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Hey there! This was such a fun album to listen to - I think your melody writing in each track was lovely, and the little sound design you used was a nice touch. Time signature changes were awesome, and I also adored the glitchy aspect of the second track, super unique sound that really adds to the strangeness of space travel.

I think my main overarching feedback here is:

1.) I would've liked to have heard just a little more development in the composition's structure, especially in the first two tracks. IMO having a bit more variation, either in the melody or in the arrangement behind it, could help keep the interest going compared to looping the melody as it was originally stated. Not to say there's anything wrong with repetition from time to time.

2.) Outside of the trumpet melody and use of odd time signatures, I don't personally hear the cosmic horror elements too often in this submission. To me the melody gives off a mysterious vibe that's very fitting, and the glitchy or odd time signatures reinforce that as well, but I think if the harmony was a little darker in tone (mostly in the latter two tracks) it could also add more of an element of being hopeless or dangerous IMO. Maybe even throw in some crunchy harmonic extensions as well. At least that's what I would personally want to hear for a track titled 'The Gravity That Pulls Life'.

Just my two cents. Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work :)

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Thank you and I appreciate the feedback! I am glad you found the soundtrack fun to listen to! Also I mentioned this to someone else but since you liked the glitchy aspect of the second track, if you haven't heard earthbound's battle themes I would highly recommend checking them out !  I think the technical term for the time signature stuff I did is metric modulation (but the tempo shifts are a bit rougher than what is traditional for that concept)

I agree that the tracks could use more development! (Especially the first track haha, I didn't want it to have a chorus while I was writing it, well at least not in the first 2 minutes of what a full version could look like)

I also agree that the cosmic horror elements feel lacking too! The main "dread" track (I called it Dread Man's Switch) I had to scrap before the jam but it was a cool concept (like a mix of the prowler theme from Spiderverse and "Air Raid" from LISA: The Painful), I even felt like I was going insane making it because the chords felt like they shouldn't work at all:

Here's one of the progressions I had for that dread track in mind, idk if they conveyed dread well but they were made by taking a normal progression and then adding notes that relate by 4ths

I will try to take your advice with darker tones in the latter tracks though, the last track is sort of supposed to represent a very subtle grim return to ignorance and I think your advice could especially help with conveying that fully!

Thanks again for the feedback and thanks for hosting this, I really liked the longer style jam!