tiresias by Simon Aulman

Well I like this one very much, which isn't the same thing as saying that I think it's brilliant, because I know that it is quite unappealing, there's not much on it that other people are going to dance along to or dream away to - what I like about it is its air of not-caring-very-much - it contains tracks which in the old days I'd never have uploaded - back when I stupidly thought everything should be good - this album instead sounds like (and is) just a snapshot of a few days of sitting in a room watching the rain. There are a couple of tracks in the early part of this short album which are (I think) very poor and I almost need therapy to find the courage to keep them on the album. But I know they must stay. They are as key as all the rest of them. It's just that I've really come to love albums as imperfect as this.

I was again going to try to wait till this album was about 80 tracks long before publishing it - but I'm just back from watching The Holdovers and it's a lovely film and makes me want to change my life a bit, be a bit more reckless. And so, here it is. Yes I walked out to the cinema and back through today's big storm, Storm Lucian or Janet or Muriel sorry I can't keep up, there was hardly any wind, the rain was so light that my jumper got barely a dewy coating of dampness, but gloriously the streets were again empty, I only passed about 70 people in an hour, and only about 55 of them deliberately staggered off at an alarming angle to try to walk into me, I really do feel like the only sober undrugged person out of doors.

Yes this is a good album. I would love to put it out on something physical, and I may yet do it - I still don't have any cardboard for packaging and the stuff I pass in skips and at the backs of shops is all damp of course. This is one of those albums where you only need to hear a couple of seconds of each of about 6 of the tracks and you will get as good an idea of what the whole thing is like as you need - ie it's an album that you will feel that you know very well, even though you've only met it for 12 seconds - 12 seconds isn't long enough to get bored of an album, or a person, and this is why I think this album is such a classic and should rightly be the first to kick off your list of Albums Of The Year - it is like one of those people who you love very much but hardly know at all, because you've only met them three times and never had the chance to be bored of them - this album is on my list of lovely things, as is The Holdovers and weird calm mild quiet days like today.

recorded over the past few days, cover painting unfinished, yes I do paint stuff other than just fluffy-clouded scenic things, but this one's for a glaring empty spot on a wall that calls for such a fluffy thing.