I'd say it could be a number of things. I've made songs that are 5+ minutes long and sometimes more but with the way I make music, I feel like length just allows for more repetition and less focus on what I'm trying to convey. Not to say I couldn't make longer tracks, but the tracks I make are more often than not meant to have an immediate push, somewhat. Along that, I tend to get bored if I work on one track for too long because I begin to lose sight of what I want the song to convey. In a lot of ways, I make the music that I hear in my head, and if it sounds like what I want, I go with it. There's rarely any cutting or shortening of tracks especially if it turns into something I really like. I tend to not worry about structure as much either because I've found that mixing together different sounds and turning them into something else is far more gratifying than going with something that is noticeably familiar. Sometimes my tracks will skip, sometimes there'll be a slow pause before something else happens. And sometimes I just add more to a track just because I want to. No real reasoning behind it in those cases.
In other cases however, I have made tracks that I had little to no idea of what I wanted to sound like. I just think of a certain sound from an instrument and try to implement that in some way. You'll sometimes hear synths, or violins, or something like that. It all really falls under the concept that I just want the albums that I make to sound like what I thought about.
That is also not to say that I won't have themed albums. I've done them a couple times.
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