https://mochalab.bandcamp.com/album/the-lost-fairy-a-fairypunktale
Yes, the insanely exciting conclusion to the Fairypunk series is out now! It’s got notes! And sounds! And troubled people being troubled! And singers singing all the notes really loud except when they sing them soft! The only thing this album doesn’t like is your breath. It wants to take it away. It loves when you’re shook. And dead. And it loves your tears. I wishes it can have them. Maybe it will.
For me, personally, it’s the very last song that does it, believe it or not. It’s the last song when all the hubbub is over that gets me. But hey, maybe you want to be rocked and bopped. Prepare for the bopping. There’s an assault of bopping. Except when it’s pretty and wants to pet you. Softly. Softly pet you like its little kitty. Until the bopping comes. Pet and bop until you beg for mercy, that is what this album wants from you. It wants to change your narrative. It will. Do not fight it. It doesn’t like when you fight it.
Also with 30% more Han Mi.
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Fantastic work as always. It was great to hear a musical theme for the dwarves after learning about them from the New Albion Podcast.
I noticed a sitar instrument playing when the singularity was mentioned. It seems like sitar sounds somehow represent a post-cyberpunk era.
I am eager to listen to Paul’s Tentacle Porn Synthwave album. 🙂
https://steampunkopera.wordpress.com/2019/04/20/the-pixelwayve-online-store/
After giving it some thought, I realized the narrator in the Steampunk Opera was the real bad guy/gal all along. She caused Annabelle to resurrect Jaspar and led to the events of New Albion getting destroyed.
Fantastic work as always. It was great to hear a musical theme for the dwarves after learning about them from the New Albion Podcast.
I noticed a sitar instrument playing when the singularity was mentioned. It seems like sitar sounds somehow represent a post-cyberpunk era.
I am eager to listen to Paul’s Tentacle Porn Synthwave album. 🙂
https://steampunkopera.wordpress.com/2019/04/20/the-pixelwayve-online-store/
After giving it some thought, I realized the narrator in the Steampunk Opera was the real bad guy/gal all along. She caused Annabelle to resurrect Jaspar and led to the events of New Albion getting destroyed.
Ah, I see the album broke your brain too. I’ve taken to calling it “the Infinity War of New Albion.” The only thing I wish is that I could have heard a duel of the dogs.
Ah, I see the album broke your brain too. I’ve taken to calling it “the Infinity War of New Albion.” The only thing I wish is that I could have heard a duel of the dogs.
I just listened to it and I can’t stop crying – and not just because of the throwback to Priscilla. So, first and foremost, thanks for all the wonderful music (and I’m absolutely in awe at how you manage to combine this much self-referentiality with each new album still feeling distinct and fresh) and now I’m just going to ramble a bit at this comment form to help myself process the experience.
You know, wtf does it say about where we’re headed when the only happy ending we can even imagine consists in literally leaving the world behind?
A very conveniently-timed singularity and the ultima ratio of the narrator self-inserting to get there might just work out en abyme but it breaks the narrative for us out here: at that point the narration has given up trying to shape anything and resigned itself to escapism.
Like, that’s the tragedy, isn’t it? We can imagine Han Mi and Raven to come up with something, we can be convinced of our certainty that narration should be able to influence the narrative, but at the end of the day we can’t exactly destabilize a fascist with a gun into polysemic nirvana.
Awesome, maybe we manage to narrate our way into some kind of truce with the Mayor and avoid having the Blood Red Dogs called on us – hah, remember when sad love and Connor were the total extent of our worries – but this only means that the real fascists will then get us anyhow, over the Mayor’s dead body if need be. It’s fucking depressing.
Next week, there’s a trans pride where I live and some of the kids will be performing a choreography wearing giant fairy wings.
What stories can we tell to keep them safe? “You cannot have it” and pray that nobody notices how hollow that line rings when there’s Cascadias out there?
I just don’t know.
I just listened to it and I can’t stop crying – and not just because of the throwback to Priscilla. So, first and foremost, thanks for all the wonderful music (and I’m absolutely in awe at how you manage to combine this much self-referentiality with each new album still feeling distinct and fresh) and now I’m just going to ramble a bit at this comment form to help myself process the experience.
You know, wtf does it say about where we’re headed when the only happy ending we can even imagine consists in literally leaving the world behind?
A very conveniently-timed singularity and the ultima ratio of the narrator self-inserting to get there might just work out en abyme but it breaks the narrative for us out here: at that point the narration has given up trying to shape anything and resigned itself to escapism.
Like, that’s the tragedy, isn’t it? We can imagine Han Mi and Raven to come up with something, we can be convinced of our certainty that narration should be able to influence the narrative, but at the end of the day we can’t exactly destabilize a fascist with a gun into polysemic nirvana.
Awesome, maybe we manage to narrate our way into some kind of truce with the Mayor and avoid having the Blood Red Dogs called on us – hah, remember when sad love and Connor were the total extent of our worries – but this only means that the real fascists will then get us anyhow, over the Mayor’s dead body if need be. It’s fucking depressing.
Next week, there’s a trans pride where I live and some of the kids will be performing a choreography wearing giant fairy wings.
What stories can we tell to keep them safe? “You cannot have it” and pray that nobody notices how hollow that line rings when there’s Cascadias out there?
I just don’t know.