Appropriately sugary. Well, mostly. The gated sixteenth-note synth (Grainferno?) doesn't let us forget the grinding issues underneath. But the shakers and open hats sprinkle down like powdered sugar. Bright overtones rise from the staccato chords (is that secondary dominant to dominant?). And the kick and bass bounce and burble throughout. The snare rushes in the transitions made me smile. And it's a good vocal melody here, though my favorite is the "I Want song" bridge melody. Seems like even in a hut in the ground, the narrator keeps looking up

Appropriately sugary. Well, mostly. The gated sixteenth-note synth (Grainferno?) doesn't let us forget the grinding issues underneath. But the shakers and open hats sprinkle down like powdered sugar. Bright overtones rise from the staccato chords (is that secondary dominant to dominant?). And the kick and bass bounce and burble throughout. The snare rushes in the transitions made me smile. And it's a good vocal melody here, though my favorite is the "I Want song" bridge melody. Seems like even in a hut in the ground, the narrator keeps looking up

After having a few weeks of fairly stock chords while I focussed on other stuff the chords are a bit more out there this week.

The main progression is the "Where is my mind?" progression in C so
C -> Am -> E7 -> F

The bridge then does the chromatic mediant shift I rely on a bit to much to go to Ab
Ab -> Fm -> Db -> Eb

Then at the end does a back door resolution to come back to the verse, but a tone up to go to D

D -> Bm -> F#7 -> G

And then does the classic half step key change into the outro to end up at Eb

Eb -> Cm -> G7 -> Ab

The track was heavily influenced by "Everything is awesome" from Lego movie both lyrically with the happy lyrics which hint at something darker going on and the unsettling constant key changes making it more and more hyper

[quote=sleepside]Appropriately sugary. Well, mostly. The gated sixteenth-note synth (Grainferno?) doesn't let us forget the grinding issues underneath. But the shakers and open hats sprinkle down like powdered sugar. Bright overtones rise from the staccato chords (is that secondary dominant to dominant?). And the kick and bass bounce and burble throughout. The snare rushes in the transitions made me smile. And it's a good vocal melody here, though my favorite is the "I Want song" bridge melody. Seems like even in a hut in the ground, the narrator keeps looking up[/quote] After having a few weeks of fairly stock chords while I focussed on other stuff the chords are a bit more out there this week. The main progression is the "Where is my mind?" progression in C so C -> Am -> E7 -> F The bridge then does the chromatic mediant shift I rely on a bit to much to go to Ab Ab -> Fm -> Db -> Eb Then at the end does a back door resolution to come back to the verse, but a tone up to go to D D -> Bm -> F#7 -> G And then does the classic half step key change into the outro to end up at Eb Eb -> Cm -> G7 -> Ab The track was heavily influenced by "Everything is awesome" from Lego movie both lyrically with the happy lyrics which hint at something darker going on and the unsettling constant key changes making it more and more hyper