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The desk reads your record

one line · written first · you pay only to publish

What listeners have already written about your release is in the diary, free, one part of the song at a time. The desk is for the record nobody has written about yet.

The desk writes one line about your record in the house voice: lowercase, deadpan, a reference the writer would understand, about one element of your record. It is not a review and it is not flattery. A line like that is tweetable, and people believe it — because this house doesn't flatter anyone, and every take is shown with its song, one tap away.

how it works

  1. Leave the record (form below). No payment, no account. In your own Discord, the same desk answers /desk link: email: — and when you publish, the stamped card lands in that channel, in front of the people who were already there.
  2. The desk writes the read and sends it to you privately. Nobody else sees it.
  3. If you want it public, it runs: a stamped card on the wall for a day, a permanent take page with the preview wired in, and a share card built for posting. That's when you pay — after you've read it.

the rules — read them, they protect you too

  • The read is the read. No edits, no rewrites, no notes to the writer. The moment a buyer can shape the line, the line is worth nothing — yours included.
  • You hold the kill-switch. Don't publish, and the read stays between you and the desk forever. (You'll be refunded the $0 you paid.)
  • Paid reads never enter the corpus. They don't train the voice, don't file as wall takes, don't earn signal. The wall stays honest; your card says what it is.
  • Every paid card is stamped as an ad. House law, no exceptions.
  • The desk declines records it has nothing true to say about.

the rate

$25 a single · $75 an EP (three reads). Intro pricing, paid only on publish.

pilot: the first five records read free — the desk is collecting receipts.

publish a single · $25an EP · $75album press kit · $199

listeners may already have written about your records — find yours in the diary

leave the record

reads are in the house voice · lowercase · one line · the wall itself stays free · questions ride along in the notes field

the desk’s drawers · the press · the hat · classifieds · payouts · the annex