So all I can say of the song is it has sort of a post-hardcore/alt/indie rock feel to it. I actually remember the music video pretty clearly. It's all animated in a simplistic way, and it starts off with this blue/green background and zooms in on a turtle shell. The turtle comes out of the shell and starts walking, then a meteor comes and blows the turtle to pieces. On the pieces, there's people (drawn as stick figures IIRC) and houses and shit (all very simplistic), and they're all doing whatever. At certain parts it changes to just show a silhouette of a person singing along to the lyrics of the song. Around the last verse, the turtle comes back together (still alive, no blood or anything like that) and just gets back in it's shell. It's weird and abstract, but yeah that's about it. Also, I'm 98% sure someone said the band was from Europe. Somewhere Northeastern if I recall correctly. Finnish, maybe. It was sung in English, though.
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So, back to your actual song, going into it, I was concerned that it was just going to be that tense violin buildup with nothing but those hard hitting beats after that. And then the singer came in, and I was like "Ahh, okay, this is the actual song." Still though, those hard stings were useless. And then in the interlude between the second and third verse they were distracting. I wonder if there's actually supposed to be some creative artistic value to it or if it was just noise. Either way, I don't understand why they were used at all. They just sounded cheesy and honestly, the whole song loses a full point just for that. I get that sometimes musicians experiment with shit, and sometimes that shit fails.
As for the rest of the song... (listens to it again). It was... okay. The chorus felt generic (and suffered from sudden-needless-tempo-change-itis, my least favorite musical element), but I did enjoy the overall instrumental composition of the rest of the song (not counting the back-to-back stings), but I really wasn't a big fan of the overall melody. It seemed really devoid of range, first of all. The lyrics were okay, but forgettable. Most importantly, it feels like the artist just took ascending and descending chord progressions and made the occasional tweak here and there. I'll trust your judgment that this is one of your favorite "hit or miss" artists, but this song was a miss, IMO. 5/10.
Haven't brought up any of my ambient post-rock shit in awhile, so here you go.
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