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It's fine, I still welcome everyone & everything in these topics. One EP isn't too much at all--though I don't have Spotify on this current phone (and let my premium subscription lapse after the main ranking topic ended), so I listened to it on Bandcamp... which I hope was fine? It didn't have whatever the last bonus track was, but then I'm not entirely sure if it was on Spotify either... if it was, I'll work on listening to it tomorrow,

Hope: I really like the ambiance of the track (it's perfect for gazing out at the beach on a dark night and being mildly sad about things), with the only flaw being that it's too short... leaning towards an 8?

....eh, who am I kidding, I give ridiculously high marks to short songs all the time. I was this close to trying to nominate a 7 second long Game Over jingle at the VGM rating topic last night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guHN5Fr-2SQ

Don't care that it's only 7 seconds long, don't care that it's simple, I actually really like that little tune. Decided against entering anything that short though.

Aaanywho, let's just bump Hope up to a 9, because why not?



The River: 6.5. Good band, good singer, not entirely sure why I don't feel like giving a higher score right now. Will probably listen to it again some other day--coming directly after Hope gives it a bit of an advantage.

The Sinking Question: 7. Good lyrics.

The Thing With Feathers: 5.1; when it comes to religious choir type music, this isn't the best or worst example... it's fine? I really don't have much reaction to it.

The Baptism: Complicated. Somewhere between 5 & 7, depending on how twitchy I'm feeling in regards to overly religious music that day.

The Downpour: Ah, another song right in that spot of "sad, but not overwhelmingly so" that I seek.

Again I pray for rain
But a downpour wouldn't numb the pain

Yeah, that's about what I was looking for. Let's go with an 8 here.



Overall Rating: 7-ish. The quiet ambiance of Hope (which doesn't sound hopeful to me at all, but perhaps that's just me or it's an ironic title or something) is one of the best tracks in this topic; Downpour is a good follow-up, as is Sinking Question though I probably liked it more before learning what the EP was actually about (I think the story is more direct in Sinking Question than the other songs, but then I like the song & lyrics enough to...kinda look the other way, a bit.)



And one quick VTuber ranking

haneta chika - dameningen parade (for BOTCHIBOX): 8.5? It's pretty. No idea what the lyrics are, but I suspect this is one of those songs I like more without context.

Forgive the only one ranking. I perhaps should have tried alternating songs from the two of you, but listening to the EP in one sitting made sense and that's just how the night wound up. I should get more in tomorrow.
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PICARD IS SAD BECAUSE HE LOST. HE'S REAL SAD. HE'S EVEN MORE SAD THAN THAT.