Well, I did stumble my way through some mixing at home. I returned to Neil's place for the final session and we did indeed manage to finish everything… well 99%.
What I think worked out quite well for us is we arranged to go out and meet a friend of mine in the evening. It forced us to be pretty ruthless with ourselves about how much time we had to agonise over little details.
In the end we agreed that we'd give ourselves a day to reset our ears, listen to all the mixes and see if there were any final tweaks needed. Ultimately, all that was left was that my vocal track was a little loud ("proud" as Neil calls it) on two of the tracks.
We also tried having the first two tracks blend together, so that the last word of track 1 falls as track 2 starts. Nice idea, it didn't work in practice.
But that's it. Neil will hopefully have time to make those little adjustments and then that'll be it. He'll send me the final tracks, I'll forward them to Augurio Drama and he'll line it up for release.
There is of course one other matter: album art. I really had no idea what I wanted to do about this. Finally I had an idea. My collaborator Existent/NonExistent (who I made Industrial State of Mind with) also does photography. This was in fact my introduction to him: I saw his artwork on Instagram.
That introduction led to me contacing him about collaborating, which ultimately led to me contacting Augurio Drama about collaborating with him (and releasing Industrial State of Mind).
So even though Ex/NonEx isn't wasn't involved in making this album, I thought it would be nice to be able to have his name listed on the project (plus I like his photography). Now I just need to write the liner credits and then when Neil sends me the files we are done and dusted and I can move on to the next project.