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‘The Scapegoat’ is a resigned and melancholy ditty, and one of the first I wrote relying on a droning bottom string for the song’s impetus (though the guitar is in regular tuning).

The idea of being employed on a low wage by big companies as a scapegoat for the complaining public came from Daniel Pennac’s satirical crime novel The Fairy Gunmother, and is modelled on the job of his flawed and cynical hero, Benjamin Malaussènne. It correlates well with everyone’s experience of not being able ever to speak to anyone with any power to help at, say, the mobile or electricity companies. The song has lovely anti-harmonies and glockenspiel by my mate Anja, plus more celestial ones sampled from a junk-shop easy listening record.

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