Alright, snippets from first impressions! These are typed up as I listen to the songs but I'm going to avoid being too spoilery with what's posted.
First off, here's all the track times:
2:47 - 3:45 - 4:10 - 4:33 - 4:37 - 5:30 - 6:28 - 6:55 - 8:52 - 9:51
It’s quite a lot to take in on first listen, but I get the impression that even if this song doesn’t end up with a high score, I’ll probably check out an album from these guys out of curiosity.
The riffs themselves aren’t exactly special but they’re plenty competent and there’s a lot of meat to the track so there’s no time to get tired of any of them.
There’s a lot of pieces of this that I already dig quite a bit on first listen, but it loses me at other times. And I can’t say I’m the hugest fan of the female vocalist here.
The vocals are different but not horrid, and the guitar accompaniment is far beyond basic chords, but I don’t see myself getting more out of this on subsequent listens than I did on my first listen.
This on the other hand, is a really cool instrumental with a ton of good riffs and great energy throughout. The production is sludgy but not to the point where it sounds muddled.
I like the presence of the heavier guitar and bass where the other instruments are keeping a mellower feel, it works well, and the vocals are a bit off but have charm to them.
I love the presence of the organ throughout, and the song is impressively cohesive for something so crazy. The brief breaks to do something wacky fit in really well too and they’re gone quick enough that they don’t destroy the flow of the song.
The music isn’t overly complex, and not something “new”, but it knows what works and just does it really damn well, plenty well enough to let the raw emotion of the song seep through.
It’s upbeat and energetic, it’s pleasant to listen to, but it doesn’t stand out, and in a bad way.
I haven’t really talked much about the music, have I? I think that’s because, and I gotta be brutally honest here, it’s totally fine on its own, but it’s just completely overshadowed by what I’ve been listening to recently.
First impressions are non-indicative of the final scores, but if I had to guess, the score range here is going to be about 4.0 to 9.0. Could go lower, could go higher. On the whole I'm pretty happy with what I've been given, and three of you sent me some ridiculously crazy stuff too