The girls like 'em short

"I realize the reason I like playing records (as opposed to CDs) is that they're short: they stop after 20 minutes. I want less music."
Brian Eno wrote that in his published diary "A Year With Swollen Appendices" in 1995. A quote I have never forgotten. I guess, another writing of the good ol' "quality over quantity" deal.
PJ Harvey's brand new album "White Chalk" is a fine example of this. First time I put on the LP it was on the wrong speed. It's on 45 RPM's. Don't think I've seen that before with an album.Anyways... instant positive reaction! I expected it to be good, but that it might take some getting used to. But no. Especially the title track.
Also, brave of Polly Jean to take on a new instrument, the piano, and the challenge that presented.
Hm, two Eno quotes in one post would be overdoing it, but another one seems to fit...
"If you've been doing a certain type of work for a while, you're familiar with it, you're quite accomplished at it, it's no longer clumsy. But when you start something new it is very clumsy, and it has all sorts of failures built into it; it's ugly, actually, at the beginning. But I've learned to believe, to trust that that's where interesting things come from -- from something that is somewhat cumbersome and unshapely, but strong."
And strong is exactly what "White Chalk" is.
Get's me thinking about another great - and short - album by a fantastic female artist. Nina Nastasia's "Run To Ruin". Also clocks in just over the half hour mark. Ethereal stuff, just like PJ's latest.