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diff --git a/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml b/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml index afc649dd..a99537cf 100644 --- a/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml +++ b/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml @@ -3,25 +3,25 @@ Cover Art: Nick Tucker Wallpaper Art: Nick Tucker Banner Art: Nick Tucker Banner Dimensions: 1100x203 -Wallpaper Style: +Wallpaper Style: |- opacity: 0.35; filter: grayscale(0.4); Date: June 8, 2019 Date Added: January 12, 2021 -Color: #ffec14 +Color: '#ffec14' Groups: - Unofficial MSPA Fans - Fandom URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/album/moons-of-theseus -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Home Artist: Grace Medley, SplitSuns Track Art: ricemilk Contributors: - Ucklin (vocals) - WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES (vocals, additional guitar) -Duration: 10:25 +Duration: '10:25' References: - Forever - Dawn of Man @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ References: Art Tags: Hadron Kaleido URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/home -Lyrics: +Lyrics: |- O darling, what have we become?<br>Has all been said, has all been done?<br>And after all that we’ve been through<br>Am I still me, are you still you? O darling, what is it we seek?<br>Perhaps I think myself a freak<br>Perhaps I crave a second chance<br>In the universe’s endless dance If I had a choice<br>Still I wouldn’t stay<br>Set out on a voyage for forever and a day @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Lyrics: The dawn consumed the night<br>Bathed in the sentinel’s light<br>Clinging onto that bone<br>Ready to put up a fight<br>My bone came down again<br>I threw it up to the sky<br>That was the day I knew<br>I’d never really die If I had a choice<br>Still I wouldn’t stay<br>Set out on a voyage for forever and a day Exiled from our world<br>Into parts unknown<br>Wholly unfamiliar and yet it feels like home -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>Grace Medley:</i> Moons of Theseus is an album idea we had lying around from before UnofficialMSPAFans' recent year of 0 content, and it's a project a lot of us had been looking forward to for a long time. Fitting, too, that it's named for the paradox in which every piece of an object is replaced gradually until it has nothing physically in common with its original state. The idea for Home we had back then is nothing like what you hear now. SplitSuns and I didn't know what we wanted back then, beyond "Oh hey, you want to make a tribute to Forever? Me too!" It's safe to say that little to none of that initial desire to reimagine Mobius Trip's overture has bled through into the finished product, but it's safer still to say that this song wouldn't be possible if it had been approached any other way. That's not the only thing that's changed in the meantime, either: since we initially promised to collaborate on this, we've both improved as composers and producers, and our styles have evolved, our influences are different, and the zeitgeist of what it means to be a Homestuck fan, particularly a Homestuck music fan, is practically unrecognisable. For me, making Home was one hell of an experience. I taught myself a lot of new techniques while co-writing and co-producing it, and I'm proud of it in a way I've never been proud of anything else before. Much like the song itself, I'm no longer the same weedy, slightly annoying kid who made a bunch of tracks on [[album:weird-puzzle-tunes]]. That kid couldn't dream of making something like this. Strictly speaking, I couldn't either. This was a team effort with one of the best friends I've made through UnofficialMSPAFans. So a huge thank you to SplitSuns for pushing this song to its maximum potential is in order, as is another to our two fantastic vocalists, Ucklin and WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES. I also want to thank all of the friends I've made through Homestuck music, and by extension, the comic itself. I don't think I'd still be making stuff with this project without your love, kindness, and good humour. @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Commentary: I honestly can't recall exactly when the first time Grace and I discussed our love for Forever was, or when that love transformed into making a full-blown tribute, but over the many, MANY months, our pact to realize our emotions in song finally came to fruition. This is the first time I've done such a large-scale collaboration, and it's safe to say that it exceeded all my expectations. Neither of us thought that a track tributing a three minute opener would turn into a multi-part 10:25 epic, but life tends to have ways of surprising you. It wasn't easy balancing the track's complexities, which is why I was beyond grateful to have Grace help out with organizing things. This song would not be what it is without her; it wouldn't even exist at all, really! Her skills cannot be overstated. The first components of the song were completed by Grace. She wrote and composed the lyrics for the vocal section, and produced the majority of the guitar breakdown/climax towards the end of the track. From there we planned a road map of the song's progression to link together what had been completed: an ambient intro similar to Forever, a transition to lead into the vocal section, the vocal section, another transition to lead to the climax, the climax, and then an ending. I produced the majority of the intro and first transition, with Grace providing additional production and WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES playing live guitar! My goal was to create a composition with the same sense of scale and drama as Forever while having a unique mood, playful and hopeful all at once. I produced the vocal section to match Grace's songwriting, with additional production from Grace; MINES' lo-fi strains contrasted with Ucklin's ethereal melodies very nicely, right on top of a groove I never anticipated coming out of the project. The second transition was done entirely by Grace, bridging the gap between the dance that came before and the cinematic breakdown coming after. Finally, I provided additional production on the climax and created the ending. We wanted something like, in Grace's words, "the digital-age counterpart to the end of Have a Cigar." The result was a little bit more violent than that, but it provides a thrilling conclusion to the experience all the same, jettisoning off into the Incipisphere. The varied parts of Home take you by the hand and guide you on a journey throughout time and space. It is my belief that by listening, you're taking the same journey Grace, myself, and all the other creatives involved in this album took in the process of making the project a reality. It's been a long and winding road, but I wouldn't have had it any other way. Thank you. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Traveling Artist: ndividedbyzero Contributors: @@ -68,46 +68,46 @@ References: - Wrong Or Right - Purgatory - Chain Of Prospit -Duration: 4:22 -Art Tags: Mobius Trip, Hadron Kaleido, cw: blood +Duration: '4:22' +Art Tags: 'Mobius Trip, Hadron Kaleido, cw: blood' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/traveling -Lyrics: +Lyrics: |- I see the dawn rise again<br>The radiance anew<br>I catch my breath<br>I see the world spanning out<br>Unbounded in the view<br>The limit is my home On the horizon, the waves<br>Impassible it claimed<br>I trek for a bridge<br>No matter how rough the shore<br>Lies ahead of me<br>I'll know I'll find my way On and on we tread<br>Far from where we came<br>The more our paths diverge<br>The more we stay the same The fertile fields I have roamed<br>One journey soon to end<br>I have what I need<br>Within the stalks, my cocoon<br>The nature nurtures me<br>Yet deep within, I know... And the travel never ends<br>And you want to witness all<br>And you'll witness all you can -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>ndividedbyzero:</i> The opening chords of this song were originally part of a scrapped attempt on [[track:singularity]], a song from the previous album on the bandcamp, [[album:cosmic-caretakers]]. That was the penultimate song on that album, and this is the second on this album. So in a way, they're like weird bookends. More to the point though, this song ended up as an unintentional but fortuitous continuation to the "voyage" brought up in Home, both physical and metaphysical. In literal terms the lyrics are about the crossing of humans along the Bering Strait, but another interpretation is that they're a reflection of a process all humans go through: the pursuit of a purpose, the satisfaction of completing a goal, and the perennial urge to find new things to do, new things to learn, to experience, to travel. It's a fundamental feeling, true from the dawn of you, to your last sail on the pumpkin tide. <i>Tipsy:</i> Naturally when everyone else is going for wild, creative concepts, I fall back on making it Homestuck... when I heard Cait's song it made me think of the Battlefield, and when I read the lyrics, I thought, what better thing to depict than the moment Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido look into the clouds for the first time and witness the secrets of the universe? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Unchained Artist: Kanishka Track Art: Skyplayer -Duration: 3:24 +Duration: '3:24' References: - Chain Of Prospit - The Deeper You Go - Amen, Brother URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/unchained -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>Kanishka:</i> I've always had a soft spot for Chain of Prospit with its quirky lyrics and extremely uplifting chorus, so when the time came to start working on a tribute album it didn't take me long to decide which song I'd bastardize. A departure from MTAHK's mellow sound, Unchained ended up being rather frantic and abrasive, resembling something akin to an explosive release of all the suppressed emotions that have been bottling up inside one's heart for way too long - destruction of emotional shackles, in other words. As for Skyplayer's artwork, I think it compensates for what the song might be lacking in terms of depth. Vivid 3-dimensional imagery paired with vibrant colours definitely makes it stand out from other illustrations. <i>Skyplayer:</i> Chain of Prospit has always been one of my all-time favorite Homestuck songs. Even just the title of Unchained immediately gave me visions of the Prospit Moon's broken connection to Prospit, but unlike [S] Descend, where the event is catastrophic, I wanted to depict the moon coming loose as a moment of freedom. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Dinosaur Pill Artist: Ucklin Track Art: Jas -Duration: 5:06 +Duration: '5:06' Art Tags: Mobius Trip URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/dinosaur-pill -Lyrics: +Lyrics: |- You’re awake, the line is dead<br>The wires are coiled up in your head<br>Your unexpected telegram is over Connected to a time and space<br>A trophy in a rotten case<br>That licked you on your sleeping face like Rover A fossilized remain of a foreign age<br>Try not to let it out of its gelatin cage<br>You didn't dig the bones out of some old hill<br>Just found them in a cabinet... @@ -122,24 +122,24 @@ Lyrics: You can coast, the parts that matter most<br>Are too far in to carelessly shake out<br>To fall off or fall out Look at all the Stockholm syndrome<br>Piling up in your childhood home Dinosaur Pill, you know it will<br>Expand in your brain, the water will drain<br>But it’s still there -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>Ucklin:</i> This song actually started as two separate ideas. I started the song months ago, but wasn't able to quite capture the themes that I intended, so I decided to go back to the drawing board to create what is now the chorus. I decided it was worthwhile to find a way t ocombine the two ideas because I didn't want to think of more, and the verse did capture a mood that I didn't want to get rid of. I think the resulting transitions are potentially jarring, but I feel okay with the atmosphere that creates. I wanted to make a true MTaHK koan, so I won't tell you what the song is about eaxctly. You should tell me! <i>Jas:</i> What waits in the water as it grows more and more? The soft foam of a dinosaur. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Ithaca Is Calling Artist: WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES Track Art: ricemilk -Duration: 4:13 +Duration: '4:13' Art Tags: Mobius Trip References: - Ithaca - track:sburban-jungle URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/ithaca-is-calling -Lyrics: +Lyrics: |- I spent the best years of my life waiting<br>For this moment<br>A time to call my own, a place to call my homeland It’s come here far too soon<br>I sit around my room<br>Hatching my plans and schemes I mostly leave forgotten I spent my longest nights awake wondering through the outside<br>Amused but still deranged, divided on the inside @@ -152,14 +152,14 @@ Lyrics: Oo-ee-oo<br>To get a clue<br>To run and hide<br>To laugh and cry I spent the morning hours awake writing down the lyrics<br>Resolved to get it right - to capture the true spirit Although I sing along<br>That moment now has gone<br>My heart still a restless sea where Ithaca is calling -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> Fun fact, the title track off of Michael Guy Bowman's album Ithaca was initially planned to be part of Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido. This cover is an attempt to capture what the original song might have been had it stayed on the original track listing. This is by far the most complex song I've worked on yet, I think there's like... 30 different instances of synths or instruments? At the very least? And plenty of them only end up playing for a couple seconds in the end. Regardless of all that, I had a lot of fun putting this together, and I hope I managed to capture that MTAHK vibe we all hold so close to our hearts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: The Fifth Window Artist: Jaspy Track Art: Kodar -Duration: 3:17 +Duration: '3:17' References: - The New Window - track:sburban-jungle @@ -167,15 +167,15 @@ References: - Got It? URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-fifth-window -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>Jaspy:</i> i made this song cuz the new window is cool and you know what would be cooler? adding more cool songs to it please nintendo give me animal crossing switch at e3 PLEASE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: The Return Artist: SplitSuns Track Art: nights -Duration: 6:12 +Duration: '6:12' Art Tags: Mobius Trip, Hadron Kaleido References: - The Deeper You Go @@ -190,21 +190,21 @@ References: - Forever URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-return -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>SplitSuns:</i> This song has quite the history to it! I made it back in July of 2018 for the Cool and New Music Team's "Volume 11" project, a plan to make a fan-made meme-filled image of a fake Volume 11 from the Homestuck Music Team's Bandcamp page a reality. All the songs, including a 12-hour "extended" version of Penumbra Phantasm, a rock opera made out of Michael Guy Bowman memes, and a sequel to the Baby is You, were painstakingly produced based on the ideas (and jokes) the track names suggested. Each song's length was the same as it was in the original image, and photoshopped reviews were even added on the album's page using dummy accounts! For my song (originally called "The Return of Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido") the team was planning on playing it straight and producing a medley of songs from MTaHK. I went with their idea and made a mega-mix of every song on the album, with the caveat being it had to be 6:12 long exactly! I first planned out the structure of the song on a single piano track to make sure it fit the time limit, then went back in and fleshed out all the instrumentation. I wanted it to be reminiscent of Bowman's work, with his classic guitar flourishes, but put my own spin on it all the same. The whole project kind of crystallized over the course of a single week I spent stuck to my computer 24/7, continually tweaking it to make sure the track flowed despite its disparate parts. If you're interested to find out more about its production process check out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqpcqEpMndA">this video</a>. All in all, it's a fast-paced schizophrenic redux of the highlights of MTaHK (which is to say, the whole album) that even now I'm still proud of. I'm happy to have the opportunity to put it on this amazing album! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Pumpkin Tide (Gourdian Sea Version) Artist: Ucklin Track Art: piskomil -Duration: 2:39 +Duration: '2:39' Art Tags: Mobius Trip References: Pumpkin Tide URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/pumpkin-tide-gourdian-sea-version -Lyrics: +Lyrics: |- Destroy your desk; it's useless now<br>Build yourself a fort to hide<br>Close your eyes and crawl inside<br>You're sailing on the pumpkin tide The ship you're on is yours alone<br>The wind will push your sweet, sweet ride<br>But this foreign wave just appearified<br>You're sailing on the pumpkin tide Focus on the sound of my voice<br>You are under my control<br>Obey my will or I'll bury you alive<br>And it's you who'll dig your own damned hole @@ -212,45 +212,45 @@ Lyrics: Listen to their whispering voice<br>The current where the pumpkins roam<br>You never saw a thing<br>Never saw the thing you think you saw<br>Just shadows looking for a home The door into your heart is locked<br>It's gun is buried in your mind<br>Too heavy to carry, but too huge to leave behind<br>Without it you would surely die But even that's just another lie<br>Sailing on the pumpkin tide -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>Ucklin:</i> The tambourine sound is actually a belly dancing belt with bangles... and yes, I did wear it and dance. This is an update to the version of Pumpkin Tide that I did on my iPad when I was in the hospital, recovering from my bone marrow transplant. I took some comfort in the way that the lyrics seemed to fit my experience leaving school for my treatment and being thrust into an unwanted "adventure." I wanted to keep this version pretty simple, so it's almost entirely just multitracked recordings of my acoustic instruments. I did add a touch of phased and flanged reverb because I wanted it to feel like a live performance on another world. <i>piskomil:</i> A remake of my old piece from 2013. I gave it a proper background that compliments the song. Peaceful but a bit broken up and in the process of healing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Self-Avoiding Walks Artist: Kanishka Track Art: Jas -Duration: 4:41 +Duration: '4:41' Art Tags: Mobius Trip, Hadron Kaleido References: The Deeper You Go URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/self-avoiding-walks -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>Kanishka:</i> In an attempt at making something somber and contemplative I tried to imbue The Deeper You Go motif with just a tad bit of additional mystery. Things... got out of hand at some point, resulting in whatever this is. <i>Jas:</i> With self reflection in mind this is presented on a spiral bound sketchbook, a place for wandering thoughts and discardable ideas, the entire book easily closed and abandoned. I did a bit of multimedia on this one by photographing magazine clppings and editing the beans out of them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Negligent Murmur Artist: Ucklin Track Art: piskomil -Duration: 6:29 +Duration: '6:29' Art Tags: Mobius Trip, Hadron Kaleido References: Careless Whisper URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/negligent-murmur -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>Ucklin:</i> I guess all 80s music sounds like MTaHK... <b><i>SplitSuns:</i></b> Ucklin, you are an absolute legend for making this cover. <i>piskomil:</i> With the instruction: "Something like Hadron singing passionately into a microphone while Mobius plays a weird looking saxophone, or whatever." I have set to work on this overcomplicated masterpiece, adding more and more clutter until I have reached the ultimate concert effect. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- Track: Violet and Gold Artist: Veritas Unae -Art Tags: Mobius Trip, Hadron Kaleido, BQ, WQ +Art Tags: Carapacians Contributors: - Veritas Unae (composition, lyrics) - Ucklin (additional vocals) @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ Contributors: - LizaWithAZed (lyrics) - Max Wright (additional help) Track Art: Jas, Skyplayer -Duration: 7:20 +Duration: '7:20' References: - Pumpkin Tide - No Release @@ -272,10 +272,9 @@ References: - Beta Version - Fly - How Do I Live (Bunny Back in the Box Version) -Art Tags: Carapacians URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/violet-and-gold -Lyrics: +Lyrics: |- Violet or gold<br>Violet or gold<br>From what vantage is your story told?<br>Where do you slumber while kingdoms grow old?<br>Are you revered? Are you feared?<br>Violet or gold I am the agent of golden white<br>Children of mine vow to fight the good fight<br>Watching us die for a hopeless cause<br>They take up our banner with nary a pause I am the agent of indigo black<br>Children of mine learn to watch their backs<br>Surrounded by villains on ev'ry side<br>We are the fall that comes with black king's pride @@ -295,7 +294,7 @@ Lyrics: My heart lies with the sea<br>My heart lies with the ocean It's been a long long time,<br>But I've changed for good (It's been a long long time...) -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>Veritas Unae:</i> Back in May 2012, Liza posted some lyrics to their Tumblr. I know because I went back and looked up the original post. May 21, 2012. And at the time, I knew I wanted to make something inspired by and using those lyrics. So I started working on a song... but of course, things got busy for me. Let's fast forward seven years, shall we? |