Among the multiple evils of the compact disc, the encouraging of a more-is-better mindset among the less contemplative members of the public ranks pretty high. You can put 79 minutes on a CD -- eighty-plus if you really push it -- and therefore my copy of R. Kelly’s TP2.com has a full seventy-nine minutes of music, only fifty of which were really necessary. An overfed public has made its preference for more of everything known, with the result that albums have more filler than ever and great EPs are almost unheard of. Exceptions, when we find them, remind us just how great EPs can be -- recently I got my hands on Lifter Puller’s The Entertainment and the Arts EP, which, like everything else Lifter Puller ever did, completely rules, and makes the case for a short, tight, leave-’em-hungry presentation.
