#experimental-folk

#experimental-folk

With runtime no longer limited to two sides of a vinyl record, musicians weren't forced to leave bonus tracks on the cutting room floor or debate stuffing songs onto a cassette tape with grainy audio. Naturally, tracklists expanded. That bloat returned in the mid-2010s during the adoption of streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. With digital streams now counting toward Billboard chart rankings, artists started unrolling tracklists like carpet runners in long hallways, inflating their odds of scoring a hit.