listening to singles is inevitable, you're bound to listen to singles, but... for the most part... they're overrated anyway... i found that i have a much larger attention span to digest three songs worth 3 minutes a pop, i'd rather stick to the progressive rock / jazz quartet / quintet behemoth of... say... 9 to 12 minutes... just like i found with the valley of the sun EP... for me EP is the way forward... because it fits in nicely between a single and an LP... it just tickles the atmospheric feel of an LP, but offers you so much more than what the single is... a footnote, a snippet... an erosion of the mind... with the valley of the sun EP? the last track... butch... and i don't mean lesbian butch... i mean - butch... grizzly butch... but that's the beauty of the EP... it's a generous sample... 3 minutes turn into ~30 minutes... the last track summarizes the whole pouch of sounds... but you only think this, because you think the last track will be something mellow... like the lullaby track on dry **** logic's debut the darker side of nonsense... goodnight... most last LP tracks are fadeout... or thereabouts... but an EP last track? a absolute corker... riding and dunes?! come on... but you don't appreciate listening to this one track... the idea is to listen to the EP back-to-back, and let the last track surprise you... that's what's great about an EP... the element of surprise... and the variations throughout... with singles you have to pack in several... have a playlist and what not... a ******* carousel a carnival of too much variety... and it's like watching American football... but instead... you know... you're listening to this constant... stuttering... there's no smoothness of either an EP or an LP... stop, scrum, shuffle... throw ball back, throw ball forward... one lucky ***** catches the ball... runs on... or doesn't catch the ball... ball hits the ground... repeat... eh... singles are overrated... obviously it's inevitable that you'll come across them... but i hope the EP makes a comeback... if it hasn't done so already, at least for me it has.