Sebastian Krzyszkowiak @dos@librem.one

I can somewhat excuse #itchio for not resolving #fediverse handles with #WebFinger, effectively limiting their support to (not all) #Mastodon instances even if their reason to not do so is rather silly, but this coming out of #Valve's resourceful #Steam is just ridiculous.

Fun fact: this whole thing inspired one of my first jam games that I made for #LudumDare in 2015. In "Radio Edit" you fight to defend your artistic integrity from evil label representatives with your facemelting guitar licks 😄 /EOT

Apparently, the label decided that rock is dead and there's no place for guitar solos in popular music anymore 🙃 The whole bridge has been redone, with live drum stem replaced with drum machine across the whole track.

Let's move to another song: somewhat melancholic "Ty wiesz" was supposed to burst into an energetic bridge with guest solo by prolific guitarist Jacek Królik.

The edited version goes much further to fill the space with instruments. The most obvious are drums, but there's also plenty of electric guitar licks. Gone is Markowski’s vocals’ trademark liberal rhythmic expression, all syllables are put into their place and extended or shortened as appropriate.

It diverges more as the song goes on. The original arrangement relies almost exclusively on acoustic guitar and string quartet to set the mood, with a little touch of bass melody.

One such difference strikes already within the first seconds of intimate ballad "Wybacz mi" with how the vocals are processed.

Original first, then radio edit.

Kinda disappointed with reissue's cover artwork. It's clearly vectorized, doesn't preserve some details very well, exaggerates others and colors seem all over the place. Not so perfect.

How does it sound though? Who knows! I'd need a record player to tell you that 😂 #perfect #vinyl #shotonlibrem5

Had an unannounced guest in our yard. #birdsofmastodon