Fnurgled is here.

Well, I can now go ahead and make the announcement that has probably been chinese whispers for some time: Fnurgled, my first collection of songs, is in pre-release, aka available at CafePress.

Boasting a gestation period that would make the vet in the elephants' enclosure at London Zoo more than a tad concerned, it's what I consider to be the highlights of the last year's output.

"So," you might say: "I've heard it all before. What's new here?"

On one level, nothing. Yes, all the tracks are tracks that I inflicted on you at one point or another.

On another level, plenty.

Some of the tracks have been remixed - others have had the vocals retouched or even redone; and they've all been mastered for CD. Beautifully, I might add - and it's the first time since started making music that I've dared to relinquish creative control.

A word about that mastering: it's pulled together a disparate collection of sounds into songs that have become finished objects of a quality I couldn't have dreamed of, and done the same for the album as a whole.

You know how you can get a bit sick of the sound of your own songs sometimes? Perhaps not? Well, I certainly do. But this collection, lushly mastered as it is, is a non-stop on my iPod - listened to at times with a "is this really me?" proud disbelief.

So - the track listing:

i wish i was a theremin
Lucky You
Camoflage
Wait For Me
The Same Way Too
Rain In The Summertime
Everything Has A Price
Guilty
Hey, You!
Take Me Away
Song For The Lost
Spun Out
Waiting
Morning After

Availability? Right now, like I said, at CafePress. It's also available in my artist store for the comforting, round-number price of ten English pounds: I shall be getting stock in soon for personal delivery!

Later? CD Baby. After that, iTunes, etc. Then, the world shall be mine.

Watch this space. And, er... don't forget the rest of the merchandise.