{"id":385,"date":"2017-11-02T14:44:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T18:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/?p=385"},"modified":"2019-02-11T15:37:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T20:37:35","slug":"thematic-thursday-the-expanse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/02\/thematic-thursday-the-expanse\/","title":{"rendered":"Thematic Thursday: The Expanse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to Thematic Thursdays where I share from my collection of soundtracks suitable for writing or working. And to celebrate NaNoWriMo, for the rest of the month I&#8217;m picking extremely moody pieces that you can loop as necessary while you type like the wind, Bullseye.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/the-expanse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-386\" src=\"http:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/the-expanse-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Expanse soundtrack by Clinton Shorter\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/the-expanse-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/the-expanse-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/the-expanse.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>One of the best sci-fi series to come out in recent years is The Expanse, based on the Leviathan Wakes novels by James SA Corey. I am a <strong>big\u00a0<\/strong>fan of the show. There may or may not be pictures of me in cosplay.<\/p>\n<p>ANYWAY<\/p>\n<p>The soundtrack by Clinton Shorter is incredibly smooth and atmospheric and <em>dark<\/em>. It combines the claustrophobia of space travel or asteroid tunnels and the paranoia of conspiracy theories with quiet, yet intense action.<\/p>\n<p>The opening credits is beautiful and haunting, giving away a lot of the worldbuilding with minimal fuss. The set design of The Expanse is a melange of influences well blended and the score is no different; each track is very different from the next and yet flows together smoothly without jarring. I highly recommend it for writing tense, thriller-esque sequences, moody and unsettled film-noir-inspired sci-fi, or simply for listening to while you stare into a glass of mushroom whiskey (don&#8217;t ask, it&#8217;s a thing).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I had a YouTube link for you but it&#8217;s been since taken down, so here is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=krqqqgixNq8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the opening credits<\/a> as an amuse bouche and I&#8217;ll try to find a link where you can listen before you buy. Just out of curiosity, where do you buy your music? <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/music\/album?id=Bu4dzkthqoswu64evx62xuxboja&amp;tid=song-T3dp4tgzg6an2ypv35jhpjaxukm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google<\/a>? <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ca\/album\/the-expanse-original-television-soundtrack\/id1116854633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes<\/a>? Or something else like Amazon? I can try to tailor the links based on what the majority uses. Personally I use Google the most. And just to make it clear, I&#8217;m not making any money from these posts. No affiliate links. I&#8217;m just sharing what I like because I think other people might like it too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best sci-fi series to come out in recent years is The Expanse, and its soundtrack is equally as compelling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[49,48,133],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-thematic-thursday","tag-atmospheric","tag-creepy","tag-moody"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}