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A difficult request to fulfill when they're already fucking you in the arse, I'd imagine.

Your either thinking of Hornblower or your wrong.

Since my last band finished I've been writing some solo stuff. Mostly a folk vibe with a bit of pop and alt influence as well. Anyway I finally got around to recording one of the songs recently: Causey Mounth Would be interested to hear any thoughts about it.

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Finally got round to listening to this. First thing I thought was "Hallelujah". Agree that the vocals sound a bit half arsed. For a start they were mixed low down and I couldn't really work out the lyrics. Were a bit out tune at points too. I agree that "imperfect" vocals can sound good and some of my favourites can't really sing, like Dylan for example. But Dylan's never out of tune, he just speaks in certain bits rather than singing. Not really any excuse for being out of tune on a recording, live maybe, on a recording, do it again. Liked the second half of the solo a lot, I assume I was listening to the revised version. Hope these comments are useful.

Falsehood. He wears the shades as his eyes are fucked and the lights onstage could potentially blind him. I know this as I had a scare myself that I had this condition and my optician said it's the same thing as the guy from the Ting Tings has. This, coincidently, made me realise that my optician had a face I'd never get tired of punching!!!!! Mentioning some indie shite when I'm going through a personal trauma. Bastard!

If it's evolved into something different maybe it should have a different name, like Southern Metal. Maybe the Retract the Accolade guys just made a mistake, after all, they're only simian.

listened to this the other night and enjoyed it muchly. The solo was very good, nice tone and well crafted and suited to the song. I will listen to the revised version

I like that, nice tune and I like the lyrics, proper heartfelt stuff. I think the vocal suits the song actually and super smooth vocals are not the be all and end all of a good song to me. The singing is maybe a bit out here and there but if you are nervous or uncomfortable singing I think that is easy to do. The first time I sang on a song it was all over the shop but I find forcing myself to listen to that one is helping me hear where I went wrong. Did you try doing the rhythm guitar with an acoustic? I think that could have sounded really nice but its a nice progression as is. Cool solo, it is a bit loud though. Did you crank it up because you were worried about the vocals? I've done that a few times. Anyway, I like it.

Just going to say the vocals are quite off-key (for the need of a better word) for a good part of the song and the levels/quality of the recording isn't perfect, but you must know that. (In particular the solo is exceptionally loud to me.) As for the song itself, the solo fits in really nicely, the general feel is ... oddly reminiscent of Hallelujah, but that'll be the chords doing that. Lyrics are pretty nice, too, nothing too stand-out, but the solo's the hook for this song I imagine. Really the main fault are the vocals, in my opinion, but it's a good start. And yes, I feel bad saying this after the kind words in the Kilau topic. ):