Greatest Short Releases by
ForegroundNoise 
A love letter to those musical journeys that are cut intentionally short.
My criteria for 'short releases' is anything that runs under the half-hour mark, a distinction I justify over traditional album/EP differentiation in the following thread:
https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=20954&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Since I spend most of my time listening to full length releases, this chart is (perhaps appropriately) extremely brief, so please feel free to recommend your favourite EPs/shorter albums before giving the chart a rating! I've extended the list to every short release I've given an 8/10+ on BEA. Others that aren't eligible as per BEA's album guidelines would include SPK - Mekano / Contakt / Slogun (1979), Yōran - Montparnasse (1981), Interpol - Interpol (2002) and Lil Ugly Mane - Uneven Compromise (2012).
- Chart updated: 06/12/2023 08:45
- (Created: 06/27/2019 22:03).
- Chart size: 20 albums.
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avant-folk • chamber folk
(Reprise, 29:44)
10/10
"You are beautiful and you are alone"
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post-rock
(Kranky, 28:36)
9/10
"'Don't get loud?' I says 'I've got every right to get loud.'
I says, 'You can't do a god damn thing about it, because I'm expressing myself in your court, and there is nothing you can do about it.
You think you're god because you have a robe and you can put people up the goddamn river for 20 years? Well you're not.'
And I left it at that"
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contemporary folk
(Island, 28:22)
9/10
"Which will you hope for?
Which can it be?
Which will you take, now
If you won't take me?"
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abstract hip hop • experimental hip hop
(Tan Cressida, 24:39)
9/10
"Flashing through the pain, depression this is not a phase
Picking out his grave, couldn't help but feel out of place"
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garage punk
(In The Red, 29:09)
9/10
"I won't stop
Until your dead
Because of voices in my head"
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emoviolence
(Witching Hour, 11:43)
9/10
"Your wife hates you
We're doing donuts on your lawn
It's hard to look good
All the time, isn't it?
Drag the bones out
Drag them, one by one
Drag the bones out
Drag them, one by one
'This wine tastes so sweet'
Well, it tastes like turpentine to me
Tastes like turpentine
Turpentine
Drag the bones out
Drag them, one by one
Drag the bones out
Drag them, one by one"
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post-minimalism
(EMI, 29:47)
8/10
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emo • experimental rock
(n/a, 21:16)
8/10
"Don't you know, you're tearing me apart
Yeah, my insides with your antique brand of clumsiness
The halls, they reek of your scent
Oh, please crawl out
And tell me where have all your buffalo gone"
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indie folk
(NMH, 24:25)
8/10
"My dream girl don't exist
At the age of five she slit her wrist
She didn't know that I'd be hanging around
So her parents buried her in the ground"
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afrobeat
(Coconut, 25:21)
8/10
"Zombie no go go, unless you tell 'em to go (zombie)
Zombie no go stop, unless you tell 'em to stop (zombie)
Zombie no go turn, unless you tell 'em to turn (zombie)
Zombie no go think, unless you tell 'em to think (zombie)"
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Greatest Short Releases composition
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1940s | 0 | 0% | |
1950s | 0 | 0% | |
1960s | 0 | 0% | |
1970s | 4 | 20% | |
1980s | 1 | 5% | |
1990s | 3 | 15% | |
2000s | 6 | 30% | |
2010s | 4 | 20% | |
2020s | 2 | 10% |
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Mount Eerie With Julie Doiron & Fred Squire | 1 | 5% | |
Luciano Cilio | 1 | 5% | |
Animal Collective | 1 | 5% | |
The Brave Little Abacus | 1 | 5% | |
Slauson Malone | 1 | 5% | |
Neutral Milk Hotel | 1 | 5% | |
Mission Of Burma | 1 | 5% | |
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@DommeDamian thank you will check it out!

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