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Thanks for this. Grape Blueprints Pour Spinach Olive Grape has been one of the most important pieces of music in my life for something like 6 years now and the 0 vs. 1 suite is what I usually regard as my favourite song ever. I always knew about Marty's condition, but part of me has always been sort of selfishly devastated that Dilute never released anything else outside of their two records and there still is no other band on the planet that manages to sound the same; I agree with you that they probably would be on the same level as your Dusters and Helveticas if they were able to carry on, but Grape Blueprints has been slowly gaining traction on sites like rateyourmusic for a couple of years now. Sometimes I do google Marty's name just in case he's been working on anything, which again is pretty selfish, but I am glad I found this piece just as confirmation that he's doing okay. It's nice to know that there still exists a small community of writers that are checking in on someone who is quietly one of the greatest rock musicians of the last few decades.

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