Editor’s Letter – Mar/Apr 2022

Magazines are by their nature slow content. They are slowly curated and slowly consumed. They are outliers of a media and social universe that is fuelled by speed (not that kind of speed – although sometimes it might well be the case). Instant updates, instant opinions, instant opinions about other people’s instant opinions and so and so further into the monetised dopamine-sparking spiral. If it takes us a couple of months to curate an issue, our medium doesn’t really fit into this world. But to be honest I think that’s a convenient cop-out for myself.

Given how I personally respond to a morning scroll down LinkedIn and the different sides of different debates, some of which are driving a chasm between groups of people, I really don’t have the mental capacity to write something off the cuff that takes into account all of the variables and nuances of a situation and herald it as a definitive point. So I won’t. In this vein though, we will do the opposite and celebrate the power of time and letting things form over years.

This issue’s interview with Tim Finn is a wonderful example of this. Not only do we get to reflect on the audacity of his journey, but we get to see the creation of new work that has a temporal connection to music created almost 50 years ago. Maybe there sometimes doesn’t need to be a hurry to put something meaningful out into the world.