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Title: A Bridged Divide
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Artist: slammy
Genre: Rock/Pop: Ballad/Easy Listening
Reviewed by: John Marwin on July 16, 2007 (All reviews by John Marwin)

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1Overall Description
This is an epic song with many themes included into a single long stretch of a song, which is both a blessing and a curse sort of. It's not something you throw on at a party to be honest, however it IS one of those songs that you'll probably throw on your playlist in about ten years and STILL like it.
 
2Creativity Description
The artist mixes moods quite well, dark goes with light, sad goes with happy and weird goes with mundane. There's a whole tapestry of sounds that run around in the soundscape, giving you a glimpse here and there. The only gripe I have with this section is that sometimes the artist just drops most of the instruments in favour for some almost silent parts which feel like they add too much to the song in terms of length.
 
3Arrangement Description
This song is very well made in terms of transitions and composition, the chord progression is very clean, if not insanely well crafted. Granted, some areas do feel a bit empty (as mentioned above) but on the grand scale, this song feels solid.
 
4Sound Quality Description
It's a pinnacle of production this one, there's nothing bad about this part of the song, it all fits together and forms a grand harmony of varying moods.
 
5Does it work as a piece of music Description
Now, granted .. the track IS epic into absurdum almost, it's so huge that it's really hard to review (and I'm not just referring to it's duration here).. it's like trying to say if a city is beautiful, you just can't grasp the scale of the while thing.. and all it's details without explaining a bit about them first. So yes, it does work as a piece of music, but at the same time.. "no" is also valid since it's a bit too long and a bit too progressive to be classified as a song aswell. In other words, this isn't a song that you throw on the playlist to groove out to, it's a song you listen to and reflect upon, like staring at a pond when the sun sets.
 
Comments
Jul 17 2007 10:05 am
by slammy
Awesome! Thanks for a great perspective and review John Marwin! :)



Jul 16 2007 6:57 pm
by John Marwin
Argh, I made a typo in the "does it work as piece" part, correction: "you just can't grasp the scale of the WHOLE thing" :P