About the review

Title: White Rain
Listen online: 
 
 download add to playlist
Artist: mysterium
Genre: Electronica: Ambient
Reviewed by: roncli on June 19, 2007 (All reviews by roncli)

Review Feedback: 

mysterium gave roncli positive feedback for this review.

Agree
 
Disagree

Review

Agree with this review?  
Have an opinion and want to be known for it? Share your opinion directly with the musican and start earning your Reviewer Reputation by reviewing this song.


1Overall Description
A spooky atmospheric piece with, for the most part, good sound quality. However, the song has an unpolished feeling to it, almost as if the artist took one run through writing some parts of the song and never went back. Still, the ideas in this track are quite nice, and fill out the near ten minutes with ever-changing sound. A big plus to this song would be to tune up the samples that cause some of the more unpleasant sounding harmonies, and by watching the volume balance in the interludes and breaks, making sure that things that don't need to be getting a whole lot of attention aren't pushed to the front of the song.
 
2Creativity Description
The creativity is definitely the strong point of this piece. There are a lot of ideas in here, many of them strong developed, and are very unlike what you hear in most music. There are times where the song just seems to go on and on, but the journey is through the creativity and texture of the track, not necessarily with the arrangement. What hurts the creativity the most, and perhaps stopping this from receiving a 5, is the fact that there were some areas where too much creativity was applied, resulting in a chaotic sound that is difficult to follow and enjoy.
 
3Artistic License Description
A standout example of the problems this song presents is shown at 7:23, where so much comes together, the song gets too chaotic to follow. Also in the 7 minute area, the transitions come fast and furious, and nothing seems to work well together. While the artist really does push to the atmospheric genre around outward a bit, there are a lot of places where he does so with sacrifice to sound quality, and it is in places such as the ones mentioned above that keep this song from being truely enjoyable.
 
4Arrangement Description
The arrangement, for the most part is simple, though many good arrangements are. There are a few questionable insertions, though. Take the choir melody heard at 1:37. For the most part, when it's used, it's okay, and adds to the atmosphere. Towards the end, it stands out way too much, especially when it's gapped. Also, parts such as the interlude starting at 3:06 have some out of tune samples that make what should be a welcome change in the arrangement a part that's not very interesting to listen to.
 
Comments

There are no comments yet. Be the first person to comment.