You know your style has really changed over the years! Before I thought you were purely an orchestral guy, then you started throwing drum kits in orchestral, and now you've practically invented your own genre. As usual, you don't fail to deliver a catchy, enjoyable and considerably badass song! Yay.
What I really must commend you on is how original this is. I think the creativity and originality here is one of the strongest factors of the submission. I'm hearing some orchestral stuff, some synthy stuff, and those drums are unlike any drums I've ever heard.
I love the two notes at 0:06 that play right before the beat, the occasional flanger you throw onto the drums, the way you gradually increase the amount of instruments playing at the same time in the intro, your excellent introduction of the melody at 1:01, how you sometimes line up the drum hits with the melody (that's actually one of the characteristics of your music, I feel :P), the extra two bars at 1:48 to allow the instrument to make its entrance, the little arpeggio at 2:24... I could honestly go on forever. All of that is well-executed and highly creative.
Some of the composition is just awesome, man. I especially love the 1:01's melody. As I mentioned above, you certainly took a solid approach to introducing it by first edging a monotone version of the synth you used for it at 0:50. The melody itself is memorable and well-made, and you even threw in another instrument under it during its second iteration (sounds like some sort of piccolo or something).
This song, however, lands directly in the same track that a lot of your other tracks land in I'm afraid. In fact it might be even more prominent over here. The more you go into the song, the more uninspired the melodies feel. At the beginning you really had something going, and later on, while there was some interesting composition, by 2:24 it didn't feel like the song was going anywhere.
Then you repeat a previous melody at 3:13, and while this is a good way to structure a song, that melody unfortunately isn't very memorable. In fact, it took more than one listen for me to notice that it had already been played before. This might just be because it isn't as upfront as a foreground melody should be, but I think it's because the melody is just too long and complex man.
You mentioned that you were trying to perhaps make the melodies too complex, and you might be right. Not that I have something against complex composition - far from it - but for a song like this, I think throwing in the awesome 1:01 melody at 2:50 and then building up from there would have been a much better idea.
I'm in two minds about the mixing. I absolutely love some of your mixing and I'm not fond of the rest of it. What I like is how much oomph you put into this track, especially the drums. That is something you're very good at. The snare that came in at 1:25 is fat, powerful and I love it. The kick has a nice deep punch to it as well, and compliments the snare nicely. The song doesn't sound empty at all by the way! It's wonderfully deep and filled up, without sounding like the sounds are having a drowning tournament.
Then, there are some other mixing choices I'm a bit unsure about. As I said above, the foreground melodies from 1:26 onwards need to be easier to hear, most notably when you have the main beat playing. I'm not catching all of the notes, because they're getting drowned out by the stuff that's supposed to be in the background. One other thing; the cymbals and shakers (or hi-hats, whatever they are) are kinda terrible haha. Waaay too much high-end; they sound very harsh and unprocessed. This is quite noticeable at 1:01 when you play those crashes along with the melody. They're almost leaning into the white noise territory; I'd really consider some better sounds for the high-end drum hits like shakers/cymbals, etc.
Some of your instrumentation is a bit MIDI-like (mainly the piccolo/flute thing) and I would've liked some more high-end reverb/delay on the synth at 0:39 to make it sound a bit more intricate, but otherwise your instrumentation is awesome. What's great about it is the fact that sounds that aren't usually used with each other are used and they sound good together! For example, the flute/piccolo along with the gated synth at 2:50 (and a drum kit as well). Generally I find it hard to fit flutes in with a non-orchestral drum kit, and usually flutes and synths go terribly with each other, but for some weirdass reason it really does work here!
The drums... man. I don't know what to say; other that the mixing quirks they're fantastic. Maybe a bit TOO varied at points, but honestly, they're so interesting and fit with the song so well that I really don't care whether you vary them too much at points. The fact that they're varied makes them entertaining to listen to, and I bet that even if you stripped the song of the rest of the instruments, the drums would still be interesting on their own.
Last point; the transitions on the whole are nailed. You almost never have problems with transitions and this song is certainly no exception. You seemingly effortlessly lead up to different song sections. I especially like 1:23's transition, and how at 1:26 everything comes together after that little snare roll. On a related note, the intro is quite good and so is the ending!
Well, that's all I have to say (still loving the bigger character limit). As a recap, you've got something really intriguing, creative and well-made here. I did mention some issues, mainly that compositional quirk and that mixing quirk, along with a few smaller problems here and there, but I also mentioned a hell of a lot of good things, and that calls for a high review score from me!
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