MESHMASS are stunned and proud, like sleepless parents blinking in the savage light of a too-early dawn. their new outspring, a fat collection of 5 long pieces, every one of them over 15 minutes and one longer than half an hour, is now available on bandcamp for mere money. who could resist the warm leatherette and tinted windows? the peeling chrome? the distant sound of thunder? 5 long pieces and all from 2012 (they claim). one of them features the sound of weddel's penguins. one of them a portuguese cowherd. no i did not call you a coward, just be quiet. the collection is called (in typically snappy fashion) 'selected longer pieces' for the reason that all the tracks have been selected, and are longer (longer than short ones, for example). but one thing still worries me, and that is why they are pieces, or what they are pieces of. because if they are pieces that implies that there is something EVEN LONGER which must contain them all..... oh. of course. they are pieces of the mass.

it is a crisis. everyone tells me. even the boy chancellor. so dreadful has it become that MESHMASS have split, due to what they describe as 'physical differences'. these may be that richard is very tall and peter rather fat. or it may be that half of MESHMASS has left the country. the result of that is that there is no longer any meshmass to be unrolled monthly and applied to sore patches. SO. instead we proudly announce the release of 'selected longer pieces', a thrillingly-titled compilation of (errr) selected longer pieces from 2012, available now on bandcamp. in strangely related news peter pick has posted a song called 'slack bay' on bandcamp under his own name, and threatens to post more unless you offer him money, which, clearly, you will not.