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Illburns Ruins
Get Jinxed
H.G. Virus

Both songs in the first match were only "okay" to me. I don't really have a lot to say here so lets just move right along 'cuz I got things to say about the other two.

So, Craggy Coast is my favorite of the setlist for PMD2 (actually my preferences of that list go almost perfectly in reverse number order...). For a calm, pleasant-ish track (something I can be pretty picky about probably), I enjoy the sort of weirder surreal feel this gives while still being nice. I really like the up-tempo bit starting at :15, especially the wild but very quiet instrument in the back. Some of the calmer parts of the song I can be a bit more iffy on, and the instrumentation sort of feels a bit "plain" to me, but this is still a great song that I like. And hey, it's up against a vocal song should be a no-brainer right? Nope. Somehow, Get Jinxed is one of very few vocal songs I can actually enjoy, let alone tolerate. I really wish Get Jinxed didn't have the singing, because unlike a lot of other vocal songs, I really feel like the instruments here would totally be able to stand nicely on their own. Maybe not so much at the very start where they're more of a repetitive backing to the vocals, but after that they work real well overall and I can get really into both how the instruments sound & the tune they play. And honestly, the vocals really aren't as "unlikeable" to me as a lot of other vocals can be, even as the girl sometimes kinda transitions between singing and screaming for a second somehow. Heck, at their best -- their best -- they can even kind of work with the song for me. Not everywhere but like, particularly at :43 where she says the word En-er-gy with the notes, like the combination of both the pitch of her voice & the pitch of the notes. Mostly just that one word but, coming from me that's pretty exceptional. Gosh I really love the whole long section at :37 - 1:01. Don't really like the way she goes blah blah blah at the start though but that's just the start, a lot of songs have dumb starts. Man both of these songs are way too good compared to others in this contest, this being an initial loser bracket match is just painful. Man I kind of feel like this is the sort of match that's exactly what the "Listen to both songs!!" rule is all about. Maybe I shouldn't even vote here with how close these songs somehow are to me but, perhaps this is some combination of how rare I can enjoy a vocal song + a new good find vs. an old good find I'm already "used" to, + just how ridiculous it would be for me to vote this way but I'm honestly kind of leaning towards Get Jinxed with it's overall fun dark digital energy in keys I really like, vs. how I feel about Craggy Coast's "pleasant"-ish second half I'm sorry Mycro !!!

H G Virus is another song that I really wish didn't have vocals & I think the song would really work better with out them. That's a pretty silly statement though because well to be perfectly I'm not really even sure if they are actually "vocals" but those mouth noises doin the beatboxing beat are just super off putting to me. But the rest of stuff here is this weird cool abstract, appealingly unstructured stuff. Galactic S O U L is more of the type of song I might not think would really work even without the vocals -- the backing's really simple and repetitive, the sort of thing for vocals to stand on their own or some thing probably. Anyway the bass synth in S O U L is pretty cool but I don't care for the big band drums. This write up probably sounds more negative towards the song than I actually am, there are other cool elements to the song like , some stuff with the way the song turns towards the middle. Not enough to outweigh it's faults for me compared to the H G Virus though. if you combine the letters H G S O U L you can make the word GHOULS. wow spooky just in time for hallo ween
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