{"id":1582,"date":"2016-06-25T18:21:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T09:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2016-06-25T18:21:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T09:21:16","slug":"in-praise-of-shadows-update-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=1582","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Shadows &#8211; Update 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a small heap of posts at the moment that are either half-written or on the to-do list, but right now what&#8217;s most pressing is <em>I<\/em><em>n Praise of Shadows<\/em> news. Obviously delays have struck again, this time at the last possible moment before the CD manufacturing &#8211; it&#8217;s hard not to feel the frustration as deadlines merrily come and go, but these experiences will definitely stand me in good stead should a second release ever happen.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, the final product is almost certainly going to be worth the wait. It&#8217;s already feeling very unified, from the art and graphics to the tracks themselves, and I&#8217;m even satisfied with CD2&#8217;s mix &#8211; it has been a regular commuting soundtrack since February, probably a sign that it&#8217;s one of my better efforts over the past couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>Of more interest to everyone will be the unmixed tracks, and to finally make things more public I&#8217;ve decided to start uploading previews from this weekend. Starting tomorrow, I&#8217;ll add a track each day, giving you a chance to check each one out while we wait. At the end of that process I&#8217;m pretty confident that the album will be at, or close to, the manufacturing stage, and will then be available to order next month.<\/p>\n<p>Most people will already know that the first track is Proteus&#8217; <em>Monochrome, <\/em>but we&#8217;ve since decided on an improved master that honestly improves it a lot. The track structure itself is unchanged, so it might be nice to have track 2&#8217;s preview ready to hear tomorrow, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, to coincide with the previews there&#8217;ll be some logo action happening, incorporating a little preview of the album artwork. Hope that&#8217;s enough of a silver lining for now, and that everyone enjoys the Lucky Lotus set later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a small heap of posts at the moment that are either half-written or on the to-do list, but right now what&#8217;s most pressing is In Praise of Shadows news. Obviously delays have struck again, this time at the last possible moment before the CD manufacturing &#8211; it&#8217;s hard not to feel the frustration as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}