An album that could've used a couple of those breaks was the August Greene album. There was and is a ton to like on that album but it was almost *too* consistent. Almost sounded like one long song some of the time.
>When albums have this split-personality I tend to look at the >songs that don't fit the strict overall narrative as breaks or >sidebars from the main thematic flow. I mean, it's cool if >every song can fit within a story arc but I'm not mad if >there's a few songs that step outside and exist on their own >(this is the Book of Ryan, but meanwhile..."I got the summer >on lock").