Hello! This is a review for the NGUAC competition.

I've gone over one or two general categories of issues specific to your song, and one section of things I think also deserve complimenting. I prefer being very direct with my critique, none of it is meant to offend. Thank you for your understanding!

Constructive Criticism:

- Let's start with the melody! You have chords and melody, but... they're a tad disconnected from one another, especially in the first section. A good way to check your melody for relatively simple ones is to check and make sure each major note of the melody (such as those on downbeats) is on a chord tone, with other notes used as embellishments and passing tones between them. This becomes less of an issue later in the piece... but the rhythm instead gets very disjointed starting at 1:18. There are some examples of pieces with very odd rhythms (such as this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2GeYwvqPv4) but they also tend to revolve around this entirely, delaying and altering other aspects of the piece to fit around them. If you do plan to experiment quite this much with rhythm, I would highly recommend analyzing other pieces focused on experimental rhythm to see how they remain recognizeable and not overly disorienting.

- And let's move on to mixing! So, I see you already had a review mentioning the mixing of this track a bit - however I'd like to really dig into this in detail. There are actually a couple factors leading to different sections sounding very... different in terms of loudness. The first section has a lot of high peaks but is otherwise relatively empty, so it has spikes in loudness. The later sections, however, seem to be compressed quite strongly and also have very boomy bass (possibly with reverb). This actually results in the effective loudness being greater on a consistent basis compared to the individual loud drum hits in the first section. In either case... either too much compression or not enough, there needs to be more balance here - and importantly, there also needs to be less reverb and boom in the bass later. That can really mess up a mix and make it feel much louder than it otherwise would. It can also be rather straining on the ears.

Compliments to the Composer:

- Okay, seriously though, I do actually really like the first section outside of the melody. The later sections have some very neat sounds and can be quite intense (as I believe the intent was). The chords aren't bad either, and some of your drum loops like the one clearly audible around 2:00 are very nice and tasteful.

Final score: 5.5

Transitions are basic and sorta weak . The foley in the start (and kicks I guess) are kinda too loud in comparison with the rest of the track. But honestly this is a very creative track. I wish you the best of luck in NGUAC 2021 ;)

Hmmmm.. Interesantes experimento, pues quedo un proyecto bastante loco a decir verdad jaja. Tiene estilos combinados y una composición dudoso. Pero suena cool B-)(^o^)