The accompaniment at the start (and all the way through, although less noticeably) was a Casio PT-80 that I've had since the mid-80s. It makes quite a cool, if slightly limited, sound. Hell yeah. I have a PT-30 and I do love a lot of those sounds. My shadow for Blind Spot has a few tracks of MT-65 ...

Blind Spot by Vom Vorton In with a shadow for this round! I used egg shaker, tambourine and wood block. The song is about the period in my early 20s where I was drinking far too much in a semi-successful attempt to combat social anxiety. Which is unfortunately harder to pull off in your 40s so mayb...

Berkeley Social Scene - nice roomy sound and I like the scratchy vibe of the main guitar part, the dissonant verse riff is cool. The verse vocals just don't really seem to fit the song to me, it feels like they should be a little more angular to suit the unsettling vibe. Chorus feels a lot more con...

Just had a listen, thoroughly enjoyed this! Always a fan of your fight entries and it's really sweet hearing a full album - great tunes and wonderfully jangly guitars throughout.

Vom - I saw you mentioned on discord reconfiguring this to avoid sounding like something else. i don’t think you sounded too much like that song - personally, I hear more Soft Cell and Muse here. That’s the sign of a good song - sounding familiar but nobody knowing exactly why. What you do need to ...

Holy crap! What a tense finale! I'll take the win of course, but there's no-one I'd rather be tied with than Stacking Theory, we staggered over the finishing line together! NUR ZWEI!

Thanks to all that voted really gives me reason to smile even though I'm knee deep in viruses.

Here's my hill, which is frequently selected by cyclists who want to punish themselves for whatever reason.

https://cyclinguphill.com/100-climbs/bank-road/

Also I seem to have celebrated the end of Nur Ein by catching COVID, whoop whoop

Ascent by Vom Vorton I'm acutely aware how many of my songs are about being sad lately, and I apologise. Believe me, I wish it wasn't the first thing on my mind most weeks! For this title and the end of this run of songs I wanted to try to write about climbing out of those lows and trying to find a...

Woo! Congrats Gizo, see you in the final! I know I've already gushed about the challenge, but I just want to say thanks for that again. I think sometimes it's hard to realise how much you're stuck in a rut until something forces you out of it. Hoping I can carry some of the joy and fun I felt workin...

Submitted! Absolutely loved this challenge, I was feeling really burned out but starting from scratch with a bunch of different instruments was a real shot in the arm. I had a ton of fun writing and recording this one, I hope that comes across to the listener!

Summer Robot by Vom Vorton I didn’t want to write about an actual robot, because I’ve kinda done that subject to death, so I came up with this idea about a pair of lovers who suffer from equal but opposite forms of seasonal affective disorders. We’ve all been there, right? For my sonic palette, I w...

The Alleviators - firstly and most importantly, this is gorgeous and definitely my favourite of the round. There is one thing that bugs me though, and that's the keys-on-desk sample - there's just too much of it, and it starts to grate and detract from all the other things I love about this song. W...

Thanks! Good challenge

Are you after different vocal styles though? Or are vocals kinda outside of the challenge as long as instrumentation is fresh? Asking for a friend who wants death metal grunts and screams on every track.

Novel by Vom Vorton lyrics: it's been a rough few years, okay samples: the main keyboard and bass sounds that drive the whole song were made using a kontakt instrument that I built out of samples from a 'dramatic reading' of part of Anne of Green Gables, found on the free audiobook website Librivox...

Sounds totally legitimate to me, and I don't see anything above that contradicts that.

Have some quick reviews, why not. The Alleviators - this is another very well-executed Alleviators track, but after the last few really hit me in my musical biases, this one is pushing in the opposite direction. So take my comments with a pinch of salt! The lead guitar feels like it clashes with the...

June Moon by Vom Vorton I was born in June and I think astrology is dumb. you say I can’t be trusted you discussed my lack of reason but the seasons and the planets can be blamed for all my crimes I’m not looking for excuses but the truth is out there somewhere I’m not trying to find it I’ll just u...

If you subscribe to a thread or subforum then you get notifications when people post. I usually have it turned on during Nur Ein so I don't miss out on the results, although they tend to be announced while I'm asleep anyway so it doesn't really help.

Aww yeah! The last time I won an immunity was four years ago, what a treat. Thanks judges! I couldn't have done it without those sweet Lowest Bitter harmonies.

I still intend to submit a song for June Moon, since I have it written (but not recorded) already.

Interesting, thanks. Can't hear any guest harmonies though so I'm afraid I'm going to have to rank you last.

Here, take some reviews, because I feel like crap today and need a distraction. Strong round! The Alleviators - I already mentioned in the discord that this reminds me of 'Stay' by Lisa Loeb, but really it's only the guitar part, and also I really like that song, so definitely not a complaint! Reall...