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Review #5 Jun Buddahfly "He looks back" 09/12/2007 12:31 AM
Pretty brilliant stuff here. A simple piano hook leads you into a very stylized falsetto vocal line, very reminiscent of radiohead. The music continues to build, adding layers of drums and a slightly more emphatic vocalization, which then bleeds into some ambient synthesizer.
Not my favorite kind of music, but nearly perfect in its execution. There are a couple of hitches where the vocalist slides out of key, or catches in his throat, but these are very minor, and easily fixable in a re-recording, or another take.
A little bit of polish on this song, and it could play on a Clear Channel station. As it stands right now, you should be sending it off to every non-profit college station you can find. They would eat it up.
A video would be good, for this band.
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Review #4 C.I.N.O (Brooks) "Head In The Whip" 09/12/2007 12:15 AM
Ugh. This is what I hate, some guy rapping about getting head in his car. Good for you. Did she have a name, did she deserve to be objectified in a song, and did somebody’s daughter deserve to just be “head in the whip.” This is beneath even reviewing. I would say good luck in the competition, but I wouldn’t mean it.
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Review #3 New Royalty "Find my way (Go Gettaz... 09/12/2007 12:10 AM
OK, not the biggest fan of “gangsta” rap. I’m a huge fan of hip hop though, and this rides the line in my humble opinion. The beats are really stripped down and allow the vocals to shine through. For my tastes the verses skirt too far in to the rap side of things, but I like the sound of it overall. All the vocalists have smooth voices and very distinctive styles.
The only thing I don’t like is the last verse. It is like the Pras verses on Fugees albums. They stick out like a sore thumb and get me thinking, “Which of these things is not like the other?” Where everything else seems really smooth and is delivered with a lot of soul, the last verse just sounds like someone trying to be “thug,” and not really being that convincing.
The hook is pretty standard fare, with a syncopated R’n’B vocal pattern, and some backing vocals. It sounds good, but it really pretty standard fare.
What impressed me is the piano line that runs through the whole song. It is catchy and simple, and this song could stand to have that replaced with live piano, as opposed to synthesized piano. It would really step up the sound a lot to have live instrumentation for the beats.
Overall a very good track.
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