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Quarl AIM 2022 Review
Composition/Structure (0-10), Production (0-10), Emotion (0-10), Relevance to Artwork (0-10)
Droid, MEAT: 10,9,10,10

LMAO, photography isn't allowed in the art portal. PsychoGoldfish using his privilege's to break the law, tsk tsk. I won't tell anyone if you don't.

The classic punk rock compliments the BBQ setting oddly well. I must be pretty old for this to jive as it does but it does. Lyrics obviously echo the "illustration" nicely. You compressed the shiz out of that track. I often tell people "you don't know your limits until you mix a few bricks" but you must have taken that to heart and mixed one fuck of a brick. Tracks a little over compressed but I'll forgive it this time. The track is actually wonderfully mixed despite that. Only thing I could think to do to tighten up the mix is an EDM trick to sidechain certain instruments using that kick drum to get crisper sounds. The kick drum is thumping in a way that obnoxiously fights with the surrounding sounds for emphasis. You can fake sidechaining if you have multiple tracks in a software sequencer, automation lanes can push certain conflicting textures out of the way for a moment. I'd have done something like this to the bass and rhythm guitar tones but I'm not exactly a punk rock recording expert so don't ask. It's hard to nitpick this kind of stuff because punk is so traditionally recorded in garages with cheap 8 track recorders and like 5 mics found at various garage sales within walking distance of your grandma's place. YOU DON'T THINK I KNOW THE STRUGGLES? I AM PUNK ROCK DROID I WAS BORN IN 1989, WHICH IS SOMETIME SLIGHTLY AFTER PUNK ROCK WAS INVENTED. I GREW UP IN A TIME THAT REMEMBERED THE TIME WHEN PUNK WAS PUNK, NOT THIS POP LIMP BLINKIN PARK 182 SHIT. YOU EVER GO TO A SHOW WHERE PEOPLE THROW UP ON EACH OTHER DROID? YOU EVER DRINK PISS? YOU EVER MOSH SO HARD YOU LOST A KIDNEY DROID? Oh wait, your profile says you're 93 years old and handsome. I bet you remember a time when "punk rock" was legit ragtime music. You were probably there when dirt and music were simultaneously invented, I envy you Droid. For a 93 year old man your skin is very taught and soft. Sorry, I didn't mean to get so close to you... look, I have a thing for men over the age of 90, I thought I saw you on tinder earlier? Send more meat pics...

Would have been great to have the lyrics written out in the author's comments. I'd love to see if there is a visible structure in how it was written. I can make out most of the lyrics but if there was a hook or something it would have stood out a little more. I've been coming back to this song a lot for repeat listens. It's such a classic sound that I'm really happy you made it into the contest. It was such a nice throw back to simpler times. My taste in music got so stuffy and arrogant after my middle school punk rock phase but I still bump some NOFX and Me First And The Gimme Gimme's from time to time. I remember every word of every song they wrote. Personally, my taste for punk led to ska, ska led to metal, metal led to post hardcore, grindcore, idm, dnb, jazz and so on. It's a gateway anthem genre. I suppose punk will never die so long as there are people willing to roar idealistically. I took off one point to production because it was the only thing I could really nitpick. I didn't really need to say any of this but I felt like everyone deserved some feedback and I just really liked this one Droid. I wish you had wrote a little bit more about the recording process or what was going on in that head of yours but I'm familiar enough with you and your work that I have a hard time chastising you for not getting a little more personal in the comments section. You're lucky the music managed to speak for itself, often it doesn't and I was left trying to make my own conceptual connections.

PS, nice "meet up" wordplay with that title :3

this song makes me want to meat up with my friends more often

I pulled my pork to this 😎

<3 love love love