{"id":5046,"date":"2024-09-26T21:14:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T20:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=5046"},"modified":"2024-09-26T21:14:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T20:14:56","slug":"yesterwynde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=5046","title":{"rendered":"Yesterwynde"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nightwish’s latest, Yesterwynde<\/a><\/em>, finally landed on my doormat yesterday, a rare delay from Amazon.<\/p>\n

I still buy CDs, and while I sometimes<\/em> stream music (if working and not working at home, mainly), I still like physical media the best, and I’ll reluctantly buy digital downloads<\/a>, but I like having media, so while the release was last Friday, I had to wait, like the sad old Gen-Xer I am.<\/p>\n

Paradoxically, the first thing that happened was the CD went into the computer to get ripped. FLACs for home and phone, MP3s for the car, but if I fuck up my music again, even if Google Drive fails me<\/a>, I have media, and if my chosen music falls foul of a streaming licence, I still have it.<\/p>\n

As is the way these days, the album has been heavily teased on Youtube, which led me to pre-order back in April.<\/p>\n

The album itself? Well, if certain people hear it they’ll shake their head and say how I rubbish prog, because despite the symphonic metal base it’s, well, proggy. It’s concept album territory here, even though there’s a couple of tracks that stand out as singles (like Perfume of the Timeless<\/em>). This shouldn’t be a surprise given previous work- the album is stated to form a trilogy with Endless Forms Most Beautiful<\/em> and Human||Nature<\/em>.<\/p>\n