I really wish bandcamp would be bigger. Much prefer their platform. The spotify monetization cycle is so bad for music
I also find it easy to have a library of singles that I like.
I guess some albums could tell some story about what the musician was feeling at some time, but that probably doesn’t apply for a lot of music if not most. Certainly not the music I listen to, release it one at a time or all together, makes no difference to me.
Complaining about the death of the album is one thing, but the reality is that people like listening to singles and playlists.
You mean the 9 out of 10 songs that the music label didn't push for airplay, video etc.
If you're into electronic music you can also check Bleep (by Warp records). No DRM, you download your files and play them however you want.
Making it better for musicians would likely reduce their revenues.
Bandcamp could also put more effort into recommendations based on a user's purchases, or just when viewing an artist's page. Not "we recommend this new album that is trending" but "this artist is similar to this other one" in the style that the old what.cd site had, with its massive graphed connections from one artist to another based on style (within a genre) of music.
For example you get to an album page and there's just so much crap. The album and the player should be the main focus but the player is this tiny thing relegated into a corner.