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Title: Poolside - Electrik (Work In Progress)
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Artist: TwiTerror
Genre: Rock/Pop: Pop
Reviewed by: Spectra on November 01, 2007 (All reviews by Spectra)

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1Overall Description
Very addictive (as expected from TwiTerror's Poolside tracks), but with a refreshingly experimental edge that puts it a step above other Poolside tracks.
Has a smooth hip-hop feel, nothing hardcore actually a bit ambient with awfully catchy vocals shifting into odd keys at times...a good thing because it at least partly helps it break the "pop" mold.
 
2Creativity Description
Some parts (like at 0:36 and 0:44) shift into alternative, almost jazzy chords and enable this to break out of the 4-chord pop feel. Parts like the one at 1:00, though, you'd hope would shift into a second mood (say, perhaps, a Latin-style brass and large-beat outro ALA Ricky Martin but more original), but never do.
 
3Artistic License Description
This one was bordering on 4, the only thing that really kills it here is, aside from the chord changes mentioned above, this sounds a tad too close to a Britney Spears back beat in mood.
 
4Arrangement Description
I agree with some of the other comments this song needs something clicking away in the background for more energy (think of the breaks in LL Cool J's "Mama Said Knock You Out"...but with a slower feel). The brass arrangement is solid, but also very tried (and overused in hip-hop), but I think evolving it into a Latin-style brass arrangement, maybe even with a few Santana-style guitar licks and edges, could do this sound wonders in both energy and style.
 
5Sound Quality Description
It's Poolside...so it's pretty much guaranteed to sound major-label quality. :-)
 
6Does it work as a piece of music Description
This begins to step ahead from other Poolside tracks in attempting to reach new experimental ground within pop-ethics...but it needs an extra kick of energy, style, and enthusiasm, as mentioned above in the arrangement section, to really propel it beyond the back-beat feel it has now which is holding it back so far.

Mad props to Twi-terror for letting reviewers and artists help him build the song though...it takes another level of artist to get outside his/her own thoughts to do that and I wish him best of luck!
 
Comments
Nov 01 2007 5:26 pm
by TwiTerror
Oh, wow! I appreciate this review a lot, especially on a WIP. Thanks a lot, you have a lot of good criticism.