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Released 12/6/2025.
Duration: 2:14.

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Tracks that Cure For What Ails You references:

• Cure For What Ails You [Demo 3] by Rainy and dbnet18

Artist commentary for Cure For What Ails You:

Rainy ✑ YouTube description

As you can probably tell, Cure for What Ails You is yet another collab between me and the illustrious dbnet. As those who’ve read my previous commentaries might be aware, I wanted to collab with them on the track “Occult Hymns”, but it fell through because of scheduling issues. As an attempt to make up for that, I reached out to him to help develop a sketch I had written on piano. The idea I initially had for the track was that it would be a song related to the harbingers/mirthamaniacs given the whimsical carnival sound of the sketch. However, I was on a bit of a secondary character kick after reading SBB and decided it would be more interesting to do tracks for characters who don’t have that much music. As a character, Cadlys is interesting because he plays around with the ideas of masks and personae; I find this compelling and am looking forward to seeing how it develops further in the comic. In terms of the writing process, this song came together in a very similar way to “By My Blade”. After sending dbnet my initial sketch, they wrote the main harpsichord riff that you can hear throughout the track as well as a melody I would modify for the b-section. Once we had both of our respective ideas down, I took the lead and arranged a draft version of the song. Based on what we had already, I decided that an orchestral direction in the vein of “Some Kind of Alien” by Toby Fox would work best. I fleshed out the ideas that we had; I added percussion, backing instrumentation, as well as new sections based on the work we had already done. My most notable inclusion is probably the various tempo changes that you hear throughout. To wrap things up, dbnet gave the song a final arrangement pass with an orchestral library in addition to mixing and mastering. Overall, I’m happy with how this song came together. I think the final product manages to coalesce our styles into something more cohesive than By My Blade.

dbnet18 ✑ YouTube description

It was a big honor to work on Cure for What Ails You with Rainy! I always enjoy working with their ideas, they definitely come up with bangin' tunes. As Rainy said, this came about due to not being able to collab on Occult Hymns (sorry!!).
Upon hearing it, I thought it needed some orchestral magic. At the time, I was experimenting with the capabilities of EWQL's Opus orchestral libraries, so when Rainy reached out to collab I thought 'perfect!'. It mostly uses stuff from the EWQL Symphonic Gold libraries, as well as the Solo Violinist library. It was definitely a fun challenge to work on my orchestral mixing as well as figuring out the weird quirks that EWQL and FL Studio has when writing songs that are "between" keys (The entire song is tuned up by 25 cents so EWQL has a mini meltdown about it lol).
The first draft I got was the main melody you hear in the song played on harpsichord, to which I wrote the intro to the track based ont that, and it all came together bit after bit through the power of determination collaboration! I mostly arranged Rainy's ideas after that initial back and forth, and it became what you hear! Overall, I'm happy with how this track ended up coming out despite all the little quirks I ran into. It has a early Toby Fox/Yoko Shimomura charm that I haven't been able to replicate in my mixing again since. Thanks once again to Rainy! You rock!!