Hi! I’m Syn! People tend to come to my walrus reveals because of the banter and my (sometimes bad) attempts at making mean write-ups sound fun. What this means is that I don’t try to find the good in every song, and I make full use of the 0 -> 10 number range when scoring. Category averages between 4-6 are not uncommon.
But! You are welcome to ask me to be nice when you submit, and I will do so. I don’t want anyone to feel bad after a reveal; I want them to enjoy themselves and to want to come to the next one. If having your song judged kindly is what will make it fun for you, do not hesitate to ask for that.
Everyone’s worst score will be dropped at the end of the walrus. I will score songs between 0 and 10 with allowance for overages on the 10s if I have a particularly strong podium. I make use of a single decimal place, so expect to see 3.1s and 8.5s and such. There is no science to my scoring and I mostly go by vibes in the moment and upon reflection when seeing the surrounding songs in the same score cluster. I generally do not judge cat fit closely unless I feel the song is wildly divergent from the spirit of the category.
I listen to each song at least twice.
Lastly, I usually do not offer hints for what to submit. I use walruses to broaden my music tastes, so biasing everyone toward songs I already love always felt wrong. Still, I want to give people a better chance of submitting something I enjoy. Please try to avoid submitting songs over 8 minutes long.
I’ve created a Spotify playlist of songs from previous walruses that won or that ended up on one of my playlists for a while. Check it out!
The winner gets a prize.
Submitters
- Lyris (Submitted)
- tutuu (Submitted)
- Harun (Submitted)
- WIM (Submitted)
- Frederico (Submitted)
- Red (Submitted)
- marching_hats (Submitted)
- hollowkatt (Submitted)
- Yagni (Submitted)
- Dobby (Submitted)
- nutella (Submitted)
- 112 (Submitted)
- Wisdom (Submitted)
- falcon45ca (Submitted)
- Roxy (Submitted)
- Razane (Submitted)
- Razane 2 (Submitted)
- Alexandre (Submitted)
- Marmot (Submitted)
- Aoitsuki0 (Submitted)
- DeadlyEssence01 (Submitted)
- FrostburnPhoenix (Submitted)
- local_hero (Submitted)
- Ola (Submitted)
- ignoramus (Submitted)
- Johanna (Submitted)
- Chocoportals (Submitted)
- Cuthalion (Submitted)
- JB (Submitted)
- Bloobird (Submitted)
- Dunia (Submitted)
- Raskolnikov (Submitted)
- Jambi (Submitted)
- NateTheLesser (Submitted)
- Simon (Submitted)
- Epignosis (Submitted)
- Tehanu (Submitted)
- Spacedaisy (Submitted)
- Made (Submitted)
- EdwinQ (Submitted)