{"id":1616,"date":"2016-07-08T22:45:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T13:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2016-07-08T22:45:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T13:45:21","slug":"in-praise-of-shadows-cd-1-track-10-alabaster-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=1616","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Shadows CD 1 Track 10: Alabaster &#8211; Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/272739767&amp;color=73ab43&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new Alabaster track is always an event these days, and I&#8217;m extremely glad to say that <em>Galaxy <\/em>is the track to complete the first CD. Alabaster&#8217;s production and composition have both made huge strides over the years, and this track has to be up among his very best &#8211; the energy and distinctive filtering is there as always, but here the chords and melodies really are next level.<\/p>\n<p>Some have compared the melodies to Qygen, while for me the atmosphere takes things in the Grimsoul-esque direction that I always thought he might manage. The track is distinctively his, though, and it&#8217;s a more than worthy way to end CD 1 on a beautiful, uplifting note.<\/p>\n<p>Some will have heard a preview already in my set with Shimotsukei (a sign that I expected the album to have long since released by now), and reactions in chat confirmed what I already thought &#8211; this is another top quality addition to the tracklist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Alabaster track is always an event these days, and I&#8217;m extremely glad to say that Galaxy is the track to complete the first CD. Alabaster&#8217;s production and composition have both made huge strides over the years, and this track has to be up among his very best &#8211; the energy and distinctive filtering [&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":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese","category-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","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=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}