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An indie song on the wonders of cougars.

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Review Request Club

It's always an idea to have the lyrics in the author comments, because some of your wording here is a little hard to decipher and so it might be tricky for some people to work out what you're saying. But anyway, onto the song:

0:04-Like how the song starts almost introductionlessly. The drums and bass work well together, however both come in quite abruptly, which is a little odd. Having some kind of bass drop into the beat or drum fill would have helped a lot.

The recording quality of the voice is noticeably subpar, however. You can hear a lot of the breathing and plosions of your voice, which are quite distracting and don't help the grand quest to work out what you're saying. The tone of your voice as well needs a bit more of a kick to it, because you sound kind of...bored, in places? Though that might have been due to the aforementioned recording problems.

0:43-Nice change to the chorus with the lead guitar, and slight change in the bass line. The bass line, while good, is a little simplistic, and as theretofor it's the only melodic instrument save the vocals, you could have embarked on a more ambitious bass line.
1:02-Here onwards sounded really cool, guitar-wise. Definite highlight of the track. You had a lot of them going on and a lot that came in and out which made a really nice instrumental section for about 40 seconds. To the point that when the vocals come back in I think that that mix works a lot better than what preceded it.

The guitars work brilliantly. If nothing else, think about rerecording the vocals, because the instrument work especially past that minute mark works just fine. Keep it up.

-Review Request Club

Sawdust responds:

Thanks man!

Cool :D

I like this submission. While I don't think it's your best, I'm still impressed. The lyrics are pretty cool, and the music itself is very catchy and I really enjoyed hearing it. The song picked up quite a bit towards the end, which I really liked, and now it's stuck in my head. Ah well, awesome job on this, man!

The melodies are brilliant. Well, I don't really like the melodies of the vocals much, but the guitars' melodies sounded really good, especially at 1:02 onwards. There isn't really much wrong with the melodies of the guitars (even though I think that the bassline could be a little better), but my main gripe with this would be the lyrics.

As sixflab said, the microphone is a bit too close to you when you're singing. In addition to that, the recording quality wasn't too good, even though I heard worse, but then again that isn't really your fault so I won't really whine about that. The singing was decent, but I think the lyrics definitely need to be a bit more lively, since they sound as if you're singing them while half asleep xD. Also, the lyrics were quite hard to understand, so I'm grateful you posted the lyrics.

The guitars were all nice quality, and the instruments all complimented each other extremely well. I think I heard more than just guitars in this submission, which really makes this song distinguishable from any other indie songs similar to this. Not really anything wrong with the instruments, nice job! Volume levels were also fantastic (except the lyrics which should be louder).

The transitions are also really smooth, except the one at the beginning where the vocals and drums seemed to jump out of nowhere (this might sound better if you did a drum roll before this part starts or something similar). The structure was really good, and as I said, I like how the song got more and more busy as it progressed. However, I think this lacks some bass or guitar solos though. The structure wasn't really that complex; you simply built the song up, introducing element after element, and then faded the whole thing out. Give it a few more solos and stuff to keep the listener interested. Variety was great, but the lyrics at the end got very repetitive. The intro was alright, but the outro was simple a fade outro and I don't usually like fade outros.

The drums were excellent. I liked the beat, even if it was quite simple, and the samples were great. The drums were also the right volume and I could hear them pretty well even though there were so many different instruments playing in the foreground. My only complaint which has to do with the drums was that they were so repetitive. I guess it might be me and my bias, but I don't really like drums which stay the same beat with a few open hats as small changes for almost two minutes and a half. I'm not saying to completely change the beat to other random beats throughout the song, but giving it more changes, maybe even adding some parts where the drums are softer would definitely help.

In conclusion, I think this is a really cool submission. I don't really like the vocals (although that's a biased opinion, since I never like vocals in general unless they're REALLY well done and not cheesy) and some aspects of the song were repetitive, but still, this is a great submission. Keep up the awesome work!
9/10
5/5

-Review Request Club-

Sawdust responds:

THANKS SO MUCH! Man it feels great to know that a submission of mine is good! I'm not a singer by trade but I really felt like writing a song with lyrics, so sorry for making the song suffer with my singing :P

I'm so glad that you liked it, thanks so much for the review, I'm glad just reading it. THANKS AGAIN.

Nice Lyrics XD

-This is just something that I could improptu play to make myself a little happier.

-I loved the overall concept of just talking about a cat and the different things that she was thinking of. The lyrics became repetitive at the end with the chorus being repeated a couple times but it doesn't take away from the song. You sing too close to the microphone at times since it picks up your breathing and makes it hard to hear the lyrics at times.

-The background music is layered nicely. The melody doesn't overpower the drums too much and you keep the guitar volume in check as to not be louder than the singing which is the case in a lot of music i've encountered here on newgrounds.

-Just find a better way to record your voice and it would improve the audio quality by a lot and make everything sound so much better.

-Review Request Club

Sawdust responds:

Okay, thanks!

But that wasn't about cats... lmao

But seriously, thanks for the review!

Decent singing, automated music.

I expected something worse, my dear Sawdust. Your singing is quite alright, with some work it can become great. Recording quality is OK too, have heard worse.

Although the music is computer-generated it sounds better than some of your other songs, especially the drums.

Overall a good song to chill out too. Lyrics would be great though cause it's hard to understand at times.

I really like the fading out at the end.

Keep up the good work,
watzmann

Sawdust responds:

T'was a cold december
She came in through a window
I was on fire
And she told me

Hon, I need a place to stay
In fact, i'll make it worth your day
While she was talking i was all hush
I knew what this dame was doing was

She spoke of islands
She dreamt of fleece
She was a cougar
She pounced on me

She spoke of islands
She dreamt of fleece
She was a cougar
She pounced on me

She spoke of islands
She dreamt of fleece
She was a cougar
She pounced on me

She spoke of islands
She dreamt of fleece
She was a cougar
She pounced on me

ALSO THANK YOU

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