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Song Of The Month Club - December 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.
Comments
My entry for the month, lyrics in the spoiler:
I wanted the best for you
I know you felt confused
There were some things I never knew
When I walked in your shoes
The shadow right beside you
That’s eating you away
The doubt that lives inside you
That’s growing by the day
A spinning top
Crashing round
Just chaos and a fractured sound
You never stop
You never breathe
The shadow won’t let you believe
I always hoped that you'd adjust
Without feeling so bruised
I never wanted to be just
The bearer of bad news
The shadow right beside you
That’s eating you away
The doubt that lives inside you
That’s growing by the day
A spinning top
Crashing round
Just chaos and a fractured sound
You never stop
You never breathe
The shadow won’t let you believe
My entry for this month:
The way the tension mounts is perfectly executed. I love the way you create these atmospheres without ever resorting to cliché, these tracks are always very unique-sounding.
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 Heritage Cello for the cello; Solo for the viola, clarinet, and flute; Noire for the piano; and Repro-5 and Continua for the background instruments.
After bringing the audio recording into Vegas Pro, I applied the Lurssen Mastering Console plug-in to the audio mix.
It's titled The Old House.
Very catchy guitar riff and lovely chorus. As usual great work in mixing and mastering, sounds great on headphones.
@wagtunes , this is what i was talking about earlier. (SOTMC)
Cool. Well, maybe I'll contribute a song. I want to do this right and if the number of submissions gets to be some astronomical number it may be difficult to listen to all of them. There are only so many hours in the day.
The number of submissions is usually pretty modest, anywhere between 3 and 8.
Cool. That's doable. Okay, I'll go dig up something. God, I have thousands of tracks. How do I pick just one? LOL
Wow. I love this. Reminds me of one of my favorite bands ever, Slowdive. Very dreamy production. Thanks for posting the lyrics too, they're awesome
Great track. It reminds me of something Atticus Ross & Trent Reznor would be for the soundtrack for an intense scene in a movie. I love the way it ends with the violins playing the motif.
Okay, I'll give this a go. This is one of my more recent tracks.
Please feel free to tear it to shreds. It's the only way I'm going to improve as a writer and a mix engineer.
Off to listen to your tunes. This should be fun.
Wow, this is top notch. The instruments sound real too. Great production quality too.. very pristine. I also enjoy the visuals in the video
Okay, here goes.
Composition: Very well crafted song. Very commercial sounding for that era. Not sure how this would fly today because music has changed so much since that era. But for what it is, it's well done.
Mix: I have mixed feelings on this, pardon the pun. For my personal taste, it's a bit of a wash of sounds. However, I do realize that this was a very common mix technique for the time and thus sounds like it could have been released back then. Problem for me is I can't understand half the words because everything blends together. Having said that, the sound itself is awesome. It's obvious a lot of work went into this.
My Personal Rating: 7.5 out of 10 stars
Thanks, I'm huge Slowdive fan of course, including their two latest albums which are both awesome.
Nothing to tear to shreds. This song has it all. It sounds like you know exactly what you're doing. Very orchestrated arrangement as well. I think it's great.
I commented on this earlier in your own thread but I'll go into more detail here.
Composition: As I said earlier, very eerie sounding track. It accomplishes what it sets out to do, if that's to make you feel creeped out. Well done there.
Mix: I'm torn about this. I think the mix does the song justice for the feel. But on a tech level, it really needs more high end. The mix itself is all mid range and a bit muddy. However, I'm not sure what brightening it up will do to the feel of the song. So I don't know. I'm on the fence here.
Personal Rating: 7 out of 10 stars.
David, there is something very haunting about this.
Composition: As it's improvised, it's hard to call it a composition, but at the same time, like I said, moving as hell. Sometimes inspiration is enough.
Mix: Not much to mix here, It's 2 tracks. It's all you needed. That's what I call making the most from very little.
Personal Rating: 8 out of 10 stars.
The production is very clean and crafted to a high technical standard, and the main vocal melody is also very well-written. I like the arrangement and the choice of instruments with the piano and the orchestral elements as well.
I don't like the AI vocal, but I understand from reading some of your other posts why it's there, so I get that.
One issue for me is the dynamics, in theory the arrangement is quite dynamic with that instrumental break in the middle, but it sounds like every instruments is played at the same velocity: all the piano notes are hit with the same strength, all the horns are blown the same way - it would be nice if there was more feel and touch in the performances. I think that would let the piece breathe a bit more and also bring some excitement to the tune, and give it a lift.
But in terms of mixing and songwriting, it's very good.
Thanks. I do this professionally so I better know what I'm doing or I'm in big trouble. LOL
Thanks. Dynamics is a taste thing with me. I tend to make full blown balls to the walls productions that don't lend well to dynamics. It's just the way I write. If this was an instrumental orchestral piece of some length, then yes, there would be soft and loud and everything in between. In fact, the sheet music would be suitably scored. But when I write a pop piece, this is just how I like them to sound. Having said that, maybe on a future track I'll experiment with incorporating my orchestral piece techniques into a pop piece and see how it goes.
As for the AI vocal, well, you sure didn't want me singing this. It would have sounded awful. I'll leave it at that.
Anyway, thanks for the feedback. It helped me a lot. Something to work on in the future.
Thanks for your comment. You are definitely right, there is something wrong with the high end of the song.. it is a "dark" song indeed but shouldn't sound so muffled, so I suspect some technical issue on my side.
I'm definitely against any kind of AI for vocals. I can see why you are using them but I don't like them at all, sorry :-)
That said, I like the orchestration of the various parts of the song. There is a good variety and very nice ideas, very good mixing.
One thing that I don't like much is that they do not feel "expressive" enough, like the strings, or the piano or the horns do not have enough changes in dynamics to make me feel they are "real". Not that they are bad but imho that could be improved.
Thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated. FYI, you probably don't want to listen to any of my newer songs as they all use AI vocals. I understand people's hatred of them so I don't even try to get them on board.
I'll probably submit something sooner or later for this month, but in the meanwhile, I want to comment on others' tracks.
@richardyot Another classic banger out of you. I really enjoyed this a lot. I swear, one of these days, I need to learn to play a guitar. I could probably "fake" guitar playing with something like GeoShred, but honestly it probably couldn't recreate the sound of real playing? (Then again, I don't have much experience with GeoShred yet, so I could be talking out my arse.)
@unlink This piece is very intense, but in all the best ways. I love how it evolved over time, and the ending was superb with the strings. I meant to give your track a listen sooner, but haven't had the time, so I'm glad you popped it here under SOTMC.
@DavidEnglish It was lovely to revisit this wonderful piece by you.
I'm sorry, but I can't give it a like this time since I already did the first time I listened, lol. I'm sure I said something more substantial in the original thread, if there was a thread for this song.
@wagtunes Um, damn. That was amazing! The song itself could be a modern classic ballad. I'm not a fan of AI for any creative endeavors (better usage would be for squashing bugs in code), but somehow you make it work. I just simply "speak sing" my lyrics and either use autotune or vocoding. Oh not as a corrective measure but as an effect in of itself. Sure, it sounds more like a robot, but at least I didn't use robotics to generate anything. 😆 I've been a fan of Eiffel 65 since I first heard "Blue" back at a church festival in either 1998 or 1999, which is why I'm stuck on "that futuristic vocal sound".
Okay, time for me to get to my "music dungeon" and create a song about something. Not saying it'll be a spectacular song, but it'll be...something I suppose. 😉
Thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated.
Of course mate.
Glad you're here.
Okay, and this is my song here made for my girlfriend. Made from start to finish throughout the afternoon today (I started right after I replied to @wagtunes , hehe). The instrumental was made in Auxy, and the vocals were recorded and processed in Cubasis 3. The final track was mastered in Cubasis 3 too. Enjoy.
Well, that's just cute as hell. How do you not love that? Vocoder sounds so cool. The beat is totally infectious and the melody is right out of bubble gum heaven.
Well done.
Personal Rating: 8.5 out of 10 stars
Thanks mate.
I appreciate it.