Cryptic crossword No 1,048

This puzzle is titled "The Difficult Second Album", since I tried to address some of the comments made about my debut puzzle but surely introduced brand new problems. I think it's much easier than my first one, but that will be up to the solvers to determine. I'll make some spoilery comments in a reply.

Thanks for the fun ConManAU - a ton of clues and lots to like! I finished with the delightful 30a (clever and fun) and also liked 9a (nho the 2nd bit of GK but smoothly done), 10a (very neat), 19a (neat), 20a (very neat), 23a (smooth), 1d (neat but I think your annotations should read (4,2), you can still add a space in the solution to correct after the fact), 3d (smooth and clean), 4d (creatively misleading indicator), 12d (neat), 14d (another annotation, should be (1-4) perhaps), 15d (very...

Thanks for the puzzle, ConMan. I streamed myself solving this at twitch.tv/contocrosswords, though I ran into technical difficulties after about an hour, so am not sure how much of it you'll be able to see. There's some lovely stuff, here - well done. My favourites are 20a, 1d, 25d, 28d.

Well done ConManAU. Some fun and interesting constructions in here. The 30a idea is cute. I liked 7a, 10a, 6d, 15d, 24d and 25d. Couple of queries in reply. Thanks. PM.