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Title: Imaginary friends
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Artist: grip
Genre: Soundtrack/Game: Demostyle
Reviewed by: Louigi Verona on July 11, 2007 (All reviews by Louigi Verona)

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1Overall Description
An electronic track of a genre difficult to put a finger on. Something between trip-hop and lounge, though the drums are to heavy and steady to call it trip-hop and the track is too concrete to call it lounge.
The impression I got from it is that it can be background music to a movie/game about ghosts. At parts very inventive work and good use of vocal samples and sound effects, but in my opinion lacks the change. In other words, in several places of the tune I got bored. I think I would've liked the tune much more if it would've had either more variety in the rythm section or maybe not have the rythm section be so emphasized at all and let the sounds float in mid air. The pizzicato-synths sounds also added to the monotone character of the track. Potentially a very nice tune done with quite an amount of imagination left an impression of a somewhat dull thing, which is a real pity.
 
2Creativity Description
I liked the pad-like instruments which slide in and out and create that feeling of ghosts floating. The whole charm of this piece is the whole set of sounds used, very creatively.
 
3Arrangement Description
The arrangement is done very well. Didn't like the volume balance in the intro and some vocal samples were too loud in my opinion.
 
4Sound Quality Description
Fine production quality. I like the way lofi samples blended with HQ drums.
 
5Does it work as a piece of musicDescription
I guess it does, though it's difficult to say that it works as a piece oy would actually listen to. But as a background -definitely!
 
Comments
Jul 11 2007 9:32 am
by grip
This was originally a soundtrack piece for the demo "I am", just to let you know ;)



Jul 11 2007 9:02 am
by Tympanic
Louigi, I'm curious to know why you rated this song only two stars overall if the other categories got four stars? Isn't overall rating a representation of the other categories?