Somehow I forgot about this, and turn around to find an entire EP released last year!

BT and Christian Burns (who's sung on many BT tracks) get together and form a synthpop band called All Hail The Silence. It's real good stuff.

open.spotify.com/album/0cCYEBj

(sorry for Spotify link, I couldn't immediately find other sources)

@emanate What does EP stand for? We've seen it a few times, but I don't know that we've ever heard what it means.

@Rosemary It's a musical release term, I think a holdover from vinyl record days. Distinguishing a single track release from a slightly larger collection of tracks, usually 4-5. The larger collection is still not a full album, so it's called Extended Play, or EP.
When there's a full album of songs (I would guess over 6 tracks or 60 minutes of playtime), it becomes a Long Play, or LP.

@emanate See, we'd thought LP just meant a type of record that could hold more recording.

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@Rosemary Yeah. I think LP has just become synonymous with vinyl records, while "album" has crossed over to general use on any medium.
EP remains, for whatever reason, to mean a mini-album, much like "novella" is a word for a shorter-form novel.

@emanate Well, we'd thought of it as a specific type of vinyl record, that had completely replaced an earlier one, similar to how high-density 3½" floppy disks completely replaced the older ones.

@Rosemary Hmm, looking this up more, it's both.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LP_rec

It was a format that became the standard for albums, which then mutated into being used as a shorthand for "album".

@emanate Analog audio recording technology is fascinating.

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