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shrinkflation

by Simon Aulman

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rag hollow 02:29
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oath-nodded gardener 01:55
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an old gentleman relaxing 02:04
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grey from a solid home 01:28
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tall folio 01:56
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one of those rickety lololofi creaky quiet things that might greatly appeal to a very few people, and have no appeal to almost everyone else, or absolutely no one else at all and I think I'm getting my double-negatives in a twist. But - well - I like this sort of thing -

- best played quietly -

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I think I've finally realised where I and my delightful musical career have been going wrong these last ten years and 500-plus albums on Bandcamp plus the eighty years and million albums before Bandcamp existed - it's taken all this time and heartbreak to get the message that my abject failure in all of life and the reason why everyone else is living such wonderful fulfilling happy lives full of fascinating holidays and shopping expeditions and euphoria-inducing new technology and families who all think each other are totally amazing cunts .... the reason I've been on my own Path Of Embarrassing Luddite Failure is because my albums have been too long. This is yet another album that was meant to be about 30 tracks and 80 minutes and designed to pretty much leave every listener dead of tedium after about the 6th track.

So I've solved the problem by making it only 5 tracks long. I think all future albums should be five tracks or fewer, less than ten minutes in total. Let's see how this pans out. I do feel on the edge of something positive. In this latest bout of overproduction I've actually gained a couple of followers. That's unusual. I usually lose followers during my productive phases, and only gain them during my fallow periods. That really is true. As I've theorised so many times before, I think the reason for this maybe-seemingly-counterintuitive phenomenon is simply that people don't like being reminded that you are still alive and still pestering them with new product which they might feel "obliged" to keep up with when really we are all only truly close to happiness when we live in a world of zero change, with nothing new to have to get used to.

For example - I would say I'm a huge Peter Hammill fan. And yet I can go months, possibly years, without ever giving him a thought, no one I know ever reminds me of his existence (I don't move in cool musical circles or have any friends who are remotely "interested" in music) - and so when I do suddenly think about him it is fondly - I haven't bought any of his music for literally decades, I kind-of gave up with him once he really started the non-stop shouting in the early 80s, and yes I will probably now have to google him after writing this paragraph, but the truth is that I'm really not sure if he's still alive - how would I have ever heard that he'd died ? - his death isn't likely to've been announced on LBC, and none of my friends have ever heard of him, so they'd not tell me - and I do take comfort from the fact that my friends have heard of me but not heard of Peter Hammill - so Peter's funeral director might think I am a total musical Nobody, but to my friends I am quite famous - too famous - they often wish I'd shut up - and Peter Hammill is that Musical Nobody who might still be alive and is doing himself a favour to me by never bothering me as we walk to the steeple, where the people/are/so/inquisitive, and we'd make it to the corner store and buy a hoard of shrunken groceries.

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recorded yesterday, photo from the WW2 airfield on Beaulieu Heath day before yesterday

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released January 20, 2024

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