Soda bread ! It ' s an Irish bread made with a chemical leavener called soda instead of yeast . <| sep |> Defiance 2 American Otriad <| sep |> In 8 th grade I spent $ 2000 on steam through PayPal because I thought it would stop me when it was empty . Little fuckers . <| sep |> T ridculo mesmo . <| sep |> Consider Joanna Newsom ' s triplealbum HAVE ONE ON ME , each of the discs being roughly 3540 minutes in length with a total runtime of 2 hrs 4 mins . This could have been a double album if her only yardstick was How much music can Ishould I fit onto one release with the means currently available to me ? I think she chose to structure it like this to make it more digestible , for the same reason extravagant feasts come in courses . After countless listens , I ' ve come to really appreciate her sequencing here . Each disc balances 8 to 12 minute epics dense with sound and complex arrangement alongside shorter singles with light instrumentation for easy consumption . It would be easy to get burnt out if you had two 9 track discs , and she probably knew this , because three 6 track discs changes the whole scope of the project for the better . So you can listen to CD 1 for a couple weeks and then when it gets too familiar you can move onto the next , and then the next , and then cycle back around to the first , which by that time seems like an old comforting friend . And because each album is so perfectly calibrated , you never feel like she ' s skimping on content for the sake of a triplealbum gimmick . If you ' ve ever listened to Sandinista ! by the Clash or Double Nickels on the Dime by the Minutemen , you can hear the dip in quality as the album limps towards its conclusion , but that ' s not the case here . If you need further proof that Joanna knows what she ' s doing , look at the albums she released before and after . Ys , from 2006 , is the very definition of excess I adore it , but I am not always in the mood to listen to it front to back because it ' s a journey , and an exercise in patience and fulfillment . And yet it doesn ' t feel right to separate one track from its sisters , just like watching one set piece from the middle of a highconcept film is less satisfying than experiencing the whole thing as the director intended . But three albums on the levels of Ys would be too much , IMO . Then there ' s DIVERS , from 2015 , made up of 11 shorter songs shorter than what we ' ve come to expect from her , meaning 45 minutes that are each so rich and jampacked with sounds , motifs , themes and ideas that you can let that day ' s mood dictate how you listen . Each song is its own story but they all work together in service to concepts of time , love and death to make a unifying whole . And again , if you were to take an album of such sheer scope and volume like DIVERS and multiply it two or three times , it would be too much product to enjoy in one package . So the short answer is , it ' s all about the sum total effect , and how to reach the listener without alienating them . What is the artist trying to say with their story ? Does it help to divide it up into two or three acts ? Can you give the listeners an intermission so you don ' t lose them halfway through ? Presentation is important , or in other words , people react to the delivery as much as the message itself .