yo! your track has a nice melody and some very interesting fills and transitions. the chords are simple but fun and effective, and the structure was quite tight, which i appreciate a lot!

overall i think the song was missing detail in the mix and instrumentation - the two main sections didn't have enough differentiation and there weren't any underlying harmonic/rhythmic devices behind the kick-chord-snare wombo combo. i think that line in the breakdown should get another turn towards the end before the slowdown. but the killer is the lack of top-end percussion, to me there's a unhelpful lack of momentum as a result of the very straight, plodding percussion. the drum samples are very stock sounding and don't seem to have any extra layering or width to them. would be good to have an alternating stereo clap layer over the snare or something.

the bottom end of the mix is really bloated and i think it's almost entirely the fault of the kick drum. i'd take a multiband comp to it and slam the sub-80Hz on it with a long release time. currently it takes a long time to bottom out and this robs the bass layer of its own energy. the amount and length of reverb on the snare is also kinda bonkers, the sidechained reverb effect is cool in the bridge but it makes the main sections feel too distant. you want the main sections to feel closer than the breakdowns and buildups so that there's an effective release of tension when the drop happens.

anyway that's my take on this track. congrats on making the cut! excited to hear what you come up with in the next round of the nguac doodad :)

Nice soft, subtle intro. I'd have appreciated just a little bit less ghosting on those snares just to let that happen at some point later in the song.

Otherwise I have very few points of critique other than not liking a super deep sidechain so early on in the song -- before we ever hear a drop. Also, your transitions are very sibilant. That's fine on my monitors, but it might be really airy on a pair of commercial headphones, which tend to have a bellcurve sound.

I'm not a huge fan of such long reverb tails on your snare. It's creating a real high washing sound.

I would also turn down your lead and harmony synths down about a dB. They're so much louder than your bass and percussion that I'm having a hard time getting into the groove. 1:50 is an example of just how much louder they are, as well as 2:02. That's really out there compared to your bass and percussion, and it doesn't ever seem to come on.

The tempo of this song could probably stand to be just a little faster. 5 to 10 bpm

The slowing down outro was a nice touch. I would have liked to hear a I chord on the end, just ringing out for a second or so.

Good work!

Thanks for coming out to NGUAC!

Wow that should be new theme for some cool youtubers! It should be on the radio!

Right off the bat, very refreshing intro, that synth is very smooth, the drop at 0:39 went to a different direction than i thought, this give me that happy feeling just like the first time i heard "Eurodancer" years ago, this is pretty sweet!

i love how the arpeggio at 1:30 --> just kinda fades into the background seamlessly
the only gripe i got is that the riser parts feel thick, it makes me expect a massive sound but the drop feels slightly thin, but regardless of that, this is an awesome tune!
i would love to add this to Geometry Dash.

4/5
Awesome job, keep it up!
-Pandasticality