Wing It! is the eighth Album-A-Day attempt. It only managed to be 10 minutes long due to a lot of failed ideas being thrown at the title track.
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Wing It!
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Released: April 29, 2023
Composed: April 28 - April 29, 2023 Genre: Progressive Rock Length: 10:01[note] |
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Work began on the music on April 28th, 2023. Part of the inspiration for this album came from Dominion by Zopp. I planned on having the first song transition into the main track which would last around 7 minutes and then add in a few shorter songs to fill out the rest of the 20-minutes. This was not what ended up happening since I spent so much time working on the main track, testing out different ideas that ended up not working.
In the end, three tracks were made, but the total time for the album was less than 10 minutes so I quickly threw together another song to be used for the ending. This is a decision I have gone back on whether or not I regret doing. On the one hand I don't feel like it fits in with the rest of the ablum, on the other hand I do think it appropriately ends the album.
When I finished the album I was not sure what to call the main track, one of the ideas I had was calling it 'Do Not' but I ultimately did not go for this. I came up with three more names, those being 'You Will', 'Wing It!' and 'Rush' and could not decide which name to go for, so I asked one of my friends to help pick and he ultimately went for 'Wing It!'. Consequently, this ended up being the album name too. However there is evidence from one of the exports of the album that I was planning on calling the album 'Half of Eight', presumably because this was the eighth Album-A-Day attempt and only four songs were made for it.
Artwork
The album art was drawn by me in Krita, it depicts a little stick-figure in the stars with wings and a halo. If I could go back I most likely would draw something else to use as album art.
Release
Wing It! was released on April 29th, 2023 to newgrounds and Bandcamp. It was uploaded to YouTube the following day.
The title track 'Wing It!' was also released as a single to Newgrounds.
On August 19th, 2024, ten physical copies of Wing It! were made on CD, with most copies being sent to my family and friends who wanted a copy of the album. Additional album art was made for the inside of the Jewel cases used.
Front of the case. Note that the title of the album no longer includes 'Album-A-Day' |
Back of the case. |
Inside of the case. |
The inside of the case says that the album was released on 28th April, 2023 as that is the date that appears on Newgrounds, however Newgrounds uses Eastern Standard Time, going by Greenwich Mean Time the album was uploaded on April 29th, 2023.
These CDs were made via Kunaki. The tracklist on the album combines Seagulls and Wing It! into a singular track as I was unsure whether or not they would play seemlessly if they were treated as two songs.
I am not selling these CDs currently and probably never will, however if you would like your own and don't mind doing a bit of DIY you can download the album on Bandcamp for free, then you'd just need to print off the album art, burn the music to a CD and put it all together with a jewel-case.
Tracklist
Track lengths are taken from the Bandcamp release.
| No. | Title | Length |
| 1 | Seagulls [note] | 1:23 |
| 2 | Wing It! [note] | 4:47 |
| 3 | Slapstickers | 1:47 |
| 4 | The Dust Settles | 2:04 |