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Song Of The Month Club - April 2025
What is the Song of the Month Club?
It's a place where musicians come to give and receive feedback on their work. Anyone is welcome, whatever their level of ability.
The spirit of the club is to contribute: if you submit a song for others to comment on, you should also have the courtesy to listen to everyone else's contributions and give as much feedback as possible. Posting a track and not listening and commenting on others is not cool.
The purpose of feedback is to be honest. Essentially you should give your truthful impressions of the song, whether good or bad. Negative feedback, if done in the right spirit and with courtesy, can be the most useful and can help the artist to grow.
All submissions are welcome, don't hesitate if you want to contribute. We like all kinds of music and we are particularly fond of vocals (but of course we still love a great instrumental). If you are thinking of experimenting with vocals this is a good place to get started.
We ask that you only post one song per month in this thread - if you're lucky enough to be able to produce more, then please just submit your strongest material
And finally, iOS is not a requirement for posting here. If you've recorded your song using nothing but a ukulele and a Fostex 4 track, that's fine.
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My entry for the month, lyrics in the spoiler:
We know what we saw
We've been here before
A biblical fall
When hate comes to call
Now I see
It’s burning me
And now we find
We’re caught in the fire
We’re panicked and blind
We have so far to fall
From our comfortable halls
We learn nothing at all
Before the downfall
Now I see
It’s burning me
And now we find
We’re caught in the fire
We’re panicked and blind
It’s what we want
It’s who we are
It’s what was written in the stars
When thunder struck
We turned away
The fire burned us anyway
Now I see
It’s burning me
And now we find
We’re caught in the fire
We’re panicked and blind
Early entry this month. This is a kind of experiment for me, influenced by lyric opera and a taste of “The Electrician” by Scott Walker. The whole sounds a bit like ambiant music
The past slips like sand through these trembling fingers,
While the future drifts… where cold uncertainty lingers.
Hope’s a shadow waltzing through our hands,
A flicker of flame in night’s shifting sands.
Buried under embers of time’s endless flight,
It waits for the spark… to reignite the light.
I'm not a fan of the generated vocals (sorry) but the musical backing is good. The minimal drums, the mellow arp, and the overall vibe work well.
For my taste the vocals are just too uncanny valley to be the centrepiece of the track, they would work much better as an occasional embellishment in a more instrumental piece. Used as a condiment rather than the main course.
This is a music track that I improvised on two MIDI keyboards connected to Bitwig Studio on a desktop PC. There the MIDI was routed to Solo for the flute, cello, oboe, and bassoon; Noire for the piano; Dolce for the basses; and Continua for the background instrument.
After bringing the audio recording into Vegas Pro, I applied the Lurssen Mastering Console plug-in to the audio mix.
It's titled A Rainy Day.
Lovely minimal track. I really like the chorus, and the track is catchy. Not a big fan of this type of synth sound but it blends nicely with the guitars and your voice.
I hope I don't sound too rude but I don't like the vocals. They are not really bad per se, but I find them completely out of the context of the track and not blended at all. Also they lack expression, but considering they are AI generated this is understandable.
That said, I like the instrumental parts (especially the drums) and the overall mood of the song!
I love your sounds as usual, and I find the flute really hunting in that track. A bit long for my taste, but since it's all improvised that makes sense.
My entry for this month. What genre is this? Electronic? Trip hop? Jazz? No idea, but it sounds cool so I though I would make a track with that :-)
I’m usual quite good at genre naming (even if just joking). But this is a curve ball and shouldn’t be. It is trip hop. It has a dj shadow vibe, so I’d call it trip hop. But trip hop has become loaded with so many things that it feels weird saying it. Jazzstep is taken, acid jazz is to me a little more upbeat and funky.
So I’m going with just damn masterful. Don’t shorten it to JDM that’s a thing apparently but I’m not going down another Japanese trip hop rabbit hole.
It's an interesting suite with several very distinct movements, all of it very quirky and original sounding. It's got an unusually jaunty vibe, a real spring in its step as it winks at you
The mutated trumpet sound that comes in at the end of the first minute is a great bit of sound design, I don't think I've heard a patch quite like that before. And the bass has the same bouncy quality as the intro piano, all while the trumpet thing is moaning behind it, it's all very good fun.
Sorry for the pile on and I really am because I really enjoy the music.
The vocal is not serving the song or the words.
For me it comes down to this.
You have a rhyme structure in your lyrics.
The phrasing and dynamics are fighting against that and winning handsomely.
The rhyme structure is constraining what words you say. But the phrasing and dynamics leave me wondering why not write the words you want to?
Like I said I can hear great things underneath all that. I definitely get that walker brothers vibe from it.
As an aside. I can’t sing. I don’t have access to a lot of singers or the time to do the things I need to. I’ve looked at AI to see what exactly it is and does and found the only difference would be my frustration won’t end up hurting the AI’s feelings. So fair play for getting this far with it.
Another nice meditation. Lovely interplay between the piano and the wind instruments.
I’ve not been around much lately. Had a bit of everything I do is rubbish alongside usual life chaos.
One of the things that had been holding me back is the my own inability to accept something akin to a cheap rhyme. (In my case it’s always transitions.)
I heard hey, jack kerouac by 10,000 and was reminded of when Natalie Merchant told us at a gig that she met Allen Ginsburg in a lift and he pulled her up for these lines.
‘Allen baby, why so jaded?
Have the boys all grown up and their beauty faded?’
‘It was a cheap line Allen. You telling me you’ve never needed a cheap line?’ 🤣
I’ve got 3 tracks that I’m in the process of adding crash cymbals to. I’ll have them done this month.
Please be my accountabilibuddys.
I also lost a trance track I was making but I’m not giving up hope of recovery.
Beware of perfectionism, it's a deadly disease. It's much better to finish stuff, even imperfectly, and then move on to the next piece as opposed to agonising over the current work in a state of paralysis.
If you stick to the SOTMC schedule you won't even remember what you are currently working on in six month's time, because you will have produced six more pieces in the meantime. When you have to go back and remind yourself what you were working on it puts things into perspective.
I'm not saying you should do shoddy work, not at all, but sticking to the monthly deadline (as a minimum) will make a huge difference. Finish the track and start the next one.
Wise words from the SOTMC founder, I totally agree!
Hi Guys.. Hope all is well?.. Here is my contribution for this month.. Released last Month.. This one is a bit different.. I created a little bit of Soulful House with ''king Tubby'' dub roots, as Reggae is my main love for music as a few on here know I love classic reggae.. Dennis Brown, Yellowman, Eek a mouse, ect?.. So I thought why not breed the sound of King Tubby & The Scientist with Soulful House.. So I created this?.. Its a little bit different from what I normally produce?.. Enjoy guys...
More weirdness from me. I just got to the point where I'm done mixing it. Been trying to get it to the point where it sounds ok but I'm over it. Not sure why I even persisted with this oddity.
I love it!
The contrast between the bouncy chord riff and the tremolo guitar and the spooky lead sound are all really awesome. The vocoded vocals sound really good and it's great to hear them in the context of a guitar track, and really hard to pull off so well.
The whole thing has a really fun vibe and is really enjoyable to listen to, and sounds really original as well. the lead parts especially are great.
The vocals remind me of Robot High School, a track I loved from the early 2000s:
Thanks Richard. I don't feel like there is enough space for the vocal. It's hard to understand the words but so be it. I thought Robot High School was awesome. Never heard anything like it. Maybe a non effected vocal like that would have helped, but it is what it is.
Thank you @richardyot @squeals @unlink for your honest feedbacks. I have suppressed most of the voice (except at 3:20 ‘cause I like it) and will see if I will rework this specific “instrument” in the futur
@richardyot Dark and beautiful song. It remains me some Akira Yamaoka works in video games like Silent Hill.
@DavidEnglish Wonderful, maybe I’m wrong but I hear influence from Rossini in the second part of the overture of William Tell. Great track, love it
@unlink This is a very unconventional song that deserve much more interests from the community here and there. I also think that it is more trip hop than jazz but it is fusion anyway and it is very well done.
@studs1966 I was immediately transported back to the 2000s with music that could have been a big hit in the clubs where I ended my nights. Thank you for that
@Ailerom This piece could be the end theme of an action movie, after the hero has saved all the hostages and killed the last bandit. Great track
Have you tried using the vocal as a sidechain to drive a dynamic EQ and duck the guitars (where the frequencies overlap)?
Although IMO the vocals sound fine as they are, in this style it's fine if the vocal is a little buried.
The updated version is definitely more to my personal liking
Great track! The guitar riff is very cool and the theremin-like synth complements perfectly the guitars. I don't feel like the vocals don't have enough space, I'm not a fan of vocoders but this sounds great!
I like the instrumental version! I also think that if you keep the vocals a bit more in the background or a bit buried in reverb, they can also stay. They are not really bad but they really lack expression (imho) so maybe the could work better as a support for the other instruments.
That sounds like a great idea but I never use side chain. I'm sure it is just laziness but it's something I only learned about after doing music for a long time and I guess I am a creature of habit.
An example I made a while back: the guitars are being ducked by the vocals, using a sidechain. In the verses I'm using a wide Q, and in the chorus a narrower one focused on the fundamental frequency of the voice - this lets the voice punch through without killing the high-end of the guitars. It's a really useful technique to get a vocal to sit well in the mix:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/go3prjb7fy3lzvgambypw/Pro-q3-vocal-ducking.MP4?rlkey=xlc8bphjpbcwp642o9jbpwrb4&dl=0
I know it's laziness and not the way to do it but if needed I often use ProQ to carve space out of the middle (usually just guitars) and boost close frequencies in the sides.
Yes that’s also a good way to make space for the vocals, which can then sit in the middle.
Side chaining is probably better. One thing I've noticed is I don't like the changing guitar sound I have experienced with a side chain setup. Must be doing something wrong. Only place I side chain frequently is a crossover range somewhere between 80 and 15hz on a bass vs kick track.
If you are relatively surgical with the affected frequencies the masking effect should make the ducking in the guitar channel pretty much inaudible IMO. That's why dynamic EQ does a better job than a compressor. If you are only ducking the fundamental of the vocal from the guitars those frequencies would be masked by the vocal anyway.