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by sonja berlin-jones

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SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER

oh this is a good one - it really is. It is very simple. And because it is so simple it is very obviously not very original. People were doing this kind of thing in the 1960s. But in a much worse way than this. And anyway - who is doing anything original ? I hear about eighty new-to-me albums every day and haven't heard an original five seconds in years.

Muddy drones and muddy noise and muddy rock - it's all muddy shit. I don't want to be a part of that. I don't want to make any more dozy field recordings of fields or cafes. I don't want to learn how crappy software works that already gives me the drums and the notes and the tunes and the song and the end-product before I've even begun.

I don't want to still be in a group twenty years after it started - to be in my own tribute band I don't want to be part of any scene where all the inbred music is shit and you have to say everyone's shit is good so they'll say your shit is good. I don't want to be a loner genius with no one telling me my shit is genius.

I don't want to pretend to be doing something original when I can see it in their eyes - everyone knows it's the same dull derivative shit that they're doing too. I don't want to sit on a tiny stage with a laptop making tedious droning noises for 45 bum-gumming minutes.

I don't want to make pop music when every tune was used up thirty years ago and everything today is so shit and no one knows what's possible any more. I don't want to carry on pretending this shit is "experimental" when there's no experimenting.

I don't want to make noise and call it experimental. Or any other tag that is so safe and predictable. I don't want to make music. I don't want to network and talk to twats whose music's even shittier than mine.

I don't want to be on Bandcamp and do all the stuff the Youtubes advise me to do to get ahead - same "ahead" that everyone else is at. I don't want to do a tasteful sef-consciously eccentric Vimeo that took nine Nathan Barleys six months to make and gets nine views in a year. Or nine million.

What's the difference ? The more people who like you - the more pressure to keep on pleasing them. I don't want to get my kicks c/o the trajectory of a graph. I want to find one brief fantastic beautiful moment and take it and make it last for as long as Bandcamp will allow - 28 minutes.

Because the beautiful brief moments are strong enough to be heard over and over for 28 minutes and all day and all lifetime - I am still in love with the brief pop moments I loved when young. And will love those moments when I'm dying. Better that than muddy overdoses of noise & guitardrumbang & wackiness and calling it experimenting and I want punk bloody rawk and to stop being a cunt.

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released November 25, 2012

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