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[LB5 - Friendship]

Thursday!

This started off as a very pro-sounding song. I'm really envying your piano sounds by now. Though everything sounds gorgeous, and I like the chord progression a lot, it does start to get repetitive about halfway through the song. I'm nobody to talk about repetitivity, and it really isn't that bad at all, it just kept me hungering for something else to happen.

And something definitely did. When the percussion came in, I forgot this was just a seventeen-year-old composing music on his laptop. This was something I'd expect to hear in a movie, like Aaron said. It's amazing :) My ears are tearing up...

This song brought a smile to my face. I loved the second half, but the whole song was pretty fantastic overall. First digits skyward :)

Lublub194 responds:

You know this is every bit the motivation I need to make music. Comments like yours. Sheesh. That's a little ludicrous for you to think so highly of me, but I certainly like the praise :D

Thanks for the most aweeesome review sir :D

[LB5 - Restful Soul]

Wednesday!

Whoa. The first thing that struck me was how beautiful that piano sounds. And how reverb-y it was. I love reverb :D

Composition-wise. I love the accidentals / clashing eighth notes that came in every few bars. Those helped me connect with the feeling of discomfort, while the beauty in the slow strings and piano sounded extremely relaxing, like a great weight taken off someone's shoulders. I'd say this stuck pretty darn closely with your description. In fact, I wish an animator would stumble upon this and create one of those heartwarming shorts, because this is some great music!

I also really like the low strings playing at the end - having those softly fading out was much better than ending the song right there.

Great stuff here, I'm starting to really enjoy the fact that you had so much time on your hands. Off to Thursday's song.

Lublub194 responds:

Haha, you know when I first sat down and made this, I said to myself:

"Well, I bet I'd make Ben proud with all this verbalishicous reverb."

Haha, something along those lines.

I thought they clashed at first, and I really disliked them at first, but I hadn't changed it due to laziness, and then I grew to like them, thus they stayed :D

This was a crazy piece to write, and I'm glad to see you and some others enjoyed it! Thanks :D

[LB5 - Farewell]

Tuesday!

When I first heard the beginning, it sort of reminded me of something Motoro Faam would use to start of a seven-minute experimental piece with. I definitely wasn't expecting the strings and the bass notes on the piano, then I remembered who wrote this :)

I like the strings and the notes in the treble piano, but I can't really say I'm a fan of the bass notes in the piano. I don't know why, they just don't seem to fit. Maybe they're too heavy for my liking? It's a matter of preference.

Otherwise, good job! Nothing mind-boggling, but it's still a nice little piece. So far I'm liking Monday's the best, though. Off to Wednesday...

Lublub194 responds:

The bass notes on the piano are a little too strong. Though, due to be lazy, I'll probably not change it, haha.

I'm surprised people actually liked this one, this certainly wasn't one of my favorites in the least.

Thanks for the review! :D

[LB5 - The nerves]

Monday!

I love how this starts out, with the piano "strumming" a chord and then having the three notes played afterwards... Sounds sort of like a call-and-response thing, which is really nice.

The whole piece switches between both major and minor, but not far enough to either extreme for me to feel happy or sad. I can definitely see the inspiration from anticipation of the unknown, as it gives me images. I'm picturing an orphan finally being adopted, and although he's unsure whether he'll like his new parents, he's being optimistic. It's cute :3

Nice use of the flute, by the way. I'm going to show this to my sister, she loves flutes. Good work for only a day! Now on to Tuesday for me.

Lublub194 responds:

You've totally interpreted it how I want it to be.

Now mind you, as I said in the last song, nothing is anywhat the same, as I've come to a ton of... understandings, more or less. Yet, it still was suspenseful then.

Anyways, I'm glad you appreciated it! I certainly had an enjoyable time making it.

[(Hop) - Concrete Thought]

Huh.

While waiting for this song to load, I was thinking about the title and the description, and realized how easy it is to relate making music to doing #2. It's not the most pleasant of comparisons, so I'm not going to explain, but... yeah :P

As for the song itself. The atmosphere is great. I've been listening to a LOAD of dark ambient for the past two days, and I thought I was going to come out of that genre, but you've actually got some similar ambient effects here. Sounds really odd, in a good way.

I like that the classical side of things was kept on a relatively low volume, it sort gave me less to concentrate on melody-wise so I could appreciate the atmosphere better.

Cool stuff :3

Lublub194 responds:

You gotta experiment til you get something. Otherwise you'll have nothing =O

Anyways, I did sense a dark feeling while making it, but that's certainly okay, because I like it like that.

Classical always :D

Thanks man :D

[(Hop) - Supah-Fly]

Wellum.

This is the sort of thing I'd imagine hearing in a really cheesy 90's detective movie. And that's a compliment, because a better 90's movie would have hired a big-time composer who wouldn't be nearly this unique. So... yep.

Good sfutt. Keep it up, I'm glad you like making this :3

Lublub194 responds:

Haha, Awesome man. I can't see myself ever being a big time producer, but meh, maybe. Haha.

Thanks for the review :D

[Moonlight cathedral (Remix)]

Hmm...

I like the song, but some things don't sit quite so well with me. The strings sound alright, but the rhythm you used wasn't particularly mind-blowing. It just sort of blended in and carried on with the opening bit.

The drums sounded nice, no real complaints there.

Something I noticed right at 1:36. The tension in the strings resolves to a nice easy chord, but the shaky synth you have going switches to a note that keeps the tension going. It doesn't clash or anything, it just makes me feel uneasy. I'm not sure if I'm explaining this well enough :\

I do like the song, but it could be better.

ReFreezed responds:

I'm not sure what you mean, but I'm sure I could have done better. But this'll have to do.

Thanks.

Hmm... I think I know what you mean. I should have made the strings sound more like "The song isn't over! This is the fucking climax!!!". More like the shaky synth in other words. Power failure. lol

I do agree. (Though can't it always be better? :] ) Anyway, thanks for the review!

[Life (by ReFreezed)]

This is ironic.

I just uploaded an 8-minute track and thought I was being long-winded. Then I saw your Bandcamp and stumbled on this massive piece of audio.

So far, I'm only two minutes in, but I'm enjoying the journey. It has much more flavor than "The Kick," and it is indeed very relaxing. Once I get used to the kick, it starts sounding a lot like ocean waves, which is a very interesting effect. I like that things steadily morph into each other... soothing :)

I'm going to let this finish, then continue with my review...

Mmm... yep, that was lovely. Not too much of a variation between the first melodic bit and the second, but it still sounded pretty. Something tells me I'm going to put this on later tonight to fall asleep to.

Good work!

ReFreezed responds:

When I had finished recording the delay effect I looked at the time and was like "OMG, that's long! I have to add more instruments to make it more interesting!" as I hadn't planned this at first... Hey, isn't this the second time we're uploading similar tracks simultaneously? :O

"The Kick" had some flaws in it which I didn't really notice at first. Apparently, when you reset a knob's position in a plug-in in FL Studio then the action doesn't get recorded. :/ Anyway, I agree: it does sound a bit like ocean waves. Morphing ftw!

The second melodic part was more supposed to be an echo of the first part. Well, glad you liked it. :)

Thanks a lot for the review! I know I've been bad at reviewing stuff lately. :( I'll make sure to listen to AND review your song. Again, thanks!

[LB - Goodbye]

Poetic.

As I sit here waiting for my song to finish uploading, I read that line of yours about never having a reason to make music. I'm not saying that it could be turned into a poem, but that was a deep thought there. Makes a man think.

As for this song... I wouldn't go so far as to say it's your BEST work yet, but it's definitely high up there. The quality in composition and just the overall sound makes me cry. You really are better at classical music than me :)

I can't nitpick this. You're off the hook. My ears are watering for the next thing I hear from you, good sir.

Lublub194 responds:

Thanks man.

It's what I wrote after getting the news. I wrote this in 10 minutes. Seriously. Thus I am surprised that it got a good rating, but sadly that's what true emotion does to your music.

I'm glad you liked it, sadly I can't say I enjoyed making it.