Neil has finished the mastering. Sounds are complete.
While I was in Thailand last month, I found out that a friend of mine on that trip, Sara, is a semi-professional graphic designer. So of course it made sense to ask her if she wanted to design the album cover. She agreed.
So once I was back here in the UK I sent her the picture from Ex/NoEx and guidelines for all the text that should be included — credits, song titles, links etc.
Obviously the album title too.
She's sent me a couple of draft versions back already. We are very close to being finished. Then all that's left is to pass everything on to Augurio Drama. He's already told me what the catalogue number will be.
It'll also be on cassette. That's what Sara's been designing: the cover, specifically fitting the cassette dimensions. Not the most scintillating fact right there, but a fact nonetheless.
The album came in finally just under 37 minutes, if I remember rightly. Augurio Drama told me it'll be on a 40 minute cassette. It would have still been possible to keep the planned track order, but it would have meant one side being a couple of minutes longer than the other. So I decided to swap two of the tracks around.
I think this new order might even be a better flow. The only negative is that we've now inadvertently put two tracks together that have a similar effect at the end. Maybe no one will notice.