I want to spend my time getting better at music, a craft I have dedicated my life to. I have very little interest in "continuous engagement". I find it to be a distracting imposition. I want for every record to be rich and fecund enough to do that work for me.

I trust ideas that in fact allow for artists to continuously disengage and dream up something new and beautiful. That is what people remember anyway.

I should reframe that. Artists I admire are never disengaged but are perhaps engaged in something unusual, evolving at different speeds and often under explored so as to bring attention to new possibilities when they choose to engage again with a gesture.

That is very different to the incessant self promotion mode that a small group of short sighted people decided should be the way that culture operates, and also coincidentally happens to continuously enrich them almost exclusively