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| Evening Star by pharmakeus | 11 months ago |
| Nice! Really interesting vocals! | |
| I Try 2 by Omatoic | 11 months ago |
| You should post your lyrics! Love the octave vocals there. Great guitar work at the end too! What really really helped me with recording quality overall was investing in a condenser mic. It usually requires phantom power on your mixer (or you can buy it separately for about $20), but recording my guitar with a condenser mic instead of plugging it into the mixer directly was one of the best things I've done to improve the quality of the recording. |
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| A GIRL LIKE YOU by KCsGROOVE | 11 months ago |
| Oooh! Keep your guitarist! Classic blues - solid groove. | |
| My Heart And Soul by Deebeesea | 11 months ago |
| Hey! I bet your husband really appreciated this! | |
| Love and Happiness for You by pharmakeus | 11 months ago |
| Way to use your music for something so positive as to ease another's pain. Classy move. | |
| Stars Twinkle At Night.. by abzwork | 11 months ago |
| Oooohh nice! Reminds me of the stuff Ibiza puts out most years - love that chill/lounge feel. And well done with the 'no loops' thing! | |
| 06-25-11 - Goin' Down by JulietsFuneral | 11 months ago |
| Nice tune!! I could see a scene from a movie like the Hangover in the background as they transition scenes to a casino or something like that. Random, i know. But I like it! | |
| dark and moody 2 by Lapskin | 11 months ago |
| Interesting ride! Much less melodic than what I usually listen to - but has it's place in the music world | |
| Love Before Death by ZipZipper | 11 months ago |
| Ha! That's probably the most interesting song description I've read in quite some time! That definitely colors my listening. Love the eastern string sound | |
| Street Spirit (cover) by Smileygeezer | 11 months ago |
| Mmmmmm LOVE Radiohead and would LOVE to see more on this website influenced by them! Sounds like Radiohead and Pink Floyd had a collab  |
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| On a Sunday Afternoon by mabdon | 11 months ago |
| @SteveScott, @SISTERS - that's really helpful! What would help to make it less 'poppy' because I really don't love pop music and am slightly ashamed how poppy this came out |
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| Like A Lover by jbmusic | 11 months ago |
| Not at all the kind of music i usually choose to listen to... but you might win me over Great, rich, vocals! I think you should invest in 'pop filter' - to get rid of that "puuhh" sound on "Put an end..." Great voice! |
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| You Are My Morning Light by Axelbreeze | 11 months ago |
| Love the melody of the treble synth over the 'chorus' - oooh! Love Sabine's slip into minor there in the "It's time" part. Nice touch! Oh man I can hear one more notch 'up' in my head of that chorus - with the melody of the synth one more octave up, the kick drum x1.5 as loud, and moving the root of the chord to the 7th to the minor 3rd... it just got really loud in my head. Great production quality as always! |
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| As the Deer (A capella) by IbanezDude321 | 11 months ago |
| Nice harmonies | |
| Fade to Grey by SteveScott | 11 months ago |
| Man - that production quality is just top notch! I missed half of the 80's, unfortunately, but it's fun to hear what people pick out of the decade to bring back around - you picked a winner here! | |
| Tiger Cub's Debut by beansix | 11 months ago |
| Wow - how'd you come up with the idea for this one? Did you name the song that because that's what it ended up sounding like or did you sit down to write a song about a tiger cub finding its bearings? | |
| Tuck Me In by Naaji | 11 months ago |
| Hey Nice! Sounds like some of the 'chill-out' I've listened to - really relaxing and a solid groove to it! Great job! | |
| CRYSTAL by SISTERS | 11 months ago |
| Mmmm I love the interplay between the foreboding and mournful lyrics and subject matter with the unabashedly major tonality of the piece. I like that a lot. Well done. | |
| Some Velvet Morning by RubyDubidoux | 11 months ago |
| I've never heard the original - but I like what you've done here! Makes me think I missed some great stuff in the 60's! | |
| Babe Goes to Bollywood by pharmakeus | 11 months ago |
| 8 minutes! This track is epic! LOVE the electronic tweakings of the guitar in the section right after the first vox. And the trumpet sounds perfect!! The guitar at the beginning seems oddly in the foreground - whereas everything else has more reverb on it. Other than that - man that was a fun ride! |
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| Please Stay [Demo Mix] by pharmakeus | 11 months ago |
| Solid tune! | |
| Live For Today by brewchugger | 11 months ago |
| Oh that's good!! I'm not usually a fan of recordings of live tunes - but this was excellent! Artfully done yet straightforward! Great track | |
| Fortunate Son (CCR Cover) by Baboon | 11 months ago |
| NICE! That was rockin! Definitely out of my range there - love the distortion too | |
| It's Raining by Vixen | 11 months ago |
| Great combo! | |
| Robert Jeffrey Bradford by goochywahwah | 11 months ago |
| Wow! That's so cool that this track has waited something like 35 years to come to rest here! That's awesome. Hope it turned out like you wanted it to! | |
| TranceGo by abzwork | 11 months ago |
| While I don't take clubbing seriously - I did enjoy the listen! | |
| who's fooling? by firstn4mos | 11 months ago |
| Oh nice! I like the mix of acoustic and electronic! Sounds like it could really go somewhere in the future | |
| Bloodsuckers by Steel_Toe_Revival | 11 months ago |
| Definitely unique! How'd you do the vocals? What inspired this song? | |
| mother always did say i was good for something by Lapskin | 11 months ago |
| Kept me guessing, which is a good thing |
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| The Ocean by LaFayette | 11 months ago |
| Mmmmm that's good! I think i'll add that to my 'sitting by the pool/beach mix' on my ipod! | |
| Doubleback Alley by Beatle128 | 11 months ago |
| I don't know if songs are allowed to 'take me back' since I was born in '85... but love the throwback sound! | |
| Foxy's transformation by Bapta | 11 months ago |
| Nice - where'd you get the German voiceover?? | |
| Really Perfect by PrinceHabibou | 11 months ago |
| Hey! You've got a great voice! I haven't heard the original so I don't know what it usually sounds like - but you've got a smooth take on it! | |
| Funky Spandau Ballet No. 176 by RubyDubidoux | 1 year ago |
| I'm not a huge fan of vibrato - except when it's used tastefully - and you do it so well! I also like that you think in different dynamics - not always just mp or mf, but getting some ff and pp in there! |
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| Crazy Guitar Diddie Part Deux by RubyDubidoux | 1 year ago |
| Mmmm you know I love? Non-intuitive harmonies - and you've got 'em. Especially in the first verse there, and then the chorus. And love the effect you used to set them farther in the background. Well done! | |
| Enceladus by ScottHorwath | 1 year ago |
| Well - the wikipedia page for 'sheng' has one more hit thanks to this tune. I was just plain curious to see what it looked like! Cool tune! | |
| Life's Too Short Anyway by Bachthoven | 1 year ago |
| Wow so, very few artists on this site write in the genres i enjoy most - but this indie folk direction you're headed in is just glorious. Love the lyrics and you've got the chops to back up your songwriting, and your production is great too! Well done, sir. Well done! Who are you most influenced by, out of curiosity? |
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| Another Crazy day by Tailisman | 1 year ago |
| Mmm interesting! What would you do as far as vocals go if you were to add them? | |
| All's well that ends well by Narananda | 1 year ago |
| Love that thick wall of sound. I also enjoyed it. Thank you | |
| Electro Gundam (Fidget Mix) by olympus | 1 year ago |
| Nice - looks like you took your time and didn't just throw loops together - great work, and love the 1 measure breaks here and there | |
| Generosus by survival | 1 year ago |
| I DO like it! Love the timpani roll leading into the second section. How'd you get that sound? Recorded live? A loop? | |
| A Party in the City by DJBallistix | 1 year ago |
| Nice! I loved how the first drum sound we get sounds like someone walking on sidewalk. Definitely a city feel | |
| theres a catch by Lapskin | 1 year ago |
| Nice - I like the part about 1/3 of the way through, with the little 'bleeps' in the treble there. | |
| The Unraveling of Mary Alice Frances Parker Brown by BossHook | 1 year ago |
| Solid tune - love the harmonies on the chorus! | |
| Forever Yours (Jazz Version) by LaFayette | 1 year ago |
| Haunting and beautiful - thanks for sharing! | |
| Homeostasis by FourOFour | 1 year ago |
| No loops! I'm even more impressed! well done!! Sweet track - sound like NIN at times |
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| She Belongs To Me by brewchugger | 1 year ago |
| Ha! Fun! Well done! Maybe because the vocals are side by side - something sounds fishy there just because you've got two very different sounds production-quality wise. But that's pretty beside the point because you just did an awesome job collaborating on a good tune! |
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| Burned by Rusticalia | 1 year ago |
| Whoa! Do you ever listen to either David Bazan or Greg Laswell? Your vocals here remind me of either of them! Your lyrics at times are clever and other times sincere - I like both! Careful of the few times that they seem a bit commonplace (if you're into the constructive criticism thing) Thanks for sharing! |
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| How It Ends by Sabine | 1 year ago |
| Sabine don't change the piano one bit! LOVE that 'raw' sound and you play it so beautifully!! That was just beautiful! I have only one thought in the 'constructive criticism' realm - and only offer it because this song has SO much going for it - really well done! Okay what if you sang only every other line? I think I would enjoy this song even more if there was time for me to process what you're singing to me. A little more instrumental space in there would give more power to your words I think. The problem, of course, would be that you'd have to choose which lyrics would stay and which would go and if you're anything like me - that's always tough! GREAT work here! |
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| Plastic Toy Kazoo by Bachthoven | 1 year ago |
| I like the way you did your vocals in stereo - and honestly, as ridiculous as the subject matter is - thanks for writing something other than 'the norm'! Seriously though - you will have a much greater audience once you get that sound out of the background! Find a way to get that production quality up because your talent level isn't being done justice by that sound there! |
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| To These Four Walls by Moey | 1 year ago |
| Great production quality! Would love to see the lyrics up so we can get an even better handle on what you're communicating - I think it's something most of us relate to |
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| she by eagle | 1 year ago |
| Those harmonies at the beginning are ones i'd never have thought of! Nice | |
| Temptation by theTOMTOMS | 1 year ago |
| Great production quality! Love that! You guys work really great together. Man that intro is just SOLID! Agreed with Lagusaya2 - the common rhymes (and the verse lyrics in general) might benefit from finding ways to say the same thing in a way that's slightly less intuitive. Then again - you often lose communicative ability as you go down that road, it seems. |
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| Stone cold roller by irok | 1 year ago |
| Nice work! Love the unabashedly crunchy guitar! | |
| A Work In Progress by theheesch | 1 year ago |
| Hmm... let's brainstorm. Yes - lyrics would go a long way in keeping the listener engaged. Also - the drum track is not anything my ear hones in on as deserving my audial attention - I can hear something like a 'stomp & clap' (as in the track "Get over it" by OK GO) Agreed - that ending part might make a good intro! Guitar work is great - keep it up! |
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| Want by GaryLester | 1 year ago |
| I have to admit your vocal style is outside of what i usually listen to - but by the end of the song I was enjoying it - and actually - is there a way you can bring the vocals even further to the foreground of the sound? It's hard to hear you at times! | |
| Tintamarre Convulsif by ZipZipper | 1 year ago |
| Hey well done!! I hear your Danny Elfman in there for sure! | |
| MAN ON DA CORNER "use earphones for optimal listening" by waipahi | 1 year ago |
| Nice! I like what you've got going on here! Autotuned or not - can you bring your voice to the foreground a bit more? |
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| Sea of Nectar by warmjetsmusic | 1 year ago |
| Sometimes it's hard to find good ambient music on this site... which makes this track (and you as an artist) stand out all the more! Excellent stuff! So something I struggle with in my own writing is: Is it cheating to use loops? What's the line there? Specifically, I am very prone to using loops for drum sequences, as I don't have a set of drums to record with, and can't reproduce the complexity that some of these loops have, you know? What do you think? |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream by MattFrance | 1 year ago |
| Man, i can NEVER get my guitar to sound as clean as your does there. And even at 2am, your voice is good as gold! This could be just me - but was there a bit of 'messiness' in the guitar at the very beginning of the song? Excellent tune, Matt! |
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| I Wish I Could Know by MattFrance | 1 year ago |
| Wow - didn't see that turn coming in the lyrics - "And it's then i get to thinking why we drifted apart" I don't ever NOT like your voice |
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| 1951-1952 by mabdon | 1 year ago |
| Great question olympus! In taking in Clyfford Still's work, I had to wonder about the title and it's relation to the work he turned out. So I'm thinking that the Korean War wouldn't be an inappropriate topic matter, given the dates he chose. I, as the artist, am making the connection between the colors Still chose, the title he chose, and then my own subjective feelings towards each of those. Who knows what Still had in mind when putting all this together, but to me, it speaks of the darkness inherent in war. | |
| Fisherman's Cottage by mabdon | 1 year ago |
| Mmmm not a bad idea, SmilinJohn - I think that I'll take that into consideration as I look to finalize the track soon. | |
| Make this moment last by MattFrance | 1 year ago |
| I think that's just a question of style and what you're hoping to communicate. To my wife's chagrin, I don't often write about romantic love because it gets written about so much - so I've made a promise to myself that when I do write about it, it will be fairly veiled or non-intuitive. But that's just me, and I know I enjoy a large amount of songs that DO write openly about romantic love in ways that communicate the feeling and try to capture a moment as you do here. So really - if YOU feel like the bridge is too cheesy - then maybe it is If your 'artistic convictions' are setting in - pay them heed. But it's all a matter of taste i think. |
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| A Still Life by schubertiad | 1 year ago |
| Hahaha - you too, huh? Love this song in any version! |
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| Fisherman's Cottage by mabdon | 1 year ago |
| Hey Thanks! I myself was questioning the "far away effect" on the first part. I was hoping to communicate some distance, but wasn't overly happy with the end result! Ironically, the accordion was TOO loud the day I went to finalize the track - so i turned it down... lo and behold, I agree - now it's too quiet! ShadowofNine - Thank you SO much for your ear! |
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| Make this moment last by MattFrance | 1 year ago |
| Matt, I love your voice. You've got some great lyrics in there too! Love the 'cowboy - ploughboy' rhyme! You know, i really kind of like it as-is without drums and bass. It leaves it as fragile as this moment you're writing about. |
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| That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (The Door) by mabdon | 1 year ago |
| Dyl - you're right on the mark, there. I can think of few songs i've written where I couldn't pick out the major influence - and in this case - you're spot on. If the National didn't exist - i doubt this track would sound the same. I certainly hope to get to a point where I'm drawing on the influences mentioned on my artist page - without specifically sounding like any one in particular! I fear I'm just too early in the journey to have achieved that! |
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| Fisherman's Cottage by mabdon | 1 year ago |
| To guide reactions a bit - my internal 'artist' is telling me that there's still something missing from this one - feel free to postulate as to what that might be |
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| Say 'I do' by MattFrance | 1 year ago |
| Agreed - GREAT guitar work. I like the phrasing - it's not intuitive from the get-go, which is a quality i really value in music. The lyrics are simple and yet communicate exactly what you would want them to. I like the second set of vocals there. Gives the ear something new to attach to after we've already heard the chorus. I also like the higher pitch that makes it just a bit more urgent. 2 thoughts - and the stronger of the two criticisms is this: Why isn't this available for me to download Then i can pass it on to others when they ask me for new singer/songwriters!Thing #2. The end of the song repeats 4 times "You know I love you so won't you say I do", and diminishes in energy each time, more or less. However, the change in energy between iteration #1 and #2 is a large change, whereas the change from #2 to #3, and then #3 to #4 is much less. I think by having one of the voices sing a melody that's higher in pitch that the two of the second iteration (but not as high as that of the 1st) might smooth the transition from one phrase to the next? |
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| Sleep (DI) by becwil | 1 year ago |
| Mmmmmm - makes me want to listen to the whole collection! Have you ever listened to Kitaro by chance? A couple of the sounds you used take me back to his ethereal soundscapes. Who would you cite as your major influences here? |
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| Sunrise over Sea (dead animal trilogy) by MattFrance | 1 year ago |
| This is the first time i've listened to your work - loved your original lyrical content, and your voice is a great instrument to tell the story with. Well done. I like the tuning you used! I might be too picky, but it also sounds like one of your strings is just slightly out of tune here - only apparent when you've got octaves on different strings. How do you go about recording your acoustic by the way? I've not been happy with how mine comes out sounding. |
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| Kuchisake-Onna by ZipZipper | 1 year ago |
| Dark and haunting! Certainly fits the theme you described in the notes! Great production quality! | |
| Post war confusion by AndyDee | 1 year ago |
| Ooh, about halfway through it starts to remind me of the Lord of the Rings Soundtrack (possibly my favorite of all time) - so LOVING that theme in this work. Just got to the part with the haunting bells - which reminds me of the music used in the Fable video game series - but I very much like the haunting nature of it! Can't wait to hear the finished product! My other favorite moment is when you melt from a minor chord to a major one, just before you oscillate between a major and minor chord a few times, roughly 1/3 of the way though. I'm wondering if there might be something to add at this moment that would command a bit more attention. Your first theme catches attention by very nature of being first. The third section features the high vocals, the fourth has the bells. Might there be something distinctive to add to the portion about 1/3 of the way through? Maybe not! Just a thought. |
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| Perpetuum Mobile II by soulima | 1 year ago |
| Whimsical and bouncing - yet still complex! Well done! | |
| Cleveland by Fenzakerus | 1 year ago |
| Hey how'd you get your acoustic guitar to sound like that? I like it! | |
| A Still Life by schubertiad | 1 year ago |
| Shoot. The lyrics were "Wake us to a new life" - not Take. My bad. You posted the lyrics - the least i could do is read them, eh? Where might one download this song by the way? |
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| stella maris by schubertiad | 1 year ago |
| Great originality of lyrical content! And yes - I think Pink Floyd fans would find something they like here! Well done! |
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| A Still Life by schubertiad | 1 year ago |
| Mmmmmm yes! Your choral work and your alternative bend come together beautifully here! I love your penchant for off-kilter chord progressions! I greatly value unpredictability in music and this is great! Have you ever considered adding any other instruments toward the end to increase the urgency at all? Maybe you wouldn't WANT to create that feel though, since it might serve to be simply beautiful - but I could image some drums or bass starting about 3/5 of the way through and then cutting off again "Take us to a new life" (or at least i think that's what your lyrics are) |
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| On the Banks of the Seine by mabdon | 1 year ago |
| oh, thanks! I must have missed that before! | |
| That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (The Door) by mabdon | 1 year ago |
| Oh! Ha! I completely forgot to mention that this song flows directly into another that I haven't yet uploaded because I haven't finished it! Yes - that ending would seem quite truncated the way it is - glad to know people are listening critically I'll post the second half - entitled "Visions of Eternity" when I finish it (based on Salvador Dali's visual art by the same name) |
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| Greyed Rainbow by mabdon | 1 year ago |
| Thanks for your comments - you know, I thought about reintroducing that guitar at the end to give it 'bookends' so to speak - so with your encouragement, I think I'll look into doing that. I've got a short laundry list of things to alter in each of these tracks. | |
| On the Banks of the Seine by mabdon | 1 year ago |
| Thanks, guys - good thoughts. No, i usually don't ever use that much reverb... ever! But to capture the impressionism, especially one set next to flowing water, my hope was to make something a little less tangible and a little more ethereal. I could think about adding some acoustic guitar... Here are the lyrics: Since I was a little girl/ I envisioned a body placed next to mine/ To share in temporal blisses such as this:/ to watch the waters pass us by/ But now that I've rowed here, alone/ I see as clear the reflection of the stucco home/ I quite prefer to be solit'ry and so I ask/ "If not where, then, would I place my hat?" |
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| Kyrie by schubertiad | 1 year ago |
| What a great progression! I love the major/minor interplay you speak of. I would LOVE to hear a blending of your alternative and classical styles - the organ backdrop, maybe even the choir, with your voice in the foreground. Maybe you've already done that somewhere and I just haven't listened to it yet! |
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| Sleepyhead by Rusticalia | 1 year ago |
| Nice! How'd you get the guitar to sound so good on Garageband? mine always comes out sounding too 'fake'. Did you use a condenser mic? Reminds me of Teitur or Gary Jules work. |
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| Five Short Poems of Walt Whitman: Gliding o'er All (For SATB Choir) by schubertiad | 1 year ago |
| Oh nice! Sounds like Eric Whitacre's stuff, which i love! | |
| Round the Bend by schubertiad | 1 year ago |
| Yes! Love this song! I like that it's unabashedly catchy, but then has elements that are very non-intuitive like the chord progression that kicks it off and follows the chorus. Maybe my favorite song on this site thus far! | |
| Punch the Wall by brewchugger | 1 year ago |
| Well done - a solid tune. Not in my usual 'wheelhouse' of genres, but this makes me like country a bit more. Great background harmonies on the chorus! Voice has a lot of character too. I really like it - just watch pitch here and there, as in the end of the bridge with the words "For Me". Unless intentional! Keep doing what you do! GREAT instrumentation! |
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| Dead Red Metal by VignettingLoophole | 1 year ago |
| Wow did NOT see that coming. Love the track! | |
| Are You Ready? by Sabine | 1 year ago |
 Great work! Production sounds pretty near professional! I'm really impressed! Lyrics are great too! I love the way it's got just a bit more intensity in the chorus that matches well with the lyrics! The reason I joined this site was probably different than most, and that was for constructive criticism - and so the reason I would give 4 on creativity is that it does seem to lean heavily on Imogen Heap's work. But that's natural for any artist (I can't write a single song where i can't pick out my principal influence) so my encouragement is to find what elements of this are unique to you and keep developing and heading in that direction! Great work! Keep it up! |
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