I know Ashley through FAWM and have done a collaboration with her the past four years in a row and always enjoy working with her. We've recently decided we're gonna try do more collaborations outside of FAWM and try create a transatlantic supergroup ala Songfight's own Vowl Sounds, so when this chal...

Chorus uses the Royal Road progression in C Major, FMaj7–G7–Em7–Am (this was the example given on Wikipedia and I am nothing if not lazy) This song didn't really go where I intended, at a certain point I decided to just roll with it and recorded a Pet Shop Boys style sing speaky verse halfway throug...

got a song I quite like here unfortunately hamstrung by me trying to sing hungover and it being far too hot to stay inside all day doing lots of takes, so here are my comped together hangover vocals. Musically started off trying to do an LCD Soundsystem build up (complete with loose ahhhhooooooooh v...

oh wow another TLB song that's a metaphor for mental health, how original :roll: The Lowest Bitter - Sink or Swim "y'know, you gotta sink or swim" (will you sink or swim?) "y'know, you gotta sink or swim" ... I don't wanna go under when I finally felt the summer, sensed the water...

Liner and sample info Challenge samples: recorded myself making a gin and tonic and sliced sounds out of it to use as the main percussion track - you can hear ice being dropped in the glass, the bottle being uncapped, the fizz of the tonic. It's not my main sample, but I also recorded someone playi...

LINER I started writing lyrics about one thing and then I decided I hated the lyrics. I'm gonna be vague but it was a song about something happening to a friend and it just felt shitty and exploitative to be using someone else's real experiences and real misery for song fodder. So I binned that and...

Lovely (dis-)harmonies by Vom Vorton! I asked specifically for some drunk gang vocal sound for the low harmony in the chorus, I wanted the vocal to sound vaguely menacing and he delivered. Thanks Vom! Liner (CW: DRUGS/COCAINE): I went to Primavera Festival in Barcelona the other weekend and took coc...

Liner I'm off to Barcelona tomorrow for a week so I woke up this morning knowing I'd have to get a song out in a day. Luckily inspiration came pretty quickly for this challenge. My two narratives are 4 billion years apart. The chorus (in italics) is from the perspective of LUCA, aka the last univer...

LINER AND PALINDROMES: There are FIVE palindromic musical phrases in this song. Go big or go home. Listed by time of first appearance, I've also highlighted the midpoint of each palindrome as bold and underlined. Additionally the song structure is palindromic - verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, verse....

Liner: I want you to know I actually tried with this challenge, there was an idea of trying to write a song about something that has genuinely made me happy. Unfortunately the thing that's made me happy is the misfortune of others, so I probably failed to hit anyone else's definition of happy or fee...

I wanted to finish with 8 songs so here's a low key shadow that is definitely not my "A Game", but in the limited time I had to write I'm pretty pleased with how it came out. See you next year! The Lowest Bitter - Blue (shadow) my eyes used to be blue they faded now to grey it happened oh...

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I didn't really like this challenge or the clip that was chosen for it but I've come out with something I'm (relatively) happy with in the circumstances. I decided early on I didn't want to directly narrate the clip, and so my interpretation of the challenge would mainly rest on the music. To this ...

Wow, thanks judges! Weird how things turn out, I was feeling pretty down about this song by the time I submitted it because it didn't really end up exactly how I wanted it, and I wasn't happy with my vocals. I'd resigned myself to being a goner this round especially after last week when a song that ...

I've been trying to write down time codes for cuts and fades in this video and work out what my plan is for this challenge, and just putting it out there that this might be the worst Nur Ein challenge ever. As far as I can make out there's around 20 cuts in this under 3 minute video. Some of them ar...

I've not found the time or energy for reviews so far but as we're now down to a more manageable amount of entries thought I'd jump in now with some. Good round on the whole, and with some excellent shadows. Brown Word and the Big Whine : not really a fan of rock, but this wins me over at least a lit...

Basically this song is about how even if society has become more accepting of homosexuality, they want you to be a certain type of gay. They want you to know your place, to not challenge them in any way, to be a sexless sitcom gay couple like Cam and Mitchell from Modern Family. So you're allowed t...

I had no idea what a rondel was, once I looked it up and saw it was some medieval-ass bullshit I downloaded a mandolin vst and some choir patches hoping to really lean into the genre with some gregorian greensleeves crap. That didn't really happen - I ended up using the mandolin and choir but someh...

Love those guitars, did you play those? It sounds different from your usual guitars so I thought they may be samples? I found a real sounding midi guitar sample in ableton and then moved a load of the notes around to make my own tune while keeping the different velocity settings programmed on each ...

Pleasant Row - The Lowest Bitter ft. Vom Vorton on GCSE German Translations in italics Liner Notes: This is a song about Berlin. I love Berlin, and it's been a while since I've been there and it's probably gonna be a while until I can go again with COVID travel restrictions. The chorus of this song...

I'll admit to being confused by what you wanted with this challenge, and I think it's resulted in a confused lyric that only barely makes sense to me, and also requires people to remember my first two songs, which I realise is asking a lot when there's 24 others in the competition. So I'm hoping tha...

Liner notes Had to get this one written and recorded quickly last night due to other commitments this week, I think it's turned out okay. It's about a malevolent looking stain I saw on a seat on the Glasgow Subway a couple years back, and about how paranoid I feel using the subway at the moment duri...