by

Roland Sordid
(Sordid)

Decent orchestration, progressions are reasonably mellow and seem fairly well-put together. Sample quality is good, although the electric piano doesn't have enough volume change or offset use on it to be truly outstanding. There is a nice progression throughout the piece from a softer to a harder dynamic. After about the halfway point, though, the song loses a lot of polish with some very dissonant notes and chords. Seems somewhat rushed. A fair bit of emotion comes through, though, and that's what makes it better than average

This peice is a really nice tune. There could of been more variation in the song though. More stereo effects would of been nice. Above average in most respects. Everything else was pretty neat ;).

Although this is an interesting piece of melancholic music, there are some little imprecisions that hurt : the piano ends some patterns out of the harmony ; the bass do not always fits the grid. The sound is good, the stereo effects too, but the main theme is a little bit repetitive.

This song appears to have had some time spent on it - some good effort seems to have gone into writing it. The piano is quite good, and there are some good elements in the song. Unfortunately, together they don't work as well as they could. Some of the samples seem to be quite out of tune - the choir in particular. The sample set is quite decent although not outstanding. It needs better tuning, and some of the samples are a little bit poor, like the guitar sample. Orch hits are a little bit unoriginal, don't you think? Technically this is OK. The piano has been spread out over plenty of channels so it isn't cut off too soon. Envelopes have been used quite well. Panning has been used well enough too. The thing that lets this down is the form - although effort has seemingly gone into making it varied and giving it structure, it lacks a strong melody or hook or something memorable for the listener. It could use more of a verse/chorus structure. As it is, melodies and parts come and go, and nothing really sticks - in one ear, out the other. This is the song's biggest problem and makes it quite dull.

I am hard pressed to express what I think of this song. Most of the time it is really good, but now and then there is a chord or a phrase that leaves me wondering why and ruins the mood completely. Sample set is not the greatest out there but good enough. Too much and too fast ping-pong panning with the envelopes. You have a big problem keeping the song in line. First you seem to set something in motion just to end it before it actually even starts. Drum samples don't have edge, but otherwise the buildup part with the house-techno like bass-bassdrum background and distorted guitar works reasonably well. Or would work if it led anywhere. You do show promise, just be a bit more coherent when composing.