Sentence examples for long album from inspiring English sources

"He made that very clear to the label that he wasn't going to tour or do any kind of ridiculously long album promotion," he said in January.

Pete Fornatale, a disc jockey who helped usher in a musical alternative to Top 40 AM radio in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s, presenting progressive rock and long album tracks that AM stations wouldn't touch and helping to give WNEW a major presence on the still-young FM dial, died on Thursday in Manhattan.

That said, by comparison with its strong opening and ending, there's a distinct sag in the middle – More Light is a very long album – and Bobby Gillespie's lyrics still read like he's been playing with his urban apocalypse fridge magnets: no one else could sing "Police station crackhouse zombies" with a straight face.

The boundary between composition and improvisation is never blurrier than with Mr. Shipp, the pianist, and his trio of piano, bass and violin; I had heard the band's dark, slow, sweeping, abstract and volatile music quite a bit on record and was still taken aback to hear it replicate long album tracks pretty much as I remembered them.

As is inevitable on a 92-minute long album, there are a couple of longueurs, not least the lumbering Shadows of the Valley, but for the most part, The Book of Souls is marked by a impressive rawness that scratches against the album's more grandiloquent moments.

It's easy to try and trim away the perceived fat of a long album, but Drake made the album he wanted to make, not necessarily the one that would be the most commercially viable.

"Big, long albums don't seem to be what everybody wants these days," she told Billboard in February.

They're at 54 with Afterlife, the climax of their very good, if perhaps over-long album Reflektor.

Why you should listen: The prolific garage-rocker unleashes an almost hour-long album of gauzy, slightly sunny tracks that veer across genres but hold together well.

The pancreatic cancer that took Hicks's life had already been diagnosed before he finished Arizona Bay, an hour-long album that was originally released posthumously in 1997 and gets an expanded rerelease on Friday.

In expecting listeners to pay attention, Newsom is staking a claim not just for herself but for her chosen form: she sees no reason that an hour-long album shouldn't be as engrossing, or as enriching, as an hour-long cable television show.