San Cisco - Wild Things

I'm just going through whatever music is new at the moment and there's quite a few things I don't like here. Most of my entries are praising but for a change we need some more criticism.
  • Vocals are overly breathy in verses, not much energy behind them (sounding lazy). 
  • 1:08: A real mess here, some very cloudy voices (maybe just conversation) in the background creating a sonic mess. The whistle in the second half sounds right off tune, the 'arpy' synth on top steals a lot focus by being much more clean cut sounding than everything in the background (maybe too much). 
  • After that section: What's going on with the drums? One tom sounds like it's filled with water or something. 
  • Chorus: Laser sound is pretty cheesy, double tracked vocals sound a bit too out of time from each other. If they're not backing vocals they should sound like one voice. This whole section has some other underwater wash going on that for whatever aesthetic it adds is just mud in terms of sound. 
  • 1:51, some pretty nasty drum sampling, very disjointed drum fill. This is even worse at 2:11 when the whole thing is just right off time. 
  • This final chorus is just more frustrating than the last with plenty of loose sounding off-tune mud. 
There's a lot here that just clashed with my ears and interpretations of good production. I think we needed one of those in this diary. I found this track browsing the "what's new" on Spotify. 

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