Round 5 First Impressions!Litho: Despite going out of its way to sabotage itself at every possible turn, this song's style is far enough up my alley that I'm way into it anyways.
Faizoff: Really pleasant sound and some cool moments but it kinda feels like, a demo that needed just one or two more things to really push it over the edge, make it feel complete, y'know?
3. Part of this sounded like a late night talk show with special guest performers Boris and I wish more of the song sounded like that part.
Puppies: Sufficiently competent, will probably get a solid score, but… god, I really gotta do something about this kind of boringly safe submission. It's exhausting
Ariich: I have no goddamn clue what this is or what it's trying to do, all I know is that I kinda love it?
6. Really appealing sound to this, cool buildup, and… wait, that's it? Where's the rest of the song?
Lonestar: "Alright, so, we booked the wrong band to play at our anime convention, but we're just gonna roll with it and see what happens." What happened: A pretty solid song!
King: This is a nice song. A nice song that I don't really have any thoughts on but a nice song nonetheless.
9. I remember quite liking these guys the last time they were sent in one of my roulettes but this is… quite a bit different than what I remember from them. Not in a bad way, mind you.
10. Sounds like the emotional climax to a musical that doesn't exist, which would be fine and dandy if I cared more for musicals
HOF: Very pleasant and lush sounds here, but it's also the kind of slow-burn I know I'm gonna need to really sit with to properly digest.
TAC: Really cool guitar work on top of a pretty solid everything else makes for an enjoyable if not particularly outstanding tune.
13. Always interesting to see which of the legacy acts have aged more gracefully than others.
14. Even if I was really into the music - which I'm not particularly - god, those vocals are a hard sell for me.
Buddy: Everything I've heard from this album has had a wonky, stilted sound I've never cared for and I'm not sure this is going to fare much better.
16. Ahh, and the intentional cheating begins in earnest. This basically is just a <redacted> song, isn't it.
we'll do hangman after first impressions, but only once first impressions are properly done and dusted
also, can't forget to post the playlist if the playlist isn't really to be posted yet