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  MUTE EFFIGIES SOUNDTRACKS
  This is a spin off album from “Effigies”. For years people have told me that the multi layered music we write has a soundtrack feel to it. It crossed my mind through the years to do instrumental remixes of all the Soft Hearted Scientists albums, simultaneously with the parent albums, but I then always got sidetracked diving into the next album.
  
  Working on an album usually exhausts me, and the thought of immediately revisiting it always makes me feel slightly nauseous. This time I thought I really should do it. So with sick bag in hand just in case, I worked on instrumental versions with producer Frank Naughton. It turned out to be unexpectedly enjoyable and almost effortless.
  
  Originally, this remix was made just for the listening pleasure of the band members and our friends and family, and, against massive odds, to seek placement of the instrumentals with publishers who could try to find us some soundtrack work.
  
  However, after a few playbacks, the instrumental version took on a life of its own. Unexpectedly it worked in its own right as a complete album, as a kind of (worn out cliché alert) soundtrack to an imaginary film. Sorry, but it's true.
  
  Perhaps it was just a defence mechanism, as the chances of a band of our small cult status getting music placed with TV and film production companies are very small indeed. Smaller than a Bluebottle's smartphone.
  
  So I jumped the gun with a pre-emptively bitter strike worthy of Alan Partridge, and decided that it IS a soundtrack with or without an existent film. (I can make it with our without the BBC etc.)
  
  I find it very good to listen to while driving, or relaxing on the couch stroking my cats, or cooking pasta, or strangling recidivist unrepentant allotment thieves who refuse to beg for their lives, but instead say “You ain't got the guts mate” a little too smugly (while also refusing to hand back a stolen marrow and bag of compost) and then stuffing their skins with straw to make scarecrows.
  
  It seems to work well in all these settings.
  
  I hope you will find it soundtracks your activities equally enjoyably, whether wholly lawful, or occupying the grey area of vigilante work.
  
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