In an age of mass consumption, digital distribution, personalisation, and music playlists, you'd think that the music industry would shift their focus away from the cohesive album and instead encourage artists to release as much material as possible (even cheeky throwaways like Here's a Candle), and leave imaginative fans like The Escapist to create their own running order for the songs. Instead we see a decreasing number of songs being released at a time, and the concept of b-sides and bonus tracks rapidly becoming obsolete. I can't find any reason for this phenomenon other than possible laziness on behalf of bands, who see no reason to record additional material if they no longer have to give an incentive for people to buy their CD singles.