A bit like 'pay what you want' - this is a band that has the prior cred and prior revenue to experiment pretty much however they damn well please. Other thread

A bit like 'pay what you want' - this is a band that has the prior cred and prior revenue to experiment pretty much however they damn well please. Other threads around me point out the cons: albums are cornerstones of artists' careers, fantastic creative canvases, and so on. But in a future when we're streaming, not owning, our music, and where the album is already dead (unpackaged by iTunes), there is arguably a future where music is released as a steady, no-rush stream of quality tracks that then get remixed and mashed up by listeners, and placed into the totally unique and possibly more meaningful context of the user's own playlists ("albums"). Like fanfic circulating around publishing, people will put together and share suggested album-like playlists anyway, perhaps even giving them their own 'album titles'. Wisdom of the crowd principle suggests these might be even better ordered and contextualised and thus increase the popularity of the tracks within to broadened audience, driving 'airplay' and perhaps ownership