I do like it. I don’t find the arrangement amateurish, but rather traditionally modern-folkish and the twist at the end caught my eye/ear. I thought I’d hate the vocals when I first heard them, but it really did grow on me.

I’ve listened to a boatload of demos at this point (omg, I’m about to celebrate a year of music blogging, Matthew, you BASTARD!!!)and no, I don’t find this performance particularly amateurish either. In fact it sounds like Robin Grey, no? I love him. This shows a lot of promise, I agree.

As to comments… well, the general feeling as I’ve sussed it out here, is to take it easy on the unsigned, new artists… slag off on the ones who should really know better by now.

that said, when nineballs and Himself go at it, they’d better have the cam running, that will be pure youtube gold … mmmm dirty ass fucking, DC hit the nail on the head didn’t he? what other reason have we for coming to this blog, boys? xoxo

i think it’s a question about styles!

This is a work of unbridled fucking genius. I’m an idoit for not seeing it in the first place.

Roll right fucking over, Beethoven, and all that.

The reason I didn’t argue is because there was no argument to counter, just a series of meaningless insults – ‘childish’, ‘ill-considered’ and so on – without the slightest hint of how that relates to anything musical.

As to your recent assertion that someone submitting something you don’t enjoy is childish or petulant (did you look that word up before you used it?), well, that’s just a non-sequitur. There’s nothing to argue with.

Read your comment again. It’s just insulting, without being at all constructive. How is an artist supposed to try and avoid those pitfalls in future, when the criticisms are just insults, not actual arguments? ‘Ooh, we must be less ill-considered and childish in future.’ What the fuck does that even mean?

Imagine some Art Cunt looked at a photographer or an illustrator’s work and said something like that: not only would it be insensitive, insulting and downright shitty, but there’s no way the artist in question can even learn anything from it, beyond how to take a put-down delivered ostensibly for the sake of someone else’s sense of self-importance.

If you’re going to be that mean and that casually arrogant then make an argument, make some suggestions, describe what is generating your opinion or your reaction or just don’t fucking bother.

who is nineball?

Perhaps next you’ll try and construct a cohesive argument to counter mine instead of just slagging me off.

For the record I haven’t formed an opinion on the lyrics themselves. I didn’t really pay much attention to the content of the lyrics while I was listening.

I maintain that the performance and arrangement are poor, and that an artist submitting this as a finished artefact strikes me as petulant and immature – “childish” – in attitude.

Sorry, I suspect I’m sounding pompous again. Maybe I just have low threshold for tolerating terrible music.

Rarrgh!