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Farireteclucklend,
ninety concept albums

Written by Kevin Snow. In A Whorld Enterprise.

What this is

Farireteclucklend is the In A Whorld Enterprise tactical sci-fi and fantasy war game, with fairy tech that tempers the blade and psi warfare that bends it. This page holds 90 concept albums for that world, one for each of 90 different genres, from thrash metal to lullabies.

Author and studio: Kevin Snow, In A Whorld Enterprise. Every album below carries that credit.

Please note: these are concept albums and soundtrack designs. They are written ideas with titles, track lists and liner notes. No audio has been recorded or released, and there are no streams, release dates or reviews. Named characters such as Vael are invented for these concepts.

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Metal

Album 1 of 90 · Thrash metal

Edge of the Tempered Line

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

The Tempered Host drives a fast, clean push into a psi storm, every riff cut like a well-tempered blade.

  1. Hardened at Dawn
  2. Lantern Engine Overdrive
  3. Clean Cut
  4. Strike First, Strike Twice
  5. Tempered Line Holds
  6. Psi Storm Breaker
  7. No Retreat in the Orchard
  8. Bind the Engine
  9. The Front Dissolves

Liner note: Written for the first charge of a campaign, when the line is still sharp. Every song is built to be played at the speed of a strike. When the last riff stops, the field is gone.

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Album 2 of 90 · Death metal

Murmur Storm Autopsy

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

A death metal study of what a psi storm does to a unit that cannot turn its blade aside in time.

  1. Static in the Skull
  2. Bent Beyond Mercy
  3. Autopsy of a Front
  4. Murmur Harvest
  5. Fractured Edge
  6. The Unparried
  7. Anatomy of a Bent Host
  8. Rot in the Lantern Light
  9. Dissolved in Red
  10. Silence After the Storm

Liner note: Low, dense and clinical, this album follows a field surgeon through the wreckage of one lost front. It treats the storm as a force to be studied, not feared. Nothing here pretends a war is clean.

Album 3 of 90 · Black metal

The Bent Court at Midnight

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Cold, shrieking tremolo for the Bent Court, the psi lords who twist edges from beyond the fog.

  1. Crown of Curved Steel
  2. Whisper Over the Orchard
  3. Frost on the Lantern
  4. The Court Convenes
  5. Edge of Another Angle
  6. Mushroom Field Eclipse
  7. Hymn for a Bent Blade
  8. The Last Straight Line

Liner note: Recorded in the imagination of a long winter night. The Bent Court speaks here in its own voice, all reach and curve and no apology. It is the sound of an edge that cuts around cover.

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Album 4 of 90 · Doom metal

The Slow Sheathing

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

A funeral crawl for the day a whole army chooses to sheathe, and what it costs to stand down.

  1. Weight of the Scabbard
  2. Ash on the Truce Table
  3. The Blade Rests
  4. Nobody Cheered
  5. Slow Ruin of the Line
  6. What the Orchard Remembers
  7. Sheathe
  8. Long Walk Home

Liner note: Doom is the music of patience, and so is restraint. This album gives the sheathe verb the heaviest riffs in the catalog. Some wars are won by the blade that stays in its scabbard.

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Album 5 of 90 · Power metal

Lantern Knights of the Skybridge

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Soaring, major-key heroics for the Skybridge garrison guarding a hovering platform at the edge of the map.

  1. Rise of the Lantern Guard
  2. Over the Hovering Platform
  3. Sword of Quiet Light
  4. Fairy Tech Dawn
  5. Defenders of the Skybridge
  6. The Bridge Will Hold
  7. Wings Over the Front
  8. Tempered by Starlight
  9. Victory Without Blood

Liner note: Big choruses, fast double bass and a blade lifted toward the light. It is the most openly hopeful metal record in the universe. The garrison believes the bridge can hold, and the music believes them.

Album 6 of 90 · Progressive metal

Eleven Fronts Resolved

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

A long, shifting suite about one battlefield and the many fronts that must all be answered before it dissolves.

  1. Room of Many Answers
  2. Front One: The Line
  3. Front Two: The Storm
  4. Front Three: The Engine
  5. Front Four: The Truce
  6. Odd Time Parry
  7. The Edge Considers
  8. All of Them
  9. Dissolution in Seven Parts

Liner note: Time signatures change as each front is answered. The record asks the same question as the game: what happens when you resolve every choice in the room. The answer arrives as the field fades.

Album 7 of 90 · Groove metal

Mushroom Field Stomp

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Heavy, swaggering grooves for a unit that fights through a field of glowing mushrooms in the dark.

  1. Spores on the Steel
  2. Glow Walker
  3. Stomp the Orchard
  4. Heavy Is the Lantern
  5. Fungal Bend
  6. Night Shift Warden
  7. Low Light Brawl
  8. Bind and Grind
  9. Field of Pale Fire

Liner note: This is the swagger record, built on a mid-tempo chug you can march to. The field glows and the riffs hit like boots. It is the album for moving through the dark with confidence.

Album 8 of 90 · Industrial metal

Lantern Engine Foundry

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Machine-driven riffs and clanging percussion from the fairy-tech foundry where blades are tempered.

  1. Furnace of Small Lights
  2. Hammer Cycle
  3. Tempering Protocol
  4. Fairy Tech Assembly Line
  5. Steel Heart Engine
  6. Bent Wire
  7. Overheat
  8. Quench
  9. The Foundry Never Sleeps
  10. Cooling Blade

Liner note: Everything here sounds forged. Samples of hammering and hissing steam sit under the guitars. A blade comes out of the final track, and the album listens to it cool.

Album 9 of 90 · Symphonic metal

Choir of the Tempered Sky

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

A full orchestra and choir joined to heavy guitars for a grand battle over a floating citadel.

  1. Overture of the Citadel
  2. Choir of Edges
  3. Hovering Majesty
  4. The Bent Aria
  5. Tempered Sky
  6. Knights of Pale Light
  7. Strings Against the Storm
  8. Requiem for the Fallen Front
  9. Finale: The Sky Sheathes

Liner note: Written on the largest scale the universe allows. Violins and distorted guitars trade the melody, one tempering the other. The finale ends with the sky going quiet.

Rock and punk

Album 10 of 90 · Hardcore punk

No Truce Tonight

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Two minutes a song of raw anger from the shock troops who refuse every offer at the Truce Table.

  1. Refuse the Table
  2. Fast and Bent
  3. Bind This
  4. Cut the Line
  5. Zero Patience
  6. Orchard Riot
  7. Storm Kids
  8. Hands Off the Blade
  9. No Sheathe

Liner note: Short, loud and furious, with no room for a single wasted bar. The album is deliberately one-sided, a unit that cannot see why anyone would put the blade down. The records that follow answer back.

Album 11 of 90 · Post-punk

Gray Lines Over the Orchard

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Angular guitars and cold bass about a ruined orchard held by a tired garrison under gray skies.

  1. Gray Lines
  2. Fruit of a Ruined Tree
  3. Watch Rotation
  4. Orchard Static
  5. Barbed Wire Lanterns
  6. Dry Fountain
  7. Late Shift Warden
  8. Drift
  9. Winter Roll Call

Liner note: Spare, tense and a little hypnotic. Nothing explodes, and that is the point. The orchard is quiet, and the quiet is the danger.

Album 12 of 90 · Grunge

Flat Cap and Fairy Tech

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Heavy, sludgy songs from a worn-out mechanic who tunes lantern engines in a rain-soaked depot.

  1. Rain on the Depot
  2. Engine Grease Blues
  3. Tired Lantern
  4. Flannel Tempered
  5. Nobody Asked for a Hero
  6. Loud Quiet Loud
  7. Broken Wrench
  8. Fog Over the Yard
  9. Clock Out

Liner note: A grungy, unglamorous look at the people who keep the machines running. The songs are loud, then quiet, then loud again. It sounds like a shift that never quite ends.

Album 13 of 90 · Stoner rock

Spore Smoke Riff Temple

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Fuzzy, hypnotic riffs for a camp of wanderers who live and ritually jam inside a glowing mushroom grove.

  1. Smoke from the Mushroom Cap
  2. Fuzz Orchard
  3. Temple of Long Riffs
  4. Slow Bend Ritual
  5. Desert of Pale Light
  6. Pass the Lantern
  7. Third Eye Edge
  8. Sunset Truce
  9. Haze

Liner note: Sit back and let the riff repeat. The album treats psi warfare as something to meditate on, not just survive. It is fuzzy and warm, and it takes its time.

Album 14 of 90 · Shoegaze

Glass Veil Over the Front

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

A wall of soft, distorted guitar describing the shimmering psi veil that hides one front from another.

  1. Veil
  2. Glass in the Lantern Light
  3. Drown the Bridge
  4. Soft Edge
  5. Echo of the Bent Court
  6. Blur at Dawn
  7. Fade Into the Field
  8. Hum

Liner note: Layers of reverb turn the battlefield into a watercolor. You can barely tell where one sound ends and the next begins, which is how the veil works. It is gentle and a little unsettling.

Album 15 of 90 · Math rock

Fractal Tempering

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Twisting time signatures and clean, intricate guitar patterns that mimic the geometry of a blade being tempered.

  1. Seven Quench
  2. Fold and Hammer
  3. Grain of the Steel
  4. Counted Strikes
  5. Edge Theory
  6. Angle of Approach
  7. Lattice
  8. Nine Eight Parry
  9. Tempered in Fives

Liner note: Every bar is a small puzzle. The structure is the story: a blade made of repeated, precise folds. Listen for the tiny shifts where the pattern bends.

Album 16 of 90 · Surf rock

Skybridge Reverb Beach

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Twangy, sun-bright instrumentals for off-duty Skybridge crews riding gliders over a bright, imaginary shore.

  1. Glider Wave
  2. Hovering Beach Party
  3. Spring Tide Patrol
  4. Lantern Tiki
  5. Twang Over the Platform
  6. Salt and Fairy Dust
  7. Reverb Reef
  8. Off Duty
  9. Sunset Over the Bridge

Liner note: Even a war game needs a day off. This is the sound of a garrison with its boots off and its gliders waxed. Light, twangy and entirely instrumental.

Album 17 of 90 · Psychedelic rock

The Bend That Hums

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Swirling, phase-shifted jams written from inside the head of a psi operator mid-bend.

  1. Entering the Bend
  2. Colors Have Edges
  3. Sitar of the Storm
  4. Mind Like a Blade
  5. Spiral Orchard
  6. Lantern Acid Dawn
  7. Curve of Thought
  8. Return to Straight

Liner note: Trippy by design and cold-bright in color. The album sounds like the In A Whorld palette set to music, all dark blue gray with glowing patches. It ends with a slow return to a straight line.

Album 18 of 90 · Glam rock

Parade of the Polished Edge

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Swaggering, glittering anthems for a showboat unit that polishes its blades for the crowd and tempers them for the front.

  1. Polish Me Bright
  2. Rhinestone Rapier
  3. Glitter Fairy Tech
  4. Strut Across the Skybridge
  5. Crowd Love the Edge
  6. Lacquer and Lightning
  7. Boa of the Bent Court
  8. Encore Front
  9. Last Glittering Cut

Liner note: Loud, funny and proud of it. The Polished Edge is a unit that insists a war can also be a show. Underneath the sparkle, they still hold the line.

Electronic

Album 19 of 90 · Synthwave

Neon Lantern Highway

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Retro-futuristic driving music for a courier convoy running supplies down a glowing highway between fronts.

  1. Night Convoy
  2. Lantern Highway
  3. Chrome Blade Dreams
  4. Tempered Taillights
  5. Neon Orchard
  6. Courier Heart
  7. Sunrise Checkpoint
  8. Overdrive Edge
  9. Last Mile to the Front

Liner note: Pulsing arpeggios and big gated drums. The convoy never fights, but it keeps the whole war supplied. This is the soundtrack for the roads between battles.

Album 20 of 90 · Techno

Four on the Tempered Floor

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Hypnotic four on the floor loops for an underground bunker where fairy-tech engineers work all night.

  1. Bunker Open
  2. Quench Loop
  3. Engine Pulse
  4. Midnight Tempering
  5. Hi Hat Lanterns
  6. Steel Slow Build
  7. Warehouse Edge
  8. Dawn Shift
  9. Cool Down

Liner note: Built for long, repeating nights in the bunker. Each track locks into a groove and slowly changes it. A good tempering is patient, and so is good techno.

Album 21 of 90 · Drum and bass

Psi Storm Chase

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Frantic breakbeats and rolling bass for a scout racing ahead of an advancing psi storm.

  1. Outrun the Murmur
  2. Breakbeat Bridge
  3. Rolling Edge
  4. Storm Front Sprint
  5. Liquid Lantern
  6. Bend and Break
  7. Neurofunk Orchard
  8. Safe Ground
  9. Chase Resolves

Liner note: It never lets up until the chase ends. A scout, a storm and a very fast road. The last track slows down to let the scout breathe.

Album 22 of 90 · Dubstep

Bent Edge Drop

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Wobbling bass and heavy drops for the moment a bent blade strikes around a wall of cover.

  1. Wobble Warden
  2. Around the Corner
  3. Bent Edge Drop
  4. Half Time Halberd
  5. Subsonic Lantern
  6. Cover Is Not Safe
  7. Reese Orchard
  8. Drop the Wall
  9. Tail of the Storm

Liner note: Heavy, wide and playful with space. The drops arrive from unexpected angles, just like a bent edge. A good listen on a loud system.

Album 23 of 90 · Trance

Dawn Over the Hovering Platform

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Uplifting, euphoric builds for a garrison watching sunrise rise over a floating platform.

  1. Platform Sunrise
  2. Lift
  3. Euphoria of the Early Watch
  4. Supersaw Skybridge
  5. Breakdown at the Edge
  6. Lantern Glow Rising
  7. Open Sky
  8. Gate to the Day

Liner note: A long, rising record meant to be heard at dawn. Each track builds to a release and then builds again. The platform floats above the clouds and the music floats with it.

Album 24 of 90 · IDM

Glitch Garden of Small Machines

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Twitching, intricate rhythms for a garden of tiny fairy-tech machines that tend an orchard on their own.

  1. Seed Bot Waltz
  2. Micro Gear Lullaby
  3. Stuttering Petals
  4. Garden Timer
  5. Loose Screw Bloom
  6. Pollen Algorithm
  7. Rain Sensor
  8. Compost Cycle
  9. Idle Mode

Liner note: Delicate, busy and strangely tender. The machines are not soldiers, just caretakers who outlived the people who built them. The beats stutter like a mechanism learning to hum.

Album 25 of 90 · EBM

Discipline of the Tempered Host

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Stern, marching electronic body music for the strict training halls of the Tempered Host.

  1. Roll Call
  2. Mandatory Hardness
  3. Synthetic Salute
  4. Training Hall Pulse
  5. Iron Lantern
  6. Obey the Edge
  7. Parade Ground
  8. Mark Time
  9. Lights Out

Liner note: Tight drum machines and stern vocal chants. It is the sound of discipline, deliberately a little cold. The Host is not evil, only very sure of itself.

Album 26 of 90 · Vaporwave

Mall of the Dissolving Field

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Slowed-down, hazy loops that imagine a fairy-tech shopping hall frozen between two dissolved battlefields.

  1. Welcome to the Gap
  2. Escalator to Nowhere
  3. Lantern Plaza
  4. Slowed Orchard Muzak
  5. Closed for Dissolution
  6. Fountain in Reverse
  7. Between Fronts
  8. Parking Level Dream

Liner note: A pastel, empty-hall record with a distant hum. It lives in the space between fronts, when nothing is happening yet. Slow, strange and a bit eerie.

Album 27 of 90 · Breakcore

Chopped Parry

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Insanely fast, chopped breakbeats where every parry is sliced into a hundred pieces.

  1. Slice the Strike
  2. Parry Flurry
  3. Shatter Orchard
  4. Hardcore Lantern
  5. Amen Edge
  6. Broken Sheathe
  7. Blender Front
  8. Speed Bend
  9. Wreckage Resolves

Liner note: Pure chaos with perfect timing. Drums are cut into splinters and glued back together at breakneck speed. Short, ferocious and weirdly joyful.

Hip hop, soul and funk

Album 28 of 90 · Boom bap hip hop

Ink on the Truce Table

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Dusty drums and sharp rhymes from a scribe of the Truce Table who writes every accord and every broken promise.

  1. Pen and Parchment Break
  2. Terms of Surrender
  3. Loop of the Lantern
  4. Signed in Spore Ink
  5. The Clause Nobody Read
  6. Dust on the Treaty
  7. Cipher at the Border
  8. Scribe Walks Home

Liner note: A sample-heavy record in the old style, all snare and sentences. The scribe raps what the generals will not say aloud. It treats words as a second kind of blade.

Album 29 of 90 · Trap

Hovering Platform Money Talk

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Hard-hitting 808s and hi-hat rolls from the black market that trades fairy tech on the floating platforms.

  1. Black Market Lanterns
  2. Platform Plug
  3. Hi Hat Halberd
  4. Fairy Dust Ledger
  5. Slide Across the Skybridge
  6. 808 Engine
  7. Counterfeit Edge
  8. Cash and Quench
  9. Gone Before the Dissolve

Liner note: Dark, bouncy and sharp. The traders in this record sell tempering charms and bent shortcuts to anyone with coin. Every deal has an exit before the field dissolves.

Album 30 of 90 · Conscious hip hop

What a War Costs

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Thoughtful verses over live instruments about the people who carry the weight of every front.

  1. Ledger of the Fallen
  2. Teacher of the Garrison
  3. Mother at the Orchard Gate
  4. Sheathe Is Not Weak
  5. The Arithmetic of Fronts
  6. Medic Monologue
  7. Bread for the Line
  8. What We Owe the Dissolved

Liner note: The most direct record of the universe about cost. It follows the sheathe verb into everyday life and asks who pays when a front falls. The tone is calm and serious.

Album 31 of 90 · Lo-fi hip hop

Quiet Shift at the Lantern Desk

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Warm, crackly beats for the night clerk who logs every lantern engine in a sleepy depot.

  1. Tea at the Night Desk
  2. Rain on the Depot Glass
  3. Stamp and Log
  4. Cat on the Ledger
  5. Slow Lantern Hours
  6. Pencil Down
  7. Dawn Handover
  8. Lamp Off

Liner note: Gentle loops for studying, resting and watching the rain. Nothing happens, which is the gift. Even a war has a quiet desk where somebody keeps the records.

Album 32 of 90 · R&B

Slow Dance at the Skybridge Ball

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Smooth, late-night slow jams for the evening when the garrison throws a ball before a long campaign.

  1. Last Dance Before the Front
  2. Silk and Steel
  3. Lantern Light on Your Face
  4. Come Closer, Warden
  5. Slow Bend
  6. Midnight Parade
  7. Hold the Line, Hold Me
  8. Morning Orders

Liner note: Warm vocals and soft keys made for a ballroom in the sky. The record knows what the dancers are going to face. It lets them have the night anyway.

Album 33 of 90 · Neo-soul

Orchard Garden Sunday

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Jazzy, organic grooves for a Sunday meal in a rebuilt orchard where veterans share what they grew.

  1. Soil Gospel
  2. Sunday Table
  3. Seeds from the Front
  4. Peach and Pale Light
  5. Roots Remember
  6. Grandmother's Lantern
  7. Laughing at the Gate
  8. Plant Another Row

Liner note: Handmade and honest, with a loose rhythm section and soft vocals. It is the sound of peace being rebuilt one meal at a time. The orchard, once a battlefield, bears fruit again.

Album 34 of 90 · Funk

Bind the Groove

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Tight, syncopated basslines for a unit whose bind verb works like a locked groove no enemy can break.

  1. Locked In the Pocket
  2. Slap the Engine
  3. Psi Static Funk
  4. Bend the Bassline
  5. Get Down, Get Tempered
  6. Horns of the Host
  7. One Beat Parry
  8. Pin the Beat
  9. Stay on the One

Liner note: Everything hinges on the one. The unit is so tight that it pins any foe to its rhythm. Dance first, ask about tactics later.

Album 35 of 90 · Gospel

Hymns for the Bridge That Held

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Big choirs and call and response for the survivors who gather after a bridge held against all odds.

  1. The Bridge Held
  2. Thank the Lantern
  3. Choir of the Wounded
  4. Sing It Over the Water
  5. Hands Up for the Fallen
  6. Hallelujah, Sheathed
  7. Light in the Mushroom Grove
  8. Amen to the Morning

Liner note: Hands clapping, voices rising and a church built from salvaged lantern housings. It is a celebration and a mourning in one room. Nobody sings alone.

Jazz and blues

Album 36 of 90 · Bebop

Fast Hands, Faster Fronts

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Breakneck solos for a courier unit that changes lanes mid-battle faster than the enemy can read.

  1. Lane Change
  2. Courier Changes
  3. Quick Parry Blues
  4. Blade Runner Bop
  5. Tempered Tempo
  6. Sixteenth Note Skirmish
  7. Chromatic Orchard
  8. Bridge Switch
  9. Out of Reach

Liner note: Dense, quick and dazzling, with every musician trading ideas at speed. The courier unit survives by never doing the expected thing. So does the band.

Album 37 of 90 · Cool jazz

Sheathed in Smoke

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Laid-back horn lines for the officer who prefers a quiet table to a loud field.

  1. Smoke Over the Truce Table
  2. Muted Trumpet
  3. Slow Pour
  4. Sheathed
  5. The Long Pause
  6. Brushes on Silence
  7. Late Night Accord
  8. Cool Edge

Liner note: Restraint as an art form. Muted horns and soft brushes make the sheathe verb sound sophisticated. A calm record for a long evening.

Album 38 of 90 · Jazz fusion

Fairy Tech Meets Psi

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Electric guitars, synthesizers and wild solos that blend tempering and bending into one sound.

  1. Temper and Bend
  2. Synth Lantern
  3. Fusion Engine
  4. Psi Fretless
  5. Odd Meter Parry
  6. Wah Wah Orchard
  7. The Middle Path
  8. Bent and Tempered
  9. Blue Light Jam

Liner note: The central tension of the game, played as a jam. One side sounds precise and bright, the other curved and strange. The best moments happen in between.

Album 39 of 90 · Big band swing

Midnight Muster at the Depot

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Brass-heavy swing for the all-hands dance held in a lantern depot the night before a campaign.

  1. Muster Call
  2. Swing the Lantern
  3. Tempered Trombones
  4. Depot Jitterbug
  5. Skybridge Stomp
  6. Last Call Before the Front
  7. Brass Bind
  8. Wake Me at Dawn

Liner note: Big sound, big smiles and a small shadow of worry. Everyone knows the muster is the last easy night for a while. They dance harder because of it.

Album 40 of 90 · Delta blues

Mud and Lantern Oil

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Raw, slide-guitar blues from a lone wanderer crossing a flooded battlefield with a single lamp.

  1. Flooded Field Walkin'
  2. One Lamp, One Road
  3. Muddy Edge
  4. Slide Along the Bridge
  5. Bent String Prayer
  6. No Truce for a Wanderer
  7. Cold Water Morning
  8. Crossroads at the Orchard

Liner note: Voice and guitar, close up. The wanderer carries no army and no rank, only a lamp and a story. It is the oldest sound in the catalog.

Album 41 of 90 · Smooth jazz

Hovering Lounge

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Gentle saxophone and soft keys for the lounge on the hovering platform, where officers pretend to relax.

  1. Platform Lounge
  2. Soft Edge
  3. Saxophone Skyline
  4. Velvet Parry
  5. Late Briefing
  6. Off the Record
  7. Elevator to the Cloud
  8. Last Drink Before Dawn

Liner note: Pleasantly polished background music for a very tense bar. The tune says everything is fine. The listener is not so sure.

Album 42 of 90 · Free jazz

The Storm Has No Score

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Unstructured, improvised chaos meant to mimic the unpredictable shape of a psi storm.

  1. No Key, No Map
  2. Honk and Bend
  3. Screaming Lantern
  4. Collective Storm
  5. Silence Interrupted
  6. The Horn Argues
  7. Rhythm Falls Apart
  8. Storm Rests

Liner note: No composition, only reaction. It sounds like what it is: a force that does not follow a pattern. A challenging listen that rewards patience.

Folk, country and roots

Album 43 of 90 · Folk ballad

Song of the Quiet Front

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

A gentle ballad cycle about the soldiers who wait through a front that never quite begins.

  1. Waiting by the Fire
  2. Letter Never Sent
  3. The Orchard Sleeps
  4. Lantern at the Window
  5. Mend the Cloak
  6. Bell Over the Bridge
  7. Slow Footsteps Home
  8. Song of the Quiet Front

Liner note: Gentle guitar and honest voices. This is a record about the ordinary hours of war. Not every front is a fight.

Album 44 of 90 · Bluegrass

Banjo on the Skybridge

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Fast fiddles and banjos for the mountain companies who guard a rope bridge between two floating platforms.

  1. Rope Bridge Rag
  2. Flatpick Fairy Tech
  3. Holler Across the Gap
  4. Mountain Lantern
  5. Fiddle Tempering
  6. Hills Above the Cloud
  7. Dobro Dawn
  8. Jig of the Garrison
  9. Home by the Clouds

Liner note: Rapid-fire picking and tight harmonies. The mountain companies are proud and a bit stubborn. They play the way they hold a bridge, fast and together.

Album 45 of 90 · Honky-tonk country

Last Call at the Truce Tavern

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Twangy heartbreak songs from a tavern on the border where both sides drink under a flag of truce.

  1. Truce Tavern Two Step
  2. Drinks on the Enemy
  3. Neon Lantern Heartache
  4. Sheathed My Sword, Lost My Girl
  5. Pour Another for the Front
  6. Jukebox Edge
  7. Closing Time Accord
  8. Walk Home Alone

Liner note: Steel guitar, sad stories and a bartender who has seen both sides. In this tavern, nobody fights. They just hurt a little, together.

Album 46 of 90 · Celtic folk

Mist Over the Mushroom Moor

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Fiddles, whistles and pipes for the clans who live on a misty moor of glowing fungi.

  1. Mist and Mushroom Reel
  2. Clan of the Pale Light
  3. Bodhran Bind
  4. Whistle Over the Moor
  5. Lament for the Fallen Hill
  6. Lantern Jig
  7. Highland Parry
  8. Gathering at the Stones
  9. Slow Air for Morning

Liner note: Lively reels and aching airs. The clans guard the moor with songs as old as the fungi. Tap your foot, then wipe your eyes.

Album 47 of 90 · Sea shanty

Haul Away, Lantern Crew

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Rousing call and response work songs for the crew of a cloud ship that hauls fairy-tech cargo across the sky.

  1. Haul Away the Lantern
  2. Heave on the Cloud Rope
  3. Cargo of Small Lights
  4. Skybound Sally
  5. Storm on the Starboard Side
  6. Pass the Grog, Pass the Bend
  7. Mast of the Hovering Ship
  8. Last Haul Home

Liner note: Shouted by a whole crew at once. A shanty is a tool for working together, and this one sets the pace for hauling cargo through the sky. Join in on the chorus.

Album 48 of 90 · Americana

Dust Road to the Dissolved Town

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Warm, wandering storytelling for a traveler who visits towns that vanished when their fronts dissolved.

  1. Dust Road
  2. The Town That Wasn't There
  3. Tin Lantern Blues
  4. Porch Light for a Ghost
  5. Pawn Shop Blade
  6. Fields of Faded Fire
  7. Last Train to Nowhere
  8. Home Is a Memory

Liner note: Slide guitar, harmonica and plain speech. The traveler passes through places that no longer exist. Each song is a small memorial.

Album 49 of 90 · Neofolk

Ritual of the Pale Orchard

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Dark acoustic hymns for a quiet order that tends an orchard on the edge of the Bent Court's reach.

  1. Ash and Apple
  2. Pale Orchard Vigil
  3. Runes in the Bark
  4. The Order Keeps Silence
  5. Black Sun Lantern
  6. Harvest of Edges
  7. Bone Flute Procession
  8. Hush

Liner note: Hushed, ceremonial and a little ominous. The order believes that the orchard remembers every battle. They sing to it softly so it will not wake.

Album 50 of 90 · Outlaw country

Deserters of the Tempered Host

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Gritty, defiant songs for soldiers who walked away from the Tempered Host and never looked back.

  1. Walked Off the Line
  2. Wanted Poster Waltz
  3. Rebel Lantern
  4. Outlaw Edge
  5. Dry Creek Hideout
  6. Drink to the Dishonored
  7. Bounty on a Blade
  8. Ride Free

Liner note: Raw voices and rough guitars. These songs belong to people who put down the sword and picked up the open road. They are not sorry.

Classical and cinematic

Album 51 of 90 · Baroque

Counterpoint of the Citadel

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Intricate harpsichord and strings written for the court of a floating citadel that loves order and ornament.

  1. Prelude in Tempered Steel
  2. Fugue of Four Fronts
  3. Courante for the Court
  4. Ornament and Edge
  5. Sarabande of the Sheathed Blade
  6. Gigue at the Gate
  7. Passacaglia of the Platform
  8. Toccata for the Dissolving Hall

Liner note: Every voice answers every other, like fronts that must all be resolved. The citadel court thinks of war as a very elaborate dance. Elegant, precise and a bit cold.

Album 52 of 90 · Chamber music

Quartet for a Quiet Room

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Four players in a small candlelit room, writing music for the hour after a battle.

  1. After the Field
  2. Cello Confession
  3. Violin in Candlelight
  4. Viola's Question
  5. Four Voices Agree
  6. Intimate Truce
  7. Fade to Candle
  8. Last Bow

Liner note: Small and personal. After the huge sound of war, a handful of strings makes the silence audible. It is the most intimate record in the catalog.

Album 53 of 90 · Opera

The Sheathing of Vael

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

A three-act story in song about a commander who must decide whether to sheathe or strike at the final front.

  1. Overture of the Edge
  2. Aria of the Commander
  3. Duet at the Truce Table
  4. Chorus of the Host
  5. The Bent Court Sings
  6. Recitative of Doubt
  7. Trio of the Three Fronts
  8. The Sword Descends
  9. Finale: Sheathe

Liner note: Vael is an invented commander for this concept, a figure to carry the central choice of the universe. The libretto is imagined, the music is imagined, and the question is real. Does restraint count as courage?

Album 54 of 90 · Minimalism

The Room Dissolves in Small Steps

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Slowly shifting repeated patterns that mirror a room dissolving, one resolved choice at a time.

  1. Pattern One: A Single Front
  2. Pattern Two: Added Voice
  3. Phase of the Lantern
  4. Repetition and Edge
  5. Gradual Process
  6. Shifting Fields
  7. The Pattern Thins
  8. Nothing Left to Resolve

Liner note: Tiny changes accumulate until the whole texture has become something else. It is the dissolving-room loop as music. Listen to the pattern fade away.

Album 55 of 90 · Cinematic orchestral

Theme of the Strongest Unit

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

A sweeping film-style score that follows the blade of the strongest unit through an entire campaign.

  1. Main Theme: The Edge
  2. March of the Host
  3. Fairy Tech Awakens
  4. Psi Storm Approaches
  5. The Blade Is Bent
  6. Truce at Twilight
  7. The Strongest Unit Stands
  8. End Credits: Dissolved

Liner note: The score you would hear if this game were a film. Themes return in new forms as the blade is tempered and bent. It is the best first listen for a newcomer.

Album 56 of 90 · Choral requiem

Requiem for the Dissolved Fronts

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

A solemn choral mass for every front that dissolved and every unit that went with it.

  1. Introit: Rest for the Field
  2. Kyrie of the Lantern
  3. Dies Irae of the Storm
  4. Lacrimosa for the Orchard
  5. Offertory of Edges
  6. Sanctus in Pale Light
  7. Agnus Dei, Sheathed
  8. Lux Aeterna

Liner note: Voices in layered Latin-inspired lines, with invented words where needed. It is a ceremony for those who are not remembered anywhere else. Slow, grave and beautiful.

Album 57 of 90 · Piano nocturne

Nocturnes for the Night Watch

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Soft piano pieces for the lone sentry at the edge of a camp, awake while the army sleeps.

  1. Nocturne One: Watch Begins
  2. Moon on the Lantern
  3. Soft Hands, Sharp Night
  4. Orchard Breath
  5. Distant Static
  6. Nocturne for a Sleeping Host
  7. Cold Tea at Three
  8. First Gray Light

Liner note: One piano, one sentry and a long night. It is the quietest album in the war section. Good company for staying up late.

Album 58 of 90 · String orchestra

Strings for the Skybridge Dawn

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Lush, sustained strings written for the first light over a hovering platform.

  1. First Light on the Platform
  2. Rising Over the Rail
  3. Warm Bow, Cold Wind
  4. Lantern Fades With the Sun
  5. Strings and Fairy Tech
  6. The Bridge Wakes
  7. Pale Gold
  8. Full Day

Liner note: A gentle, rising record with no drums and no words. It paints a morning on a platform floating high above everything. Calm and spacious.

World and regional

Album 59 of 90 · Reggae

One Lamp Rootsman

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Laid-back offbeat grooves for a rootsman who tends one lantern and one hillside during a long ceasefire.

  1. Hillside Lantern
  2. Offbeat Orchard
  3. Rootsman Sheathes
  4. Peace Is the Riddim
  5. Green Field Morning
  6. Bass Over the Border
  7. Smoke and Starlight
  8. Natty Parry
  9. Keep the Truce Lit

Liner note: A slow, warm record that makes the sheathe verb sound like a way of life. The bass is the heartbeat of the hillside. Play it when you want the pace of the world to ease.

Album 60 of 90 · Ska

Checkerboard Checkpoint

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Upbeat horns and fast offbeats for the cheerful guards at a border checkpoint who wave everyone through.

  1. Stamp the Pass
  2. Horns at the Gate
  3. Checkpoint Skank
  4. Lantern Lane Open
  5. Quick Bind, Quick Smile
  6. Orchard Border Bounce
  7. Rude Warden
  8. Last Car Through

Liner note: Bright, quick and impossible to stand still to. The guards would rather dance than detain. A relief after the heavier sections of the catalog.

Album 61 of 90 · Flamenco

Heel and Edge

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Fierce guitar, handclaps and footwork for a dance duel fought to settle a border dispute without a battle.

  1. Duel Begins
  2. Heel Strike
  3. Palmas for the Lantern
  4. Rasgueado Edge
  5. The Bent Step
  6. Judges Hold Breath
  7. Sheathed in Silence
  8. Zapateado at Dawn

Liner note: A dancer from each side meets on a stone floor and the dispute is decided by rhythm. It is proof that the sheathe verb can be a performance. Passion without bloodshed.

Album 62 of 90 · Afrobeat

Fairy Tech Highlife Express

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Polyrhythmic grooves and long brass lines for a traveling market that sells fairy tech from caravan to caravan.

  1. Caravan Opens
  2. Market of Small Lights
  3. Brass Along the Road
  4. Tempered Talking Drum
  5. Bend the Bargain
  6. Highlife Engine
  7. Night Bazaar
  8. Dust and Dance

Liner note: Long, rolling jams built on interlocking rhythms. The market moves from front to front and the music moves with it. Plenty of room for a solo.

Album 63 of 90 · Bossa nova

Veranda at the Quiet Front

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Soft nylon guitar and whispered vocals for officers on a sunlit veranda, far from the line.

  1. Veranda Afternoon
  2. Lantern in the Lemon Tree
  3. Brush of Sea Wind
  4. Quiet Front Waltz
  5. Slow Parry
  6. Sunday Letters
  7. Cup of Pale Coffee
  8. Shade

Liner note: Breezy and warm, as if the war were happening somewhere else. For one afternoon, it is. A gentle break for tired ears.

Album 64 of 90 · Klezmer

Wedding Under the Skybridge

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Clarinets and fiddles at a joyful wedding held on a platform between two armies.

  1. Procession on the Bridge
  2. Clarinet Cry
  3. Dance of the Two Camps
  4. Bride of the Orchard
  5. Freylekhs for the Fronts
  6. Lantern Under the Canopy
  7. Last Glass, First Dance
  8. Everyone Stay

Liner note: The music laughs and weeps in the same phrase. Both armies were invited and both came. The album imagines what peace might look like for one night.

Album 65 of 90 · Gamelan

Bells of the Hovering Temple

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Shimmering metal percussion in layered cycles for a temple that floats above the mushroom fields.

  1. Opening of the Gate
  2. Cycle of Lanterns
  3. Bronze Rain
  4. Temple Drift
  5. Interlocking Edge
  6. Offering at the Orchard
  7. Slow Sun on Metal
  8. Closing Cycle

Liner note: Overlapping bells and gongs create a glowing cloud of sound. The cycles never quite repeat, like fields that never quite dissolve the same way. This album takes inspiration from the style of the genre and makes no claim to represent any one tradition.

Album 66 of 90 · Tango

Last Tango Before the Dissolve

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Dramatic bandoneon and strings for two commanders who dance every evening while their fronts close in.

  1. Embrace and Edge
  2. Bandoneon Lantern
  3. Two Steps Forward
  4. Counter Step
  5. Parry in Six Eight
  6. Candle on the Floor
  7. Sheathed Under the Chandelier
  8. Final Turn

Liner note: Tension is the whole point. Every step is a negotiation and every pause is a threat. It is elegant, tragic and a little bit hopeful.

Album 67 of 90 · Cumbia

Lantern Parade of the River Towns

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Sunny, swaying rhythms for a festival parade that winds through the river towns of the map.

  1. River Town Parade
  2. Accordion Lantern
  3. Guacharaca Edge
  4. Dance Along the Water
  5. Festival Fronts
  6. Bend the Skirt
  7. Float of Pale Fire
  8. Moon Over the Market
  9. Home on the Tide

Liner note: Gourd scrapers, accordion and an easy sway. The river towns celebrate whenever the war steps away. It is a parade, and everyone is invited to join.

Ambient and experimental

Album 68 of 90 · Dark ambient

Cathedral of Spent Fronts

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Cavernous drones and distant metallic echoes for an empty cathedral built from the remains of dissolved battlefields.

  1. Nave of Ash
  2. Echo of the Last Bell
  3. Stone Lantern
  4. Spent Front
  5. Bent Whisper in the Vault
  6. Crypt of Edges
  7. Slow Bloom of Dust
  8. Candle at the Altar

Liner note: Pure atmosphere, almost no melody. Headphones in a dark room are the right setting. The cathedral holds every echo of every front that ever dissolved.

Album 69 of 90 · Drone

One Note for the Whole Field

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

A single sustained tone that slowly changes color across one long battle.

  1. Hum of the Host
  2. Held Breath
  3. Overtone Orchard
  4. Beating Edge
  5. Static Bloom
  6. Low Lantern
  7. Second Harmonic
  8. Tone Resolves

Liner note: Each track is a slow study in a single sound. The changes are tiny but real, like watching a field change as the light does. It is a meditation on how much one note can hold.

Album 70 of 90 · Space ambient

Sky Beyond the Skybridge

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Wide, floating pads for the long silences between platforms high above the world.

  1. Above the Hovering Dock
  2. Thin Air
  3. Stars in the Lantern Glass
  4. Slow Orbit
  5. Quiet Between Fronts
  6. Weightless
  7. Platform Lights Below
  8. Drift Home

Liner note: Soft textures that seem to go on forever. The platforms are lonely and beautiful, and so is this record. Perfect for falling asleep.

Album 71 of 90 · Musique concrete

Sounds of the Tempering Room

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

A collage built from recorded sounds of hammers, steam, glass and wire, arranged as music.

  1. Anvil Study
  2. Steam Phrase
  3. Wire and Glass
  4. Quench Rhythm
  5. Spoon on Steel
  6. Scrape and Echo
  7. Lantern Hum
  8. Cooling Sequence

Liner note: Nothing here is a traditional instrument. The tempering room is the orchestra. Listen closely, because the details are the music.

Album 72 of 90 · Noise

Static Parry

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Harsh walls of feedback and distortion as a psi storm hits a unit with no shelter.

  1. Wall One
  2. Feedback Edge
  3. Overload Lantern
  4. Static Parry
  5. Burn the Signal
  6. Clipping Orchard
  7. White Edge
  8. Hiss Resolves

Liner note: Very loud and very uncompromising. It is not for everyone, and it does not want to be. The storm has no interest in being pleasant.

Album 73 of 90 · New age

Healing Garden of the Lantern Sisters

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Soft flutes, bowls and gentle synths for the sisters who heal the wounded with light, tea and quiet.

  1. Morning Tea in the Ward
  2. Flute Over the Pallets
  3. Singing Bowl Dawn
  4. Lantern Touch
  5. Soft Light, Slow Mend
  6. Herb Garden Walk
  7. Breath In, Edge Out
  8. Rest

Liner note: A calming record for a healing space. The sisters believe fairy tech can mend as well as temper. This album gives them a sound to match.

Album 74 of 90 · Post-rock

The Field That Rises Again

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Slow-building crescendos of guitar for the moment a ruined field blooms again after the war.

  1. Ash and First Green
  2. Crescendo of Dust
  3. Lantern in the Rain
  4. Slow Tremolo Dawn
  5. The Rising
  6. Wide Open Orchard
  7. Everything That Grew
  8. Quiet After the Wall

Liner note: Starts almost silent and ends in a wave. There are no words, only the climb. It tells the story of recovery better than a speech could.

Retro and game music

Album 75 of 90 · Chiptune

Lantern Quest 8 Bit

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Bouncy square wave tunes that imagine Farireteclucklend as a tiny retro handheld adventure.

  1. Title Screen
  2. Overworld Orchard
  3. Boss Storm
  4. Level Up Lantern
  5. Shop Theme
  6. Game Over Sheathe
  7. Secret Cave
  8. Final Boss Bend
  9. Credits Roll

Liner note: Pure nostalgia for a game that does not exist. The big war becomes a cartridge, and the tunes become earworms. Plug in and press start.

Album 76 of 90 · Dungeon synth

Keep of the Lantern King

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Lo-fi synthesizer fantasy music for a dim stone keep that guards the oldest fairy-tech engine.

  1. Gate of the Keep
  2. Torch in the Corridor
  3. Throne of Pale Light
  4. Engine Below
  5. Banner Hall
  6. Quiet Servant
  7. Stair Without End
  8. Sealed Door

Liner note: Home-made sounding and proud of it. Imagine a candle, a keyboard and a long evening. A cozy dungeon record with a cold heart.

Album 77 of 90 · Eurobeat

Max Speed Skybridge Run

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Pounding, high-energy dance beats for the pilots who race gliders along the Skybridge at breakneck speed.

  1. Racing Lanterns
  2. Glider on Fire
  3. Max Tempered
  4. Drift Around the Platform
  5. Super Bend
  6. Night Run
  7. Top of the Bridge
  8. Checkered Flag

Liner note: Fast, bright and ridiculous in the best way. The pilots treat the bridge as a track. Turn it up.

Album 78 of 90 · Italo disco

Mirrorball at the Fairy Tech Club

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Glittering vocoder synth pop for a club on the platform where soldiers dance under a spinning lantern.

  1. Lantern Mirrorball
  2. Vocoder Warden
  3. Neon Truce
  4. Dance Floor Edge
  5. Synthetic Romance
  6. Midnight Platform
  7. Glow Stick Parry
  8. Last Song at the Club

Liner note: Shiny, romantic and a little lonely. The club is the safest place on the map and everyone knows it. The record sounds like dancing with the lights down low.

Album 79 of 90 · Happy hardcore

Sugar Rush Front

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Fast, euphoric dance anthems for a candy-bright unit that turns each battle into a rave.

  1. Sugar Rush
  2. Pogo Lantern
  3. Piano Stabs of Joy
  4. Glitter Cannon
  5. Skip the Storm
  6. Bounce Bounce Bend
  7. Balloon Brigade
  8. Light Up the Field

Liner note: Impossible to listen to without grinning. The unit treats war as a party it was never invited to and attends anyway. A burst of colour in a gray catalog.

Pop, voices and stage

Album 80 of 90 · Lullaby

Sleep Now, Little Lantern

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Soft, gentle songs sung by parents in the shelters while the front rumbles far away.

  1. Hush in the Shelter
  2. Little Lantern, Little Light
  3. The Orchard Is Asleep
  4. Count the Stars
  5. Blanket of Pale Fire
  6. Far Away Thunder
  7. Moon Over the Bridge
  8. Close Your Eyes

Liner note: Written to be sung quietly to a child. Simple melodies, soft voices and no sharp edges. A reminder of who the war is really about.

Album 81 of 90 · Children's songs

The Wobbly Fairy Tech Parade

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Silly singalongs about friendly machines, mushrooms and a very brave gnome in the world of the fronts.

  1. Gnome on the Bridge
  2. Mushroom ABC
  3. Wobbly Lantern
  4. Count Your Spores
  5. Little Engine Hums
  6. Stomp Like a Blade
  7. Marching Mice
  8. Goodnight, Fronts

Liner note: Made for singing along with small voices. The war is far away and everything is friendly and funny. A gentle way to meet the world of Farireteclucklend.

Album 82 of 90 · Indie pop

Postcards from the Quiet Front

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Bright, bittersweet songs written as letters from a scout to friends back home.

  1. Dear Orchard
  2. Stamp from the Platform
  3. Postcard Lantern
  4. Everything Is Fine
  5. Missing the Rain
  6. Tell Them I Said Hi
  7. Paper Plane Over the Gap
  8. P.S. I Sheathed

Liner note: Warm guitars and honest, small-scale lyrics. The scout is homesick and tries to be funny about it. A sweet record about missing people.

Album 83 of 90 · Dream pop

Sleepwalking Through the Mushroom Field

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Hazy, floating melodies sung by a soldier who walks through a glowing field half asleep.

  1. Half Awake Lantern
  2. Soft Glow Spores
  3. Cloud on the Bridge
  4. Slow Motion Edge
  5. Pale Light Lullaby
  6. Fade Out Orchard
  7. Dreamt of Peace
  8. Wake Up Slowly

Liner note: Blurred in the best way, like seeing the world through lantern glass. Dreamy, quiet and a little sad. Close your eyes for this one.

Album 84 of 90 · Synthpop

Signal from the Skybridge

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Catchy, shiny pop for the radio operators who broadcast across the platforms every evening.

  1. Radio Hour
  2. Skybridge Signal
  3. Dial a Lantern
  4. Static Heart
  5. Broadcast Edge
  6. Tune In Tomorrow
  7. Antenna Love Song
  8. Sign Off

Liner note: Hooks first and always. The operators are the voice of the campaign and the music is built to be remembered. Something to hum while you work.

Album 85 of 90 · Disco

Glitterball Garrison

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Strings, four-on-the-floor and big hooks for a garrison that holds a weekly dance in the main hall.

  1. Saturday Night Garrison
  2. Lantern Strobe
  3. Boogie Before the Front
  4. Fairy Dust Floor
  5. Tempered Groove
  6. Spin Me, Warden
  7. Mirror Parry
  8. Last Dance, First Light

Liner note: Joy as a form of resistance. The garrison dances every Saturday whatever tomorrow brings. Put on something sparkly.

Album 86 of 90 · Musical theater

The Musical of the Dissolving Room

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

A stage show in imagined songs about an ordinary clerk swept into a war that dissolves around her.

  1. Opening: The Room Is Gone
  2. I Want a Quiet Desk
  3. Meet the Strongest Unit
  4. Patter of the Fronts
  5. Duet with the Enemy
  6. Act One Finale: Strike or Sheathe
  7. Entr'acte
  8. Truce Table Waltz
  9. Reprise: The Room Is Gone
  10. Curtain Call

Liner note: A fictional cast recording that exists only as a concept. The clerk is an invented character who carries the audience through the loop. It is big, silly and moving by turns.

Album 87 of 90 · A cappella

One Hundred Voices, No Instruments

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Voices alone sing the sounds of the army: drums, horns, wind and wire.

  1. Voices for the Host
  2. Vocal Percussion Parade
  3. Wind in the Orchard
  4. Harmony of Edges
  5. Choir Strikes
  6. Human Horns
  7. Hum of the Lantern
  8. Final Chord

Liner note: Every sound here is a voice. The army is imagined without a single instrument, only breath and throat. It proves how much a crowd can carry.

Album 88 of 90 · Military march band

Parade of the Strongest Unit

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Brass and snare for the grand parade held after a front is won, with the strongest unit at its head.

  1. Fanfare for the Edge
  2. Snare Cadence
  3. Brass Lantern Walk
  4. Colors Pass the Platform
  5. Tempered Tuba
  6. Halt and Salute
  7. Triumph March
  8. Dismissed

Liner note: Crisp, bright and ceremonial. The parade is proud but the album remembers the cost. Listen for the quiet drum at the end.

Album 89 of 90 · Gregorian chant

Vespers of the Pale Orchard

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

Unaccompanied chant sung by monks who keep vigil over a quiet orchard at dusk.

  1. Lamp Lighting
  2. Antiphon of the Edge
  3. Psalm of Pale Light
  4. Responsory for the Orchard
  5. Hymn at the Gate
  6. Silence Between Verses
  7. Compline
  8. Night Prayer

Liner note: A single line of voices in a stone room. The monks sing for fronts that have not yet come. Slow, simple and deeply calm.

Album 90 of 90 · Spoken word

The Quartermaster Reads the Ledger

By Kevin Snow · In A Whorld Enterprise

A poet of the supply depot reads a long poem of names, crates and quiet heroism over soft music.

  1. Inventory of the Morning
  2. Crates and Candles
  3. The Fallen Are Counted
  4. Lantern Oil Litany
  5. Truck Driver's Psalm
  6. What We Carry
  7. The Last Line of the Ledger
  8. Closing the Depot

Liner note: Mostly voice, with gentle music under it. The quartermaster believes that to count something is to honor it. A quiet, clear and unusual record.

Credit

All 90 concept albums are by Kevin Snow, In A Whorld Enterprise. Concept albums only. Nothing here has been recorded.

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