Let’s say you’ve been given the chance to create a reimagined Vanisher, Horizon Scraper Definitive Cut, you can place any track anywhere you want but the only rule is that you MUST use every song from the original tracklist, the vinyl bonus tracks, and i.ii.iii. How are you approaching this?

Ever since Hayley William’s last album I’ve been itching to do another custom tracklist album so I’m trying my hand at a full Vanisher tracklist featuring all the bonus material, attempting to make a track order that flows best both in where across the album each track is placed and how they transition to and from one another. Nothing about the original or extended cut’s order was changed in mine aside from the additions in between. Some tracks might change position in time but after giving it a few listens I think I like what I’ve got here.

The one spot I wanted to focus the most on was the ending. One of my biggest gripes with the original tracklist was the final stretch, or lack there of. That being THE GREAT BAKUNAWA, FORGONE and CASPER, all great songs on their own but it always felt off that there was only one song between THE GREAT BAKUNAWA and CASPER, and the fact that that song, FORGONE, is a very different vibe to both of them, kinda like a rushed ending. It just didn’t flow very well in my opinion and made it a little difficult to enjoy each of them to their fullest potential, especially FORGONE. Thankfully the extended cut’s addition of MELISA helps FORGONE feel less out of place but it still didn’t feel like enough, almost like there was an entire portion of the album missing here, it’s on the right track though. So with the addition of a second interlude in HORIZON SCRAPER after THE GREAT BAKUNAWA helping to create a divide and some added depth with NOT ENOUGH and MELISA as well as the three finale tracks it’s been extended from a three track ending to a full final act that takes up almost an entire third of the full tracklist attempting a better flow and giving a proper buildup to FORGONE, allowing it to feel right at home where it is.

Anyways that’s my spiel, what do you think?

What would be your “Definitive” Vanisher, Horizon Scraper tracklist?