I was doing this a lot when I was using the fourtrack and burning CDs at home. A large handful of really short tracks on a 20 minute CD, half of them noisy instrumentals and half of them folky vocal songs. It’s a fun format. It suits my music. But it doesn’t really work if you want to do bulk runs or promote the disc commercially.
Also, once I decided I was going to try and promote my music commercially, I started wondering what I should do with all the weird, quick, noisy experimental stuff.
I’m going to do the Belle and Sebastian thing. They had a habit of releasing EPs in between all of their proper albums. I’m recording enough these days to do that. So I’ll be “releasing” a new 8-song, 20 minute EP in May. It will likely only be available on my websites and at shows. I am also working on a new full-length, which is likely to come out late this summer. That one will be available everywhere possible.