Verbal diarrhea?

I just submitted a record review to the Washington City Paper. Their guidelines recommend a length of 700 to 2,000 words for music reviews. With a title and a byline, I managed to eek out 798 words, and that after stretching to find something negative about the record just to contradict the New York Times. Who in their right mind could write 2,000 words about a CD?! No recording, good or otherwise, needs to have that much written about it. The better the record, the less commentary it should need, and one can take this argument to its logical extreme and say that a truly great album needs nothing at all -- the music stands on its own 100%. That's pushing it, I realize. We are creatures of analogy and similarity, and even a sublime album could benefit from a few words about roughly what the listener should expect, in general terms. But 2,000 words?! Give me a break.