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Released 6/2/2024.
Duration: 3:36.

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Tracks that Ballad of a Jack references:

• The Ballad of Jack Noir by Toby Fox
• Light of the Sun by Levc
• Desynced Anthem by Levc
• Liquid Negrocity by Toby Fox

Artist commentary:

Witch's Cadence: (booklet commentary)

This song is special, “Ballad of Jack Noir” is one of my favorite homestuck songs ever (especially the piano version where Toby Fox sings the lyrics he wrote for it). Which is why for this arrangement of the song I started with me recording myself playing my midi keyboard again, the lead vocal is also played by me on the midi keyboard. This song is actually one of the reasons I started the album in the first place, but I didn’t get around to doing it until later on. I really wanted it to be super expressive, I added the little string bits at 0:16 just for that perfect emotive quality. And then once again, right into some rock shit. This is a song about a Jack fucking shit up (Which kind of applies to all of the songs in ACT 2 but whatever). I had lots of fun playing the guitar parts for this, especially for the really hectic section at 1:07. (I love guitar mutes :drooling face:) The second half of this song is some entirely new stuff. First it goes into “Light of the Sun” by Levc. Perhaps this Jack is combating some skaian force; in a dubious manner I am sure. And then we bring in “Desynced Anthem” also by Levc. Gotta have that main theme nonsense. The finale section is just me playing way too many solos on way too many instruments at once, haha. I sprinkled in bits of “Black”, the bit of “Ballad of Jack Noir” that goes “I really hate these stupid hats!! And that stupid KING” (best part of the song imo) and finally once again little bits of “Desynced Anthem”. Finally the song ends on a reprise of the start of the song, this time melancholic in nature, what have you done jack? We may never know. . .