MaartenC's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[FS: Father and Son (ac.)]

Pleasant, really.

I pretty much like everything about this: your brother sings very well too.
All with all I don't find anything wrong with this, so I'll just name the positive things:

- Song chosen:
Very good. Cat Stevens is an excellent artist, maybe you should do (yet?) more of him.
- Lyrics/singing
Beautiful. Both you and your brother did an amazing part at this. Just well done.
- Guitar play.
Just as always, excellent. 'Nuff said.

Also, I can't hear anything from your cold, so no worries at that. Job well done; keep it up!

FairSquare responds:

Thanks!
And i think the cold was in my favor; it gave my voice an extra edge.
I'll look into Cat Stevens (not literally :O) to find if there are more songs i can cover.

Anyway, thanks again for the review! It's always pleasant to see them ^____^

[Rainwave - Solar Vision 2]

*whistles* Wow, pretty amazing.

I heard of you via Tech-X on newgrounds and decided to check out some of your audio. I've already faved one of them, and this upload, together with part one is going in too. I'm really amazed: I'm not usually a fan of this 'light' music, but sometimes I can enjoy one or two of those songs.

Anyway, the review:

The song starts out, good intro, good fades and the instrument is also plausible. After a while the drums started, well chosen by the way and after a bit of (seemingly) 'exploring' with different melodies and drumsets, the gear goes up a bit. This was done extremely, but then EXTREMELY well.

The melody is good, the drums are strong and the part around 2:00 -where the song goes back a small gear- was timed well.

More things I liked:
- The build-up at 3:15 with the raise in tone before the song bursts again
- The climax following that
- The ending of the song, which was perfect, by the way.
- The song made me feel happy ^^

What I didn't like:
- The instrument is... mwah okay. I'm fairly neutral in the choice of instruments, really so no minus-points for that.
- In the second half of the song, there is quite a lot of repetitiveness in the main melody

All with all, I give you a 9/10 and so a 5/5. I'm gonna download both parts, mix them together as one song and it's going into my favorite list of songs (currently 277 songs there), if that's okay with you, of course.

You deserve to be proud of this, now excuse me, I'm going to check out some other uploads from you. Keep it up!

Indigorain responds:

Wow, thanks for the extremely solid review!
And I really agree with you on you criticism, especially in the midsection, theres a lot of adding and layering melodies, without a great amount of variation. And the instrumentation isn't extremely rare either.
Thanks for the great score, the favouriting, and once again, for the great review! :D

[FS: Hard sun (acoustic)]

Damn, that song is hard to sing. You did quite all right though. Not to sound queer, but your voice is really calming and nice to listen to.

Anyway, in the beginning a couple of tones seemed off, but after the first 'BIIIIIG, BIG HARD SUN' you recovered, and good too.

From he second B,BHS on, all the tones were practically perfect and I started to enjoy the song. Made think about how the original was, and I must say that I enjoyed this cover more than the original, what is very rare for covers/remixes.

The guitar play was also very good. Good ol' acoustic guitar play, which was just perfect.

Overall, I believe you're improving very much and please keep sending me PMs with the next song/cover, although I'll be raising my standards for the next song.

Oh yeah, the chorus... Big, hard sun? Wrooonnnnng. It's probably my perverted mind, but...

FairSquare responds:

Haha, the first couple of times i couldn't sing 'Big hard sun' without a giggle or two :3
And about a couple of notes being off in the beginning.. it seems that, when i try to sing a song, i just can't start as good as i want to. I have to sing a verse or two before i get really into it and basically stop thinking about how it sounds, starting to enjoy the actual singing more and stop worrying about how my voice sounds.
That you like my cover better than the original (which i love) is a pretty big compliment :)

Thanks for the review! :D I hope to keep improving :)
And of course, i will send you a PM when i upload my next audio creation ^__^

[Death of a pixel]

Hm... Strangely that reminded me of...

...lavender town. Damn you're good.

The instruments were indeed pretty disturbing, in a good way and held my attention throughout the whole song. Anyway the review:

The intro started out well, with just the one instrument and shortly after the others started to kick in and the song still managed to stay calm, yet impressive.

At the end, when all of the instruments/melodies were playing at the same time, it seemed wrong and right at the same time and I loved it. Too bad it ended WAAAY too abruptly. Really -2 for that, because otherwise it was perfect. I really hope this will be remade/revised by you, because this has great potential.

Keep it up and sorry for the late review.

8/10, 4/5, faved.

ErlendHL responds:

Hey thank you very much :)