REVIEW TIME!
1. Starting off with a song with a rather high pace. I love the catchy drum beat. Haha, it suddenly stops, and then starting off again just as suddenly as in the beginning. It makes the song exciting. Later on, lots of different sounds are mashed together (I love the piano notes!)
2. Sun hands by Local Natives! I really like this song, but I don’t know how to describe it… I love how it gets more rock-y (? Lol) in the end. And his voice… Perfect :awesome:
3. Oneee twoo three four… BEACH HOUSE TIME! Apple Orchard is one of the first songs by them I heard, and I’ve loved it ever since I first heard it. The slow, dark beat, the lyrics, the voice… I don’t know what else to say, honestly. :wacky:
I’m starting to wonder who made this tape, it’s so awesome this far.
4. Definitely the Shins, but I don’t know this song… Starting off with a rather slow drum beat, then I can hear something that reminds me of a keyboard’s lame imitation of strings (?), and so the singing starts. I have a hard time hearing what he says, but I like this song, it’s really catchy. I have a feeling this will be stuck in my head all night. :mellow:
5. SNOW BRIGADE BY MEW. I want to know who made this tape, right now. This is one of my favorite songs ever. I love how it has really rough and dark sounding guitars through the whole song, and Jonas’ really high voice to it. And the lyrics… Ahh.
6. Weird sounds in the beginning, kind of makes me think of the Knife, for some reason. This is followed by happier keyboard tones. A man’s voice, really calm, not low, not high. In the middle, the song slows down… The weird sounds again! Not as much like the Knife this time, though.
Wow, I thought it was going to tone down now, but the pace is actually getting faster! I can hear a really awesome guitar riff. Great song, I want to know who this is! :wideeyed:
7. A calm, almost melancholic acoustic guitar opens this song. The singer, who is a man (I’d love to hear some more female vocalists!) has a calm and kind of dark voice (this one too). Somewhere in the middle of the song, I can hear grand piano and a child laughing. I liked that, especially the piano! This is something I’d listen to on a rainy day, on a car ride maybe… But I can’t say I loved it. This song is ok.
8. Something that sounds like piano, some other weird sound, drums, a man humming and an electric guitar make this intro interesting. Then this man starts singing, I can’t say I love his voice, but it’s not bad either. More background noises and more humming, now his voice sounds more distant. I like the feeling of this song, it’s kind of dark, and it makes me think of a city at night, with all the noises/sounds that are mixed here. Not crazy about it, but I liked it!
9. E is for Estranged by Owen Pallett. As I said before, I really like piano in songs. The intro is amazing, and his voice is so beautiful. This song is like a dream, up in the clouds… LOOK HOW CHEESY I CAN BE. :mellow: Anyway, the violin is really nice, as usual in his songs, and I like how the pace kind of picks up towards the end, to slow down again and then fade out… Ten points to my mixer.
10. Sudden drums, and an acoustic guitar… THIS IS MUTEMATH. I know I’ve heard this song before, somewhere… Anyway, this is kind of slow, as the previous songs, (and I like it), but the singer’s voice is more confident this time (just my weird opinion, but whatever). Acoustic guitars, dreamy (mew-ish, I admit it) sounds, really good drum beats and the lyrics… “It’s alright, it’s alright”. I really have to listen more to Mutemath!
11. This song has no intro. I usually like intros, but this song obviously doesn’t need any, it’s good anyway. That totally made sense, I know. Well, as a big fan of high vocals and dreamy music, I really like this. I don’t know how to describe this; it’s nothing like anything I’ve heard before… At the end, the feeling kind of changes, becoming more mysterious, I don’t know really. I have to check this band out.
12. Whoa, track 11 ended suddenly, and Lasting Echo by Fictionist started playing! I love you for putting this song on the tape. I love Fictionist, one of my favorite bands, I don’t think there’s anything else to say. :heart:
13. This is not as calm as the previous songs, and I liked that. The song has a really long intro, and it’s kind of pop-ish, very catchy. A male vocalist again, and no, his voice is not dark. I like the outro!
14. Haha, I was just waiting for a Sigur Rós song! And speaking of high voices, Jónsi is the king. Gong is such a beautiful song, I almost get frustrated because I don’t speak Icelandic! What else can I say? This is just great.
15. Piano, again. But no high voice! Is it the National? It’s just a guess, I haven’t listened to them so much. Anyway, I’m not a huge fan of his voice, but the song is good! I like the trumpet sounds in the middle, haha. The drums make me think it’s going to burst out and speed up (word fail), but it doesn’t. It totally changes in the end, though. This is a good end of an awesome mixtape.
Thank you for making a spare!
AND NOW… GUESSING TIME.