Shael-Riley's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Rave-Lit-Sky]

Solid Stock

Easily one of the most polished pieces on Newgrounds, Rave-Lit-Sky is well-crafted if uninspired trance kitch. Great for flash ambience in a music video or video game, ledning itself, in all its neon-utopian glory, to the anime-inspired style of many flash artists. Just the kind of thing the vault needs.

Now, if flash artists would only start to fucking USE the vault.

ZooL152004 responds:

thanks, glad i'm worthy to be here. its hard to get people to like ya music but i think i've found a crowd that likes that certain sound. thanks fot the kick ass review. take it easy

cheers

[Abbreviated Chronicle]

Creative and soulful

I dig this a lot!

An orchestral piece over a filtered breakbeat loop with some ethnic percussion over top.

There are a few instances of dissonance that seemed a little strange to me, but if that's what you were going for then there you go.

I agree with the previous reviewer that a bassline backing up the beats would be nice but the piece is still very enjoyable as it is. I hope this gets snatched up for an ending credits sequence or moody walking-in-the-rain montage.

Narflebeans responds:

Right on. I'm gonna try to extend this piece for sure now. Thanks for the reviews!

[Action Force Go!]

Delightfully stock, suspenseful synth-rock

This is a cool little piece. You have some nice composition here; it really builds and provides atmosphere--perfect for a suspenseful action animation if the director's willing to match the song's changing mood or cut it just so. I especially love the happily cheesey and yet oh-so-integral-to- the-suspensful-mood brass synths.

Production is a little flat. There's no muddiness but All of the synths are comepletely dry, without a drop of filter, FM modulation or reverb. It gives the piece sort of an advanced-32-bit-era-midi feel that I don't think does the composition justice.

The only real problem in the song, though, is the tom drum section, in which the entire low end is drowned out by an overzealous drum line.

Narflebeans responds:

Hey, thanks for reviewing. I didn't intially pick up on the dryness in the mix, but I think you're right. The tom drum section you're referring to is the big chaotic part right? I'm gonna try to clean that up in a later release. This song is due another incarnation, I'm planning on extending it in certain places, and changing other things still. Thanks for your input, I'll put particular focus on those issues in the next round of polish.