Levi Must Die!

[KleptoJesus]

Yo. This is my bands newest recorded song, I'd like you all to take a listen and tell us what you think:

Purevolume.com/eclectica

Check out the other ones while your at it, if you want... Thanks in advance.

P.S. Crit for Crit

[groomits]

Good stuff dude! Levi must die is not really my kind of music, but for the style its pretty good. I enjoyed lil puppet a lot. Really melodic, good song. And the recording quality is a little bad for Julo, with better quality, the sound could be good, but sounds a litle cliche.

Keep on playing music man!

[KleptoJesus]

Thanks for checking it out, and thanks for the input.

Yeah, I really like Little Puppet Man as well... partly because someone more talented than myself is singing. We threw that song together really quickly and randomly. The singer had only heard the song one time when he recorded that vocal track and I told him to just improvise the lyrics, it all worked out pretty well. We're almost done with a new piano song now, that really rocks socks... I will probably put it up in a few months.

I see what you are saying about Julo... some of the recording was just thrown together there... especially that solo. But for what it is, I think it sounds decent.

[the_shadow_rose]

Very nice!
I like the main guitar riff, it's catchy and fast and cool...
There's some feedback though, I think? It's not all the distortion...But maybe it's just my speakers.
But Levi Must Die was good.

Li'l Puppet Man was awesome too. Kind of different from Levi Must Die but great too! Nice melody.

Good going, mate.
I've sent y'all a friend request.

Cheers
Tanya

[KleptoJesus]

Thanks Shadow Rose, I was worried that you had forgotten about checking this out. I'm not sure what you mean about the feedback, at the very beginning, that's intentional and the end has a bunch of random guitar sounds on it because of the sloppy way that I recorded it. But anything inbetween is probably just due to the fact that we used far too much distortion for our own good.

Not sure which riff you were referring to by the main one, but I will happily take the compliment.

Is this friend request on purevolume? I left my crazy password to login at home and I won't be back for a few weeks, but I will take care of it then. I've never had a friend before... :naughty:

Let me know if you put up anything new.

[littletom]

I liked everything about Little Puppet Man. Levi Must Die is probably best imo at about 1.30 when it goes into a sort of marching beat. The rest of it is a bit more metal than I'd listen to but still sounds good as metal goes.

[Ripping Hammer]

I'm struck by your stylistic range on these three tracks, all of which sound completely different from one another. The pick of the litter is Levi Must Die, which has some pretty competent, even compelling, metal riffing. The arrangement is cool, too, as it never seems to go where you expect. Also, props for the lyrical shout-outs to robots and Frankenstein... am I hearing that correctly?

Now this criticism is probably due to the quality of the actual recording, but the song feels loose, like the arrangement and performance need to be tightened up. No wasted moments. You need straight ***-kicking, then ****ing rock-solid breakdowns with heavy grooves, in a song like this. I'm confident this could be achieved with abit of structural prudence, and, of course, better production.

Also, abit of Biblical history... had Levi died before giving birth to any of his three offspring, Moses wouldn't have been born and the Hebrew nations would not have been delivered from slavery. Is this an anti-semitic track, vis-a-vis Richard Wagner?

[KleptoJesus]

Thanks for the input little tom.

Ripping Hammer, the range of our band is one of my favorite things because it keeps me from getting bored. We have techno, industrial, acoustic, and an instrumental folkish song coming down the pipe. Hence the name "Eclectica".

You heard the lyrics about Dr. Frankenstein and Robots just fine, but strangely missed references to Tom + Jerry and a mysterious Goat-like figure with whom Levi shares a "kinda-weird" relationship.

You are right about the recording, we hadn't practiced the song very much when we recorded all of this at once with our 4-input recorder. A better recording would be nice but I doubt we will ever get one now that we are all off to different colleges. What do you mean by structural prudence?

Yes, I am an anti-semite, very observant... that also explains the robots. (?)

Actually, I had a friend named Levi in my creative writing class and he was the subject of a few boring in-class exercises. Eventually, I found that the poems could be easily adapted to the song... so there's that.

[littletom]

I thought it was about the jeans.

[KleptoJesus]

I like that idea, Little Tom. It makes the song sound like I am creating an intelligent outcry against American consumerism or the evils of giant corporations. I like it, maybe I will change my story from here on out.

[littletom]

A friend of mine recently did a song "**** Asda."

That's the British Walmart if any americans are wondering.

[PECOAE]

I dislike the tone of the first guitar but I love the tone of the second one in "Levi Must Die!" And I love the drums in the break with the second guitar. And the singer needs some work.

I love Lil' Puppet Man - it sounds very Radiohead, except when it goes more poppy with the third chord, which I dislike.

Julo is okay, its a bit formulated at the beginning, but I like it later on in the song. But change that guitar eh?

Overall great stuff.

Show me some of your techno/electro whatever stuff!

And listen to my acoustic stuff.

EDIT: Maybe more Muse than Radiohead...

[KleptoJesus]

Thanks for the feedback.

I see what your saying about the tone on my guitar, I just never pay very much attention to that stuff. I'm singing and, yes, I suck... I don't want to sing it's just that we don't have any better alternative, yet.

Little puppet man like radiohead... hmmm... I am flattered. I just need to record my bass a little bit better on that track and it will be decent.

I might put up some electronic stuff this weekend, I would have done it earlier but I left my password at home and I can't access the website. I might check out your other stuff PECOAE.