The Syndicate

26th place:

fluffy rabbit

fusq - Suiito

This is a short but big bleep bass bloopy blip bloobloo blapple blaa.

7.5

27th place: Zarathustra Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To I don't typically enjoy this sort of cookie-cutter rock formula, but the vocals and lyrics are too gaudy to resist. This is probably a more accurate portrayal of beach atmosphere than any of the songs that get there trying. I had a good laugh...

28th place: Relm Chris Coole & John Showman - Battle of Cedar Creek God I was hoping you would send me something I could tank, because that just makes late subs so much easier. But I love this stuff and almost never get it in walruses. uh I mean, if I take a step back from directly enjoying it ...

29th place: soah Faustian Pact - Saastainen valo lintutornissa Well, this should be so jarring that no one will remember to say JermaJam was robbed. A valiant effort. If you shipped this to a snow theme I think you could be in contention for a top 10 spot, with those synth bell tones and that reall...

30th place: vanity. Punch Brothers - New York City And this is the last of the great full tanks. When I said chilling on a beach, I didn't mean freezing to death. Snowfall and frostbite aren't a great thematic start. I would love to hear bluegrass approach this category, but it's not the sort of so...

31st place: Moose Jeremy Morris - jermaJam I ended up watching 20 minutes of rat movie and related videos instead of working, and that's got to be worth something . Having no idea who Jeremy Morris is, I'm not fully in on the jokes in play here. The spoken clips don't really function when the song'...

32nd place: BoKnows Great Big Sea - The Night Pat Murphy Died This is fine. I mean, I tend to think of Great Big Sea as folk punk lite, but that's appropriate for the category. I don't know if this is the right track for me though. I get that it's a Newfoundland traditional, but it's got enough pul...

33rd place: LordQuas Tatsuro Yamashita - Sparkle This style ought to do pretty well with me, and it took a while to put my finger on why I felt so comfortable shifting it down farther and farther when I needed to make room. It's the vocals. His voice feels very rounded out on the edges, lacking pun...

34th place: Logic Lucas Ricciotti - The Last Flight This would have been an extremely functional submission to cat 7. I'm definitely thoroughly enjoying it. But I just... I don't get it here. It's a sunrise at the end of a journey. If I tried to place it on a beach, it would be on the edge of a for...

35th place: Kane AJJ - Brave as a Noun I have thoroughly fallen in love with AJJ over the course of running walruses, but I mean, the song is one minute long. And that's kind of the end of the story. It's beachy in a Pacific coast bonfire sort of way, but if you're going this short, you just have t...

36th place: KnightsofCydonia The Desert Sessions - Something You Can't See I did a triple take and had to start googling when I saw Queens of the Stone Age as the host account. I hadn't listened to them since since Lullabies to Paralyze but couldn't imagine their sound had changed this much. Made s...

37th place: Aladyyn Blue Effect - Čajovna This one gets the chop next for its limited replay value. It started out pretty high on my list; it's certainly my style. But there's very little variation branching off from the opening 7 seconds of the song. My first impression was a chill ride. By the th...

38th place: Bloobird Cayucas - Jessica WJ Something about playful songs artificially relating shallow love interests... In the absence of cuttingly clever lyrics or a massive dose of relatable innocence, I always end up taking them slightly more seriously than I ought to and hearing it like, me lik...

39th place: PunchyTheCat Taylor Swift - The Last Great American Dynasty This is the first time I've ever heard Taylor Swift, so I had a pretty blank slate walking into it. The instrumentation is pleasant and loosely functional in a beachy context, though more secluded wilderness than tourist town--...

40th place: Made Amnesty - Liberty Libery Liberty Liiiiiiberty... Ok, that's unfair. But the guitar in this is so dull it might as well not exist. They can sing, and that's cool, but it's not doing much of anything for me, and repetition is anti-helping. I mean, I think it's a thoughtful sub in tha...

41st place: staypositivefriend Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things I remember Rilo Kiley being a common talking point in the early 2000s indie scene, but I never got deeper than a sample track here and there. If this was one of them, I wouldn't be surprised. It seems like an odd song to put la...

1. 8am on a Delaware boardwalk We're kicking off our tour in the sun and sand with a warm ocean breeze. There are some boats on the horizon, but we aren't on them, and we certainly aren't defending the coast from space pi-borgs. Even the mutant squids lounge peacefully this morning. We're just chil...

Reveals start in about an hour, MU Discord.

I'm currently looking at 8/18 through 8/22 and 8/25 through 8/27 for reveal nights, on MU discord.

I'm at the half way hump now, and 5 and 6 tend to go the fastest.

Thinking full reveal should start no later than 8/18 pending the unforeseen.

You can still send something if you want. The first three categories might score lower by default. It will be a while before I even touch anything past 4.

Last day for submissions!

Reminder that I would very much appreciate cat 1 by tomorrow! By all means take your time on 4-8, and all submissions are welcome through 6/22, but I'm going to start listening to cat 1 subs on Tuesday.

Made wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 8:09 pm Any Banned artist?

Just the sample tracks.

Music I'm super familiar with tends to be at a slight disadvantage for scoring.

I don't make any conscious effort whatsoever to use prior subs in my samples, but as it panned out, twelve of them here are from subs I got in previous years. That's pretty cool.

ngl i'm still tilted i tried subbing ringo sheena to you and couldn't get the spotify link or whatever to work so gave up and then you ended up loving her the walrus right after I did finally set up a spotify account a couple weeks ago to link a song to someone that had been purged from youtube I d...

I'm in a bit of a pickle. I normally run this on MU, but I can't post there until June 1st, and I have a golden window right now starting June 8th to actually knock out scoring a bunch of these. I... am not sure why it took me until today to realize I could just post it here, but here we are. I will...

sent

tfw everything I want to submit is a cat 5 and 8 fit

o/