unembarrassedly suburban by Simon Aulman

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Yes that is our back garden. I don't think Brian Eno or Julian Cope would like it. My previous album was the best thing I have ever done since I got a computer. It was also my first album since getting a computer that was made using a microphone and a real instrument. I had forgotten how easy it is and how much better it is to use microphones and real instruments.. And that it is the only way to make music that can possibly sound better after repeated listens. Like most prolific people, I am incredibly lazy. It's one of life's paradoxes - the more you do, the less effort it all takes. I was frightened that by going acoustic I'd need to "work" for hours and hours to get just one hour of music. But now I have been reminded that this kind of music can be just as lazy as the computerised noise and shit that I've been churning out for these last few years. This music is way lazier than the cassette-y stuff I did on lounge carpets in the previous century. And please remember that I always use the word "lazy" in its most complimentary sense - it is one of the highest musical accolades. I am a luddite - and laziness fights naturally and easily and indomitably against all the ugly complex clever-clever strugglings for "progress"