Dear Jonnie,

I have listened to your new album many-many times, but I can’t write about it too much words, just this: perfect. (Dear reader, please click the play button below, and listen to fine Scotch electro-pop music. Owing to its mood I call it Trip Pop.) Recently I edited a playlist from new releases, and wanted to play one of your new songs, which can arouse the listeners’ curiosity. The task was no easy one, however this is a good album. (BBC6 also played songs from it.) And there are lots of added useful thing. Birnam Wood, the Hangman’s Tree and the little sculptures of characters of Beatrix Potter’s animal tales have come to my knowledge. And I have decided to read my first Shakespeare. Thanks indirectly to your new album. But I can’t enthuse over it. But there is your first album Master of None, happy happy joy joy.

Cheers,

szabo

ps: There’s an interlude, a woman leaves a message on your answering machine. She talks about a hedgehog, starts in English after switchs over to German and finally to Dutch – at least for my ears. I don’t understand. What’s the matter with that hedgehog?

Jonnie Common – Trapped in Amber, album on Song, By Toad Records (Scotland)

Hey you, ugly bastard! Have you any know about David Shrigley? Nichevo. He’s a drunken British who living in Scotland and makes all kinds of stupid artistic trash like drawings, sculptures, poems, installations, animations, and made videos for Blur and Johnny King Billy, or who the fuck. And of course why not he also makes records. For example there was a split with Thee Oh Sees, and such musicians made music for his words, and sang his silly songs as Deerhoof, Tv On The Radio, R Stevie Moore, David Byrne, Scout Niblett, Trans AM, Dirty Projectors, Max Tundra, Franz Ferdinand, Alig Fodder and more similar dumb assholes. These were released on the album Worried Noodles.

His brand new horrible, but awful album has been made with Malcolm Middleton from the luckily disbanded Arab Strap. I’m fucking happy to listen to this shit. You will suck it totally.

Next item of his illustrated toilet paper collections
Weak Messages Create Bad Situations were released recently.

Anyway, Shrigley is illegitimate godson of Rod Stewart, and honorary president of Artists with Mental Handicap Movement.