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Great stuff Auke! Really enjoyed that.
Greetings and fijne kerstdagen! (Assuming that's a Frysian name :)

Yeah vocals are hard. Mixing is hard. Producing is hard.
We shouldn't try to make things perfect, it just needs to be a bit better than last time. We learn and grow.
Having said that, I thought you did a great job, so there :)

Love your drummer, I'm picturing him as animal of the muppets. He's super tight, so that forms a great basis!
Then loads of powerchords and a thumping bass guitar, can't go wrong with that. At 1:26 a little reference to The Police, one of my all-time favorite bands, love that too.
It all sounds like you guys played it pretty much live (or live in separate takes) and it has bucket loads of energy. Love it! Cheers from East London!

That's really interesting, especially with the vocal which is really good and fits your track well.
You kept me interested throughout, nice!

I think you have a good start there! See if you can find an acapella that fits it? Maybe you'll need more of a chorus but I don't think that should be a problem.
The only other thing I would look at is the "drums"; see if you can find a less electronic sample - that might fit your track better.
Good luck Majid, always enjoy hearing your tracks, keep working on them!

You made a good track with it! There's a bit much processing on the acapella (I think most of that was already in the original I saw) but the overall result is just really good. You also mixed it well and fit the vocal nicely into the mix.
Well done!!

I live JVKE, whenever boring old people (of my age) say there's no "good music" anymore I point to people like him (and Billy Eilish and a host of other great young artists).
This is a very interesting track - short, but it keeps me hungry for more.
Happy birthday!!

Huh? Did you quickly change your track or am I drunk and commented on the wrong thing? Wasn't this Abababababa?

Nice track, bouncy as always! I think you could make it even better with some more build-up or variation, although I can hear you already tried to do that (there are some interesting melodies in the background). Good job!!

Very spooky.
The intercepted calls are so saddening. The massive destruction, death and terror in Ukraine, and the Russian conscripts who never wanted to be there and only serve as cannon fodder anyway. Disaster.
Very impressive track my friend!

I like the username :) it's I, complex and imaginary all at the same time!
Good start of the track, and nice and chill. I'll be interested to see if you take it further!

I like the piano loop, I like the drum, I like the guitar... But they don't seem to fully cooperate yet. Maybe it's on purpose but they each seem to follow their own speed/rhythm.
See if you agree and whether you can align it more, that would (to me anyway) be even more chill :)
Good luck!

That's a very sweet clarinet! I think that's the basis of a cool track. I also really like what you do around 0:50 although that could come a bit earlier, but then I think after this you need a variation to keep the interest of the listener.
See what you can do, I like it!

It has a very good beat, but the distortion is too much for my ears. I think I would like it a lot more with a lot less compression (or maybe it's your limiter) and more headroom. See if you agree?
Good luck, I think you got a real thumper here!

That's very good! And yes, that invites some singing, doesn't it? (Although you may need to change the arrangements a mod to make space for lyrics).
Great job!

That's a fun track! Around 1:08 there's a bit weird moment, as if you had 2 sections that don't fully connect. See if this is something you intended, or else maybe you can find a way to make it more natural?
Good luck!

Nothing wrong with going Dutch ;)
Awesome track, very poppy but definitely not in a bad way. Love the vocal btw.
Excellent production too, obviously!!

Lovely. That's a fantastic vocal too.
There's something funky at the end though, after say 2:52. The outro is a bit weird, and then there's 1.5 minute of silence it seems? I would consider taking the last 8-16 bars of the chorus and repeating it with a fade out, or using the vocal for a proper ending.
Good luck man, lovely track!

I think we have a similar approach to music. I like it, I think most of this is real live instruments (electronic drums maybe, but played live?), your real voice without too much processing (and what a voice it is man). Awesome.
One tiny thing is that your vocal, as great as it is, is a bit too loud in the mix. IF you reduce that a bit it will be even more pleasant.
Great song, looking forward to your album. Feel free to spam me when it's out!

Ahhh the ride indeed is what I heard. So for the keyboard and drawing them all level... don't do that man (you should see my face now).

Do you think Picasso used a paintroller to more evenly spread his paint across the canvas in "Guernica"? ;)

I think I liked this one best, the guitar makes it quite interesting, and I hope it inspires someone to make a track!

I liked that, but I didn't quite get the first 10 seconds, or the very short break at 2:44.
Not sure if those were intentional but the rest was very enjoyable!

Regarding:
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the lyrics felt banal and insincere -- there's nobody in my life like that right now, and usually I only write and sing tracks like that when there is
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We are artists. Did Madonna really feel like a virgin? Did Paul Simon really have diamonds on the soles of his feet? Did Freddy Mercury really kill a man?Maybe, maybe not, but they are emotions we recognise. We write and sing stuff others can relate to.
Did I really sing "you give me hope" for someone? Do you care?
I think you don't, as long as you recognise it and it touches you.

All this rant is just to say: don't worry too much about being banal/insincere. It's in our singing that we make it come true for the listener, and that's all that counts :)

Not sure if you are 3 years old or the track ;) ;) but in either case it's a good track!
(But I'd be slightly more impressed if you are 3 years old)
Good work man!