Kwing's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Lost]

As others have said, the intro is nice and builds. There's some good variety here, though the mood is quite laid back. Overall a well-done track but not particularly exciting.

[Adventure]

As something to bump in the background, it's fine. Listening actively, it's not terribly groundbreaking, but it is done well, mainly on the side of the audio engineering. Like most things I've reviewed recently, the melody is good but the song doesn't really have a form (eg. AABA, ABACABA, etc.)

[Adrenaline]

Looking at the waveform before playing this, it looked like there was going to be a lot of variety. And there was... Kind of. In many ways this feels more like a sound showcase than a song due to the lack of transitions. The sounds are decent, but there's no flow and hence not much of a song.

MattHatterXYZ responds:

Thanks for the feedback, this was one of the first Dubstep oriented songs that we have made and from the get go this was driven to be more repetitive just to experiment with different loops

[To Battle]

With epic metal songs I usually notice the orchestral elements having poorer quality. In this instance, I think the guitar was actually the straggler, which was weird. But aside from that, this sounds really nice, especially the different layers. A few musical phrases here and there seemed bland to me, but just as many were interesting. The only other caveat I noticed was the ending seemed very abrupt, almost as though you were rushing to resolve it and just slapped some finale-like sounds into the last few measures.

[New Loop Thing]

Not going to lie, this was kind of boring to listen to. It's really just the same few chords on loop and a few effects here or there, and the chords aren't really great to begin with. I feel like I've written too many reviews today saying this, but you can click most anywhere in the song and here the same thing. That strikes me as a serious compositional flaw.

[Aloof]

I'm a big fan of the funky/jazzy theme of this. The music sounds a little choppy at times - I would have liked to if some of the parts slowed down a little so I could digest what was happening. A few parts get redundant and could probably be omitted or modified to keep things interesting, but it's never a huge issue.

[Farewell]

For as melancholic as this was supposed to sound, it just didn't sound that sad to me, probably because sad songs usually use silence to their advantage. This is gentle, but too ambient, constant, and also too fast-paced to really capture the mood. Instead it just kind of meanders, and since this is more of a moody piece than a technical one, it ends up becoming stale kind of fast.

[Sea Drift]

Not a whole lot going on here, but as a background piece it's not bad. I could imagine this in a game where you're exploring a town or otherwise not in combat. A few points off by virtue of this not being very complex.

KnockVoltage responds:

Thanks for the feedback

[The Visions in 140]

I wasn't a big fan of this. There's really no progression at all. A couple phrases here and there are kind of catchy, but it's more like you can just bob your head to a groove for 20 seconds before the song randomly goes somewhere else.

Katnip18 responds:

True, it's an unconventional track. Wasn't meant for dance/radio but it was more experimental with a dim electronic sound. Appreciate the feedback though.