Amazing!! I’m so looking forward to listening to these.
Will you be able to get the lyrics into Spotify? I noticed they’re there for the first album, which is very fun.
Edit with a more substantive comment after having listened to the whole thing:
Tier 1, bangers: “You Have Not Been a Good User”, “Station 4″, “Machines of Loving Grace”, “Dance of the Doomsday Clock”. All had both great music style and resonant lyrics.
Tier 2, solid: “Feather Fall”, “Nothing is Mere”, “Friendly Fire”, “Friday’s Far Enough For Milk”. (The latter almost made tier 1 but the central conceit of milk being “far enough” is too confusing to be emotionally moving on the level the song deserves, and the rest of the song’s lyrics get much less focus than the milk thing.)
Honorable mention: “The Sequences” is hilariously cute in how much jargon it stuffs in there. I just didn’t like the musical style.
I am so happy to read you enjoyed Dance of the Doomsday Clock! I have rarely been able to stomach the dozens of hours Habryka spends to iterate and iterate and iterate on lyrics and genre and generations. Both of my songs that made it (this and Litany of Gendlin from the first album) were me thinking about what I wanted for a little while and ~largely one-shotting it.
Doomsday Clock really makes me laugh, it’s so melodramatic. I always imagine faux-Petrov turning to camera when delivering Eliezer’s (sincere) line: “Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, take a minute to not destroy the world.”
Amazing!! I’m so looking forward to listening to these.
Will you be able to get the lyrics into Spotify? I noticed they’re there for the first album, which is very fun.
Edit with a more substantive comment after having listened to the whole thing:
Tier 1, bangers: “You Have Not Been a Good User”, “Station 4″, “Machines of Loving Grace”, “Dance of the Doomsday Clock”. All had both great music style and resonant lyrics.
Tier 2, solid: “Feather Fall”, “Nothing is Mere”, “Friendly Fire”, “Friday’s Far Enough For Milk”. (The latter almost made tier 1 but the central conceit of milk being “far enough” is too confusing to be emotionally moving on the level the song deserves, and the rest of the song’s lyrics get much less focus than the milk thing.)
Honorable mention: “The Sequences” is hilariously cute in how much jargon it stuffs in there. I just didn’t like the musical style.
I ❤ The Fooming Shoggoths!!
I am so happy to read you enjoyed Dance of the Doomsday Clock! I have rarely been able to stomach the dozens of hours Habryka spends to iterate and iterate and iterate on lyrics and genre and generations. Both of my songs that made it (this and Litany of Gendlin from the first album) were me thinking about what I wanted for a little while and ~largely one-shotting it.
Doomsday Clock really makes me laugh, it’s so melodramatic. I always imagine faux-Petrov turning to camera when delivering Eliezer’s (sincere) line: “Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, take a minute to not destroy the world.”