I like the ominous beats at the beginning and the cool phasing effects. The sudden mood change at :19 threw me off a bit, and there are a number of other abrupt transitions later in the piece - :23, :31, :47, etc. There’s also not a ton of harmonic depth to the piece, despite the cool mixing effects and engaging percussion. I think you needed a bit more of a narrative flow to the piece to keep the listener grounded throughout. Right now, it’s hard to get an overarching sense of progression from this. That said, the rhythmic aspects of the piece, sound design, and mixing are all really nice. The composition and arrangement just need a little more attention to detail imo. Keep at it, DarthWeather! :)

Mixing, mastering, and balance
2/2
Structure, transitions, phrasing, and variety
.25/1.5
Melody, tonality, harmony, and texture
.75/2
Instrumentation and sound design
1/1
Emotion, atmosphere, and catchiness
1/1.5
Originality and uniqueness
1/1
Overall (how do the elements above interact?)
0/1
Composite score
6/10

Interesting soundscape going on here. The super high 15-20khz here is killing me though on those arpeggiating instruments. Watch for that.

Definitely a lot of interesting textures. Gorgeous chords at the 50 sec or so mark. I'd have liked that to continue briefly. But I'm definitely not complaining.

As for speech, it definitely sounds quite human, but I don't know what the hell is going on. If it's not "I'll be back" I am severely disappointed! T_T

Probably the weakest aspect of this piece, if any, is structure. It more ends sounding a noise scape, I mean, no obvious verse, chorus, etc, to keep my reptile brain processing this strange input as super srs music stuff. Drums also had a hard time peeking through the mix. I would turn down a lot of your synths before applying compression so they come to the forefront.

But I enjoyed nonetheless. Thanks for coming out to NGUAC!