jobber skald by Simon Aulman

Noise album that's pretty quiet and pretty slow and probably not really a noise album at all, if played quietly it probably sounds a bit like Status Quo or something. If it was a noise album then I would now be forced to again write my long Noise Theory essay that I used to write once a week many decades ago in fanzines mercifully forgotten - one reason old people are happier than young people is that we did all our biggest mistakes before the internet was around to pixellate every bum-scratch for all eternity.

Mainly my weekly ten million words would amount to "I love noise, but I'm glad I don't have to listen to it" - all typed out while playing my favourite Minnie Riperton album over and over. Nowadays I've trapped myself into the Bandcamp algorithm of never being exposed to new noise albums. Maybe I'm past that stage now. It used to feel like an end-point, and a very good one. But I obviously bounced back and the longer this goes on the more I realise that pop is the god, the hardest of all musics to do well.

Not only do I feel lucky to have done all my most naked ravings before the internet was around, but I also feel lucky to still be around now, alongside the internet, churning stuff out that might only disappear when the sun engulfs the sky - if you're reading this in 3057 AD then let me tell you that I think I know how things are for you, much as they are for us now, over a thousand years ago, we're scrabbling about worrying over things of such hilarious triviality - like whether I've been a bit over-optimistic in putting this album out and thinking it'll change anything, of course it won't, but I did quite enjoy making it, and it was a good reminder that albums like this are harder to make than expected, I should've tried harder, I might try that next time.

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recorded today and yesterday, mostly stuff on this album is presented in "real time" - except for one or two obvious "locked-groove" loopy moments - photo-art-cover-dalala by me