{"id":1770,"date":"2026-11-01T00:10:54","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2026-11-01T00:10:55","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:10:55","slug":"low-effort-surf-rock-salty-strings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/01\/low-effort-surf-rock-salty-strings\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Effort Surf Rock: Salty Strings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Salty_strings.ogg\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not digging the vibe of this one so much, but it&#8217;s there.  It&#8217;s there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only one more track off this album to go.  It&#8217;s not a whole lot better.  Then I&#8217;ll work on the next real album.  I&#8217;m having second thoughts about naming it &#8220;Battle of the Bands.&#8221;  I wanted to tie it into the end of M.4R and M.3R, and I&#8217;m planning a running theme through the album of &#8220;Wicked Hokkaido&#8221; launching attacks on other cartoon bands.  I like the music of Gorillaz, BTW.  It&#8217;s the low-line count art style I can&#8217;t stand, which has afflicted western animation for decades.  Everything has to be done for cheap, but I love the line art medium, and I find &#8220;low line count&#8221; to be a hateful thing.  It&#8217;s like,  &#8220;Oh, you wanted a car with four wheels?  Well, you get half a wheel.  Work with it.&#8221;  Just miserable.  &#8220;Tank Girl&#8221; has a funky style, but it wasn&#8217;t as low-line count as Gorillaz.  It&#8217;s more detailed than &#8220;Way of the Waifu,&#8221; which is the quickest, simplest art style I could bring myself to draw.  If I had all the time it would take to draw &#8220;Way of the Waifu&#8221; the way I wanted it to look, it wouldn&#8217;t look like it does.  Maybe Gorillaz wouldn&#8217;t either.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not digging the vibe of this one so much, but it&#8217;s there. It&#8217;s there. Only one more track off this album to go. It&#8217;s not a whole lot better. Then I&#8217;ll work on the next real album. I&#8217;m having second<br \/><a class=\"btn-more btn btn-danger btn-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/01\/low-effort-surf-rock-salty-strings\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-way-of-the-waifu-low-effort-surf-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1772,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions\/1772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}