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Back in the day (which, I can't quite say) I imagined an album was to a single as a novel was to a short story; an interconnected set of smaller movements thematically arranged into a longer work greater than the sum of its parts. Singles felt like a little fragment of the whole thrown out into the world in order to tempt the audience to engage with the musicians' larger vision. Not all of them, of course, but the ones that stay with me. Then again I sat through Tubular Bells and Animals and a few other albums that didn't even bother with track breaks, so I'm probably an outlier too.