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Originally Posted by purlieu
Miscellaneous is when the various algorithms on the site can't work out whether it's an album or EP or compilation (if none are tagged). Atom is so long that it got listed automatically as album.
That said there doesn't seem to be anywhere that the band have stated they are EPs, so by Discogs rules then they shouldn't be tagged as that. The Sonar link, I think, was written by the promoters. The only thing the band have called them is 'episodes'. So, technically, they shouldn't be listed as EPs.
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If you went by album versus EP rules that someone shared depending on different digital stores, all 4 EPs would be considered albums by their length. The album was clearly distinguished from these EPs in the article and Drift Songs announcement. So we know they are not albums. Spotify and 7Digital list them under EPs as well as Wiki. If they are not albums, then they are EPs.
Nine Inch Nails' Bad Witch was originally the last in a trilogy of EPs that were announced. It is 6 tracks and 30:11 in length. Trent decided to call it an album when he discovered the way EPs are shoved at the bottom on digital sites and albums have more prominent billings. Plus blogs and reviewers find albums more attractive. Bad Witch was cleary an EP until Trent decided to list it as an album.
The fact that the Drift Episodes are in the EP section on Spotify clearly shows artists/labels have a say in which section a release is placed in and not on these so-called rules Spotify have or else they would have automatically been placed in album section by their rules... yet they are in the EP section where they belong.