2014-04-09 4:01:49 ¶ ●

Green Sun (By Kalibration) is one of the bonus tracks on the album. Of all the songs, I think this one has the strongest melody on the playlist. The intro has a bit of that Felt vibe to it, too.

2014-04-10 4:02:05 ¶ ●

By Kalibration

Slow, dulce strings. The mood’s right on target, with those maudlin, wandering notes. More of a background ambiance than a stand-alone track.

2014-04-11 4:02:03 ¶ ●

By Kalibration

A mellow xylophone track. The mellowest, most leisurely song on the entire album, as a matter of fact. It seems this track was cut before The Concesce’s ‘SEA HITLER’ persona was revealed, so unless the Batterwitch turned over a hell of a new leaf, the song isn’t all that related to its subject. Doesn’t stop it from being a relaxing beat, though.

2014-04-12 4:02:06 ¶ ●

By Kalibration

An exotic exercise in bongo drums and finger cymbals. There’s no instrumental melody to compete with, and that talent for percussion has a little more room to shine.

2014-04-13 4:02:01 ¶ ●

By Kalibration

I like the hook. I like it a lot. It’s bouncy and cagey, and it fits Mindfang awfully well. But there’s a few parts that make it hard to listen to. The heavily distorted outro comes to mind, or the crazy chiptune bit blowout that starts around the one minute mark.

2014-04-14 4:01:50 ¶ ●

By Kalibration

This one pulls off a sort of a ‘Friday the 13th’ feel in the intro. The first half shows promise, but the second half (right after the big vocal sample) devolves into a freestyle mess of drum kit and ultra-synth.

2014-04-15 4:01:50 ¶ ●

By Kalibration

I like the introduction with those roaring horns, but after that… it just sort of wanders from musical fragment to musical fragment. It feels patched together: there’s no unifying theme.

2014-04-16 3:01:43 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

thedude3445:

> beat-bro:

> > By Robert Blaker

> > I like the introduction with those roaring horns, but after that… it just sort of wanders from musical fragment to musical fragment. It feels patched together: there’s no unifying theme.

> I gotta disagree here that the combination of fragments makes it un-unified. A huge part of why Robert Blaker’s stuff is so cool is because it layers in so many different contrasting themes to make the song as a whole really good. This is the best example of that in my opinion, though the obvious choice for most people would be Upward Movement (or Valhalla if you’re a Homestuck music hipster). I think that in this case, it does a fantastic job of conveying Dualscar’s character through the mix of blaring badass parts and a classy waltz tune. In fact, I’d go out on a limb and say wwretched wwaltz might be my favorite Homestuck piece by KalibrationLTD because of that.

> Hopefully you’re prepared for the fact a good chunk of the rest of Tomb of the Ancestors is the same way. I love it, though I understand that his music, especially his Homestuck music, is a bit divisive.

You raise a good point! Upward Movement (another one of Robert Blaker’s songs) is similar to wwretched wwaltz in composition (it has a lot of smaller song segments tied together as one track), but where I think the latter is choppy, the former feels smooth, catchy, and really well done. Maybe it’s the intensity that puts me off.

2014-04-16 4:01:59 ¶ ●

By Kalibration

Well, it’s loud and busy. The percussion overwhelms the main melody, and in the second half it’s chaotic to the point of cacophony.