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:

- This develops a little... too slowly. Every change comes in 8 measure looped chunks. While there's nothing wrong with organizing sections like this, there needs to be variation within sections to maintain interest. In tracks that slowly add and remove elements, the elements themselves often have some kind of modulation to evolve over time, and/or have syncopation to keep them interesting. For example, a delay or slow filter sweep opening up a lowpass gives the listener some feeling of development. Drum fills will also add some variation in the middle of loops to maintain engagement. Phaser and flanger use is also extremely common in synthwave and adds some easy audible variation. For examples of literally all of these, try listening to this synthwave track as a reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVkZAftv9NI

- You definitely may want to have some variation in chord progression. At the moment, it only trades off between two chords alone, with very clear changes between them and transposition of the melody rather than weaving the melody inside the progression in its own way. Try adding some contrast between sections with a different chord progression, countermelodies, or even some changes in the drumbeat.

Compliments to the Composer:

- Quite honestly, there isn't anything particularly wrong with this track aside from how flat it is. The mixing is solid even if the bass is slightly boomy, the sounds themselves aren't bad from a basic standpoint, the actual arrangement and progression of elements doesn't have anything in particular wrong with it. It's a perfectly average track.

Final score: 6