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Relentless Positivity Considered Harmful

By rplktr on October 13, 2024 10:34 pm

Pointless ceremony
So much self-punishment
Nobody asked you
Nobody needed you to

Pointless ceremony
Just like you said
It's all in your head

Opaque like water in darkness
Black like pools in caves

Tell a cloud from mud
Free yourself from harm

Face the longest shadow

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I welcome all critical feedback. Can relicense if needed, just ask. Back home again, so time for the usual suspects! It's been too long. Combining some of the previous '80s-inspired styles, converging into something.

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132 BPM, Eb-major, 5/4. My favorite Analog Rytm with its hybrid TR-707 kit. Stereo bass by a pair of Moog Mother-32s. Everything else Iridium. Vocals pitch-corrected with the new Live 12.1 AutoShift, let me know what you think.

This has a really nice eccentric 80s pop vibe to it. Very unique, but also very fun and warm and touching.

I haven't played with autoshift yet but this sounds great! Vocals could maybe be a little louder/more forward but I admit I'm trusting my ears/headphones lately.

"Face the longest shadow" comes out cancer with a bit of sharp tension, loved that moment, and a great play out. I get a bit of Laurie Anderson here with the vocals. Which is absolutely a fave for me so... this is just awesome lol.

You certainly captures that 80's sound, the vocals played against it in a curios manner.  At times it sounded like synthpop but also seemed to creep towards darkwave a little.  The vocal timing was rather atypical, I quite liked the effect.

neon liminal wrote:

I haven't played with autoshift yet but this sounds great! Vocals could maybe be a little louder/more forward but I admit I'm trusting my ears/headphones lately.

"Face the longest shadow" comes out cancer with a bit of sharp tension, loved that moment, and a great play out. I get a bit of Laurie Anderson here with the vocals. Which is absolutely a fave for me so... this is just awesome lol.

I gotta stop commenting on my phone. I have no idea why it decided to change "so clearly" to "cancer". Anyway, this was awesome.

This sounds liquid (it's a good thing, I just don't know how else to describe it). I love how the vocal and the instrumentation seem to be doing their own thing but it still works. That, along with the pads & reverb, makes the track sound loose and drifting. When it starts rocking out around 2:35 it hits that 80s pop feel square on.

It's like the one track buried on a soundtrack cassette that you assumed was a throwaway and never paid attention to, but one day you forgot to rewind after the hit song and you realise this gem is better than the hit song could ever hope to be and now you're obsessed with it.

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