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Reviews for "[NGADM] Undertow"

Yo, Jimmypig! You're the fifth one to release your NGADM track thus far, and I continue to be impressed by the diversity across each one. This flows so freely from the softer, more ambient sections into the hard-thumping beats that I can't help but move my head to.

Your initial build is nice and steady, but also uniquely subtle, which I find to be refreshing and very well done. The percussion in this is absolutely fantastic! Just the right levels and velocities; kicks are nice and punchy with an appropriately airy hiss. Lots of awesome things are going on in the background, so it requires a couple times through to really dig into the depth of the music.

I really like the syncopation on the rather metallic-sounding instrument you used for your arps, though I'm not quite sold on some of the more atonal notes, especially when they seem to clash with the bass. It sounds good on its own, but when other things are going on around it, not so much...but hey, that's just my opinion.

The one thing that bothered me, as it is often does, is the way the song just stops so abruptly. The piano note simply cuts off, and that leaves me feeling a bit cold at the end of an otherwise epic ride. Let that final piano note play out, man! Do yourself a solid and fix that one thing. Believe it or not, that's the main thing keeping me from giving you full marks on this bad boy. Good luck, man!

Jimmypig responds:

Okay I updated my song! I tried not to add too much, just changed the harmonic part to make it fit better rather than be such a sudden change, added a few quality of sound changes and let that final note ring out properly!

Glad you enjoyed it :)