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).

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avant-folk • chamber folk

(Reprise, 29:44)

10/10

"You are beautiful and you are alone"
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[First added to this chart: 06/28/2019]
Year of Release:
1970
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2,031
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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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[First added to this chart: 06/28/2019]
Year of Release:
1999
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2,392
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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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[First added to this chart: 06/28/2019]
Year of Release:
1972
Appears in:
Rank Score:
21,052
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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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[First added to this chart: 08/05/2019]
Year of Release:
2018
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Rank Score:
2,214
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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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[First added to this chart: 06/28/2019]
Year of Release:
2006
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Rank Score:
521
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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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Year of Release:
2000
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Rank Score:
9
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post-minimalism

(EMI, 29:47)

8/10
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[First added to this chart: 06/28/2019]
Year of Release:
1977
Appears in:
Rank Score:
341
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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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[First added to this chart: 08/19/2020]
Year of Release:
2008
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Rank Score:
1
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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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[First added to this chart: 05/21/2021]
Year of Release:
2011
Appears in:
Rank Score:
435
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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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[First added to this chart: 06/28/2019]
Year of Release:
1977
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1,813
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Greatest Short Releases composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
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%
Country Albums %


United States 13 65%
Mixed Nationality 1 5%
France 1 5%
Nigeria 1 5%
Italy 1 5%
United Kingdom 1 5%
Canada 1 5%
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From 03/09/2021 13:03
@DommeDamian thank you will check it out!
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