I just want to acknowledge that I'm still alive, as I haven't been able to be around much recently - I had some minor but painful surgery a couple of weeks ago and recovery has taken more mental energy than I had thought. But I'm up and working again, and am walking with a cane for the time being, which people rather distressingly tend to say suits me.

I have been crawling forward with the last song for Signal from the Sky, though - this is the longest one on the album, based on a dream that I had in 2010 (and scraps of it have been around since then), and it's called The Secrets of an Island - a name that I Googled and realized that I had half-remembered from the worst album cover in the world, but nevertheless it stuck. The structure of the song has been... fluid at best, and it's only recently that I really managed to pin down the template for it - my notes on the sections' completeness currently look like this...

[X] Acoustic
[X] Vocal intro
[X] Lead into main
[X] Verses 1 - Island
[X] Pre-Chorus 1
[X] Library Chorus 1
[X] Verses 2 - The book and the page
[X] Pre-Chorus 2
[X] Fantasy Chorus 1
[X] Instrumental bridge
[X] Fire
[X] Library Chorus 2
[ ] Air
[/] Fast lead-up
[X] Fantasy Chorus 2 (soft)
[X] Acoustic + Solo 3
[/] Earth
[ ] Future
[X] Water
[/] Escape
[X] Conclusion
[X] Out

As for when it'll all be released... something that I hadn't anticipated about pre-orders is that I now feel sort of bad holding people's money in escrow, so I hope it'll be soon! Hopefully before the end of this month. It all depends on when these last sections come to me...