Dreams and Wakes Dreams and Wakes

Dreams and Wakes Dreams and Wakes

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Released 10/10/2025.
Duration: 4:28.

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Also released on Fondly Regard Illustrationabout 5 months, 26 days earlier.

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Circlejourney ✑ booklet commentary

Dreams and Wakes is the second track on this album that was made for UMSPAF’s Fondly Regard Illustration. This one was inspired by SelanPike’s illustration of Problem Sleuth (main character from the comic of the same name) using his final attack Sepulchritude, rendered here in the Renaissance Piéta motif.

Dreams and Wakes aims to evoke the feel of transcendence and the deific themes of the comic scene and the art piece. Why does dreamy dancepop sounds like gods and angels to me? Not sure, I just rolled with it.

I had many candidates for the penultimate track, but of my repertoire from the past 2 years, this is perhaps the track I’m proudest of, and I wanted it in my public discography.

The following commentary is properly placed on this track's main release, Fondly Regard Illustration.

Selan Pike ✑

Sepulchritude, but Pieta style

Circlejourney ✑

Problem Sleuth (the character) using Sepulchritude at the climax of Problem Sleuth (the comic) is still one of my favourite moments in any comic I've read, and I love how Selan Pike captured it here. I wanted to make a track reflecting the themes threaded through both the comic scene and the Piéta motif. Chopped samples were meant to gesture to the reality-bending intensity of the moment, while the orchestral chimes and xiao relate to the divine references. The quotes are of two of my favourite Weird Puzzle Tunes tracks - I enjoyed the chance to call back to fond early memories of UMSPAF and the first album they released after I joined, which Selan Pike incidentally also illustrated for! We've come full circle.

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Circlejourney ✑ Bandcamp credits blurb

Quotes: Kal-la-kal-la - Fractal Flowers; Grace Medley - Battle Against An Imaginary Foe

Fondly Regard Illustration

To the Cities I've Never Known

Circlejourney

Beyond

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