Best Townie, Maffies 4, 8 and 9 Best Scum, Maffies 3 Best Moderator, Maffies 8 and 9 Most Valuable Player, Maffies 7 and 9 Best Roleplay, Maffies 4 and 6 Spirit Award, Maffies 9 Hall of Fame inductee, Maffies 4
Mafia Universe
Mafia Championship Finalist, 2015 and 2020 Best Town Player, 2020
I'm still waiting on submissions from [mention]Epignosis[/mention] [mention]sprityo[/mention] [mention]JaggedJimmyJay[/mention] [mention]Sloonei[/mention] [mention]G-Man[/mention] [mention]motobot[/mention] [mention]Queen Pink[/mention]
Best Townie, Maffies 4, 8 and 9 Best Scum, Maffies 3 Best Moderator, Maffies 8 and 9 Most Valuable Player, Maffies 7 and 9 Best Roleplay, Maffies 4 and 6 Spirit Award, Maffies 9 Hall of Fame inductee, Maffies 4
Mafia Universe
Mafia Championship Finalist, 2015 and 2020 Best Town Player, 2020
For those who are interested in attending the live listening parties, is there a specific night of the week that doesn't work for you? I'm looking to keep our regular start time of 8pm EST, and likely during the second half of the week since I work late sometimes Mon - wed
G-Man wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2020 11:12 pm
I work from home at the present time, so I am available most nights. I have a few evening Zoom meetings coming up, but they’re usually on Tuesdays.
I’ll send my tracks in tomorrow. Sorry- been very busy.
Best Townie, Maffies 4, 8 and 9 Best Scum, Maffies 3 Best Moderator, Maffies 8 and 9 Most Valuable Player, Maffies 7 and 9 Best Roleplay, Maffies 4 and 6 Spirit Award, Maffies 9 Hall of Fame inductee, Maffies 4
Mafia Universe
Mafia Championship Finalist, 2015 and 2020 Best Town Player, 2020
Best Townie, Maffies 4, 8 and 9 Best Scum, Maffies 3 Best Moderator, Maffies 8 and 9 Most Valuable Player, Maffies 7 and 9 Best Roleplay, Maffies 4 and 6 Spirit Award, Maffies 9 Hall of Fame inductee, Maffies 4
Mafia Universe
Mafia Championship Finalist, 2015 and 2020 Best Town Player, 2020
I’ll try to be in the chat for Round 1, but I can all but guarantee that I won’t be able to listen in. I’ll listen to everyone’s picks later on. That’s peak hyper kids time around these parts.
Best Townie, Maffies 4, 8 and 9 Best Scum, Maffies 3 Best Moderator, Maffies 8 and 9 Most Valuable Player, Maffies 7 and 9 Best Roleplay, Maffies 4 and 6 Spirit Award, Maffies 9 Hall of Fame inductee, Maffies 4
Mafia Universe
Mafia Championship Finalist, 2015 and 2020 Best Town Player, 2020
Best Townie, Maffies 4, 8 and 9 Best Scum, Maffies 3 Best Moderator, Maffies 8 and 9 Most Valuable Player, Maffies 7 and 9 Best Roleplay, Maffies 4 and 6 Spirit Award, Maffies 9 Hall of Fame inductee, Maffies 4
Mafia Universe
Mafia Championship Finalist, 2015 and 2020 Best Town Player, 2020
Glory Days - Pulp
“Glory Days” has great structure and setting. Tonally, it’s reminiscent of When In Rome or The Airborne Toxic Event. The lyrics are a metered stream of consciousness; one can ride the writer’s train of thought all the way around. Maybe just a little too earnest and self-conscious for my taste, but it’s got a nice overall sound.
7.6
Submitted by: JaggedJimmyJay
Apartment Story - The National
This feels like a currently relevant POV in the time of covid with lines like “We’ll stay inside til somebody finds us, do whatever the TV tells us”. The voice is afraid of leaving the safety of this almost pleasant but not quite fulfilling bubble, and maybe they’re right to feel that way.
7.7
Submitted by: nutella
The Thing With Me - Toehider
Brutally honest. A visceral and all-too real trainwreck.
8.9
Submitted by: speedchuck
Computer Face// Pure Being - Flying Lotus
TITLE TRACK - iaafr
Where are we going? The sound molecules are packed dense and tight, but they’re trapped in an undefined nucleus.
5.5
Submitted by: iaafr
Min, Min Mio - Weatherday
The voice is warbly and unrefined. To me it feels like all flaws and no strengths on display. An interesting character study, but not all that pleasant to listen to.
5.8
Submitted by: gbsfranca
Happy - Pharrell Williams
An unpretentiously brilliant pop song; if we’re defining one state of mind we nailed it. It just feels incomplete as a POV, a slightly shallow exploration of a singular mood. It lacks dimension to really round it out.
7.3
Submitted by: Queen Pink
Alive - P.O.D.
What a throwback. In a lot of ways I feel like the singer is putting on a mask of feeling alive, to hide from the things that don’t make them feel alive at all. It’s a little bit of a lie that becomes a truth.
6.8
Submitted by: G-Man
Reach For the Stars - Sonic Colors
TITLE TRACK for motobot
Man, I’m just so happy for this guy. You can tell he’s going to succeed and have a fun time along the way. The synths and pop-punk instrumentation are paired well with the sunny lyrics.
7.4
Submitted by: motobot
We Carry On - Portishead
An incredible reveal of intention set against a grimey backdrop. The eerie vocals and pulsating industrialism bleed into each other to paint an adrenalized soundscape. A violent and empowering turning point in the relationship between the singer and their environment.
9.6
Submitted by: M Plus 7
Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear
Springboard percussion and spritely harmonies elevate this song from generic indie rock into something a little more unique. Having been submitted to the POV category, I can’t help but feel there’s a deeper story behind its inclusion here.
7.9
Submitted by: sprityo
Slo Fuzz - Sol Seppy
The name of the song describes its aesthetics to a tee. I could lose myself in this subdued yearning. It brings dimension and weight to the room without being overpowering.
8.7
Submitted by: Sloonei
Color Your World - Devin Townsend
No.
1.1
Submitted by: birdwithteeth11
Simon - Lifehouse
A beautiful relationship emerges from the pain shared between the singer and the subject. The song effectively utilizes POV to convey the tremendous extent of the damage and the abuse; damage which is impossible to ignore and threatens to define us. Yet the existence of hope makes it beautiful and not exclusively tragic.
9.2
Submitted by: Epignosis
American Boy - Estelle feat. Kanye West
TITLE TRACK FOR MACDOUGALL
Just a great song really. High production values, clever but not abrasive rhymes from Kanye, and a hook that gets caught in your brain. There’s innocence and pure desire here, like a PG-rated romance. I like how the nonlinear verses deftly dance around the hook.
8.8
Submitted by: MacDougall
To Here Knows When - My Bloody Valentine (TITLE TRACK)
This is what I imagine a star forming in the night sky sounds like. Beautifully incomprehensible.
8.0
Submitted by: birdwithteeth11
In The Face of Evil - Magic Sword
Magic Sword! Deliberately plotted. Sometimes crunchy, sometimes slick and neon. I would have appreciated some organic instrumentation to go along with the synths, but within its lane it’s a great piece.
7.2
Submitted by: speedchuck
Alice - Pogo
This is delicious.
8.4
Submitted by: iaafr
A young magic practitioner excited about their immediate future. It’s like cotton candy to my ears. A little more depth to the production would have rated it higher for me.
7.3
Submitted by: motobot
Make Believe - Kero Kero Bonito
A decent example of squeezing a pop song into a theme. It’s pretty close to succeeding at its mission statement. The vocal range is constrained which holds it back, and the lyrics are at 75% inspiration.
7.1
Submitted by: gbsfranca
A Cloak of Elvenkind - Marcy Playground
This is what a teenage wizard listens to in the basement while smoking weed and forgetting to practice his spells.
6.9
Submitted by: MacDougall
The Magician - Magic Fantasy Music composed by Peter Gundry
Exactly what I wanted out of this category. The magic is palpable, it has character and movement. It left me wanting more like I’m out of mana.
9.7
Submitted by: Queen Pink
Can’t Get It Out of My Head - Electric Light Orchestra
It’s not tremendously on-theme, more like theme-adjacent, but I can appreciate the track. It’s simple but elegant. Sad Wizard Life
7.8
Submitted by: Epignosis
The Birth and Death of a Day - Explosions in the Sky
Maybe this is the aftermath of magic; what the world sounds like when magic has seeped back into it. Crushingly heavy leads into light and airy, the song itself has an evolution to it as alluded to in the title.
7.7
Submitted by: G-Man
Reach for the Summit - Celeste Original Soundtrack
Kind of like a futuristic sci-fi magic. Definitely a cool piece, though it didn’t quite earn its length.
7.6
Submitted by: sprityo
Secret of Life - Lord Huron
All magic has a price. In this song, Lord Huron walks the line between success and sacrifice. It’s like he’s found something hidden, and now he’s using it, and he’s going to follow wherever it takes him, knowing it will be worth the cost.
8.9
Submitted by: Sloonei
Earthrise - Camel - Mirage
I wasn’t sure which was the song’s name, the band’s name, or the album’s name. I think it’s from a different school of magic than the one I went to.
5.8
Submitted by: JaggedJimmyJay
Plantasia - Mort Garson
I was incredibly bored by this until about halfway through. It sounds more like space than magic.
5.9
Submitted by: M Plus 7
The Hymn of Acxiom
This is how you cast a spell.
9.2
Submitted by: nutella
I listened through all the Cat1 tunes today. Sprityo, Sloonei, and Queen Pink were my top three (excluding my own submission). Some of you folks made me feel like a bright shining optimist. Makes me want to give out some free hugs if not for Corona...
We're going to try to run this at 7pm EST on Saturday, this should hopefully accommodate [mention]MacDougall[/mention] and [mention]dunya[/mention] (and hopefully gbs too) being able to attend along with all the Americans