2014-01-01 4:02:00 ¶ ●

By Ashley Jones

It’s kind of a melody in camouflage: the track draws from many sources (the main riff comes from Havoc), but the groove it builds is consistent and smooth throughout.

2014-01-02 4:01:00 ¶ ●

By Marcy “Shadolith” Nabors

When I heard this song, the first thing that popped into my head was: this should be the title screen song for an NES game about The Big Man. This song inspired me to produce fanart.

2014-01-03 4:02:00 ¶ ●

By Block Monster (OMGTSN & Solatrus)

Full-bore techno rave, with Frost’s weird ethereal backgrounds playing second fiddle.

2014-01-04 4:02:00 ¶ ●

By Robyo

Upward Movement, but at once both more metal and less wide-ranging. The section starting around 3:00, with high-pitched lead against distorted, crunching rhythm guitar, is especially cool.

2014-01-05 4:02:00 ¶ ●

By William Ascenzo

I’ve always liked solid metal jams, and this one’s excellent. And the incorporation of the strings and the tubular bells later on in the track is seamless and lends the tune a little extra gravity. My top track for the album.

2014-01-05 21:01:00 ¶ ●

Potential Homestuck ending #420: the dark carnival.

2014-01-06 4:03:00 ¶ ●

By AutoDevote (SparksD2145)

A mashup of twinkly Firefly Cloud and slow-paced Doctor. It’s a little like a synth-heavy, electronic version of Green Ghost too (which was a particularly good track off of coloUrs and Mayhem B).

2014-01-07 4:02:00 ¶ ●

By UWBW

A bouncy, scatty jazz number. It’s so effortlessly improvisational. Not just with jazz-style instrumental improvisation (and there’s plenty of that in the piano and bass parts), but also in use of the samples, like the brass lead-in and the vocals. Very cool.

2014-01-07 23:24:00 ¶ ●

Potential Homestuck ending #129: the butterfly effect.

2014-01-08 4:02:00 ¶ ●

By A Lunatic’s Daydream

In an earlier review, I mentioned that I didn’t really like the source for this tune: it was a little, in the words of Rose, ‘melodramatic and heavy-handed.’ Changing out the church organ for electric guitar (and bouncy piano in the middle) lightens it up and makes for a fun jam.

2014-01-09 4:02:00 ¶ ●

By Colin “Elision” Stanfill

A circusy, chiptune take on Sunsetter. No, not the dark carnival kind of music that makes Gamzee beat people to death. Good circus (it even sounds a little like a calliope in the lower notes).

2014-01-10 4:02:00 ¶ ●

By Ian “myusernamesmud” White. Some percussion provided by Veritas Unae.

A drumroll-led march for the citizens of Can Town. Onward, TaB! You have the helm, Mr. Pibb. Get that man to Dr. Pepper immediately! (On an unrelated note, until I glanced at the track art, I didn’t make the connection in the title.)

2014-01-10 5:43:00 ¶ ●

## BROWSE BY ARTIST - FAN ARTISTS

Click on [song reviews] to see this site’s reviews for individual songs (and solo albums) by that artist. Click [artist website] for their own personal site.

David “A Lunatic’s Daydream” Ellis - [song reviews] [artist website]

Yan “Nucleose” Rodriguez - [song reviews] [artist website]

Eston “silence” Schweickart - [song reviews] [artist website]

Astro Kid - [song reviews] [artist website]

Gec - [song reviews]

Brad “Avinoch” Griffin - [song reviews] [artist website]

James Roach - [song reviews]

Marcy “Shadolith” Nabors - [song reviews] [artist website]

Veritas Unae - [song reviews] [artist website]

Mai “Catboss” Yishan - [song reviews] [artist website]

Samm Neiland - [song reviews] [artist website]

Kevin “UWBW” Grant - [song reviews] [artist website]

William Ascenzo - [song reviews] [artist website]

2014-01-10 5:43:00 ¶ ●

## BROWSE BY ARTIST - MUSIC TEAM

Click on [song reviews] to see this site’s reviews for individual songs (and solo albums) by that artist. Click [artist website] for their own personal site.

Toby “Radiation” Fox - [song reviews] [artist website]

Clark “Plazmataz” Powell - [song reviews] [artist website]

Michael Guy Bowman - [song reviews] [artist website]

Joren “Tensei” de Bruin - [song reviews] [artist website]

Alexander Rosetti - [song reviews] [artist website]

Erik “Jit” Scheele - [song reviews] [artist website]

Malcolm Brown - [song reviews] [artist website]

Mark Hadley - [song reviews]

Robert J! Lake - [song reviews] [artist website]

Tyler Dever - [song reviews] [artist website]

Thomas “EidolonOrpheus” Ferkol - [song reviews] [artist website]

Jeremy “Solatrus” Iamurri - [song reviews] [artist website]

Kalibration - [song reviews]

Seth “Beatfox” Peelle - [song reviews] [artist website]

George Buzinkai - [song reviews] [artist website]

Nick “OMGTSN” Smalley - [song reviews] [artist website]

Andrew Huo - [song reviews]

2014-01-10 5:43:24 ¶ ●

## BRO-NOTES: BROWSE BY ARTIST AVAILABLE

Like a particular Homestuck artist? Want to listen to more of their tunes? It’ll be a lot easier to look up on this site now: I’ve tagged every music post with artist hashtags, and there’s a couple of index pages now available that I’ll be keeping up to date (you can find them here). I’ve adjusted my index page links so that ’BROWSE BY ALBUM’ and ’BROWSE BY ARTIST’ are both available there as well.

I’ve included links to the most prolific music team and fan artists so far, and I will be expanding the index as we go along. If you happen to run across a bad link or incorrect information (or, if you have an artist website for those who are missing direct links), let me know!

2014-01-11 4:02:01 ¶ ●

By UWBW

Chiptune climactic strife music. It’s got an old-school NES Contra vibe, especially in that intro.

2014-01-12 4:02:11 ¶ ●

By Yan “Nucleose” Rodriguez

This jazz trio would fit right in on Drawing Dead. It’s a direction I wouldn’t have thought to take on Atomyk Ebonpyre. The piano improvisation is creative and flows well.

2014-01-12 4:16:00 ¶ ●

Potential Homestuck ending #434: corpse party.

2014-01-13 4:02:02 ¶ ●

By Eston “silence” Schweickart

Not to sell it short, but ‘musically interesting’ is the best description I can give. Love how a chaotic, metallic 'noise’ slowly fades into actual music, and the odd woodblock percussion could be hammered on the tops of appropriately sized grandfather clocks, for all we know.

2014-01-14 4:02:00 ¶ ●

By Thomas “EidolonOrpheus” Ferkol

Jazzy piano and cacophonous crash cymbal, with a catchy, Bond-eque hook.

2014-01-15 4:02:10 ¶ ●

By Joe “DoubleJoeSeven” Ouellet

Another cool reworking of Candles and Clockwork from Volume 5. It’s a little bit of a funkier take on the original (great percussion beats throughout).

2014-01-16 4:02:17 ¶ ●

By Princey The Kid

This is the song for when Dave and Dirk finally get together to fuck shit up. It’s a great combination of intense electric guitar rock and beat-boxing synth.

2014-01-17 4:02:17 ¶ ●

By Thomas “EidolonOrpheus” Ferkol

it never really gets all that threatening, but the main low, looming synth hook works great against the flighty chiptune-y melody that hops around over top of it.

2014-01-18 4:02:00 ¶ ●

By Veritas Unae. Assistance provided by A Lunatic’s Daydream.

Maybe this will give you an idea of the scope of this album. This track (and its second part) is inspired somewhat by the album Sburb. These two tracks clock in at nearly 2/3rds the length of that entire album. And these are 2 tracks, out of 63 on this album.

This composition is solo piano through and through, much like Sburb. The largo treatment of Lotus around the 3:10 mark is my favorite amongst the many melodies visited in this track. The very different piano rendition of Savior of the Dreaming Dead just before it is fun to hear, too.

2014-01-19 4:01:55 ¶ ●

By Veritas Unae. Assistance provided by A Lunatic’s Dream.

Two parts, two posts. I especially like how slow, introspective parts from Sburb are used to tie together more dramatic segments like the bit from Gold Pilot.

On the other hand, the version of October early in this track loses a bit in the reprise. The original’s stacatto key-bouncing positivity is hard to top: One Year Older will be a fun album to review when we roll around to it.

2014-01-19 21:03:00 ¶ ●

## Has homestuck updated yet

Let’s check.

2014-01-19 23:04:00 ¶ ●

Potential Homestuck ending #75 #1: Makara and The Bulge.

2014-01-20 4:02:11 ¶ ●

By Fuzz

Ethereal and light. The synth effect that backs the melody starting around 1:30 is pretty awesomely weird. It’s like a heavily processed pipe organ in an echoey room.

2014-01-21 4:02:16 ¶ ●

By Brad “Avinoch” Griffin

This track has a little bit of easy-listening, funky, muzak vibe going for it. The main source, Heart of the Forest by Solatrus, is a little more solemn. But combined with Flare, all that brooding, threatening tone is diminished, and it’s more about the jam than the attitude.

2014-01-22 4:01:56 ¶ ●

By Matt “NiceWizard” Lee

This song captures a little bit of that wonder and innocence that I like so much in Homestuck off of Volume 5. Especially in the payoff at around 1:20 or so. Pretty high up on my list of favorites for this album.

2014-01-23 4:02:10 ¶ ●

By Team Dogfight

A right proper companion piece in the ‘ridiculous weaponry’ musical genre. It’s almost too professional and catchy for its subject, but that’s the point, really. Treating a preposterous subject with extreme drama and gravity is an underused facet of irony, methinks.

2014-01-24 4:02:03 ¶ ●

By Astro Kid

God damn. If he can do this with Squiddles, I’m going to have to listen to some of his other stuff to see what else he’s got up his sleeve. How can a saccharine, squeaky cartoon character have actual rhythm and flow?

2014-01-25 4:01:54 ¶ ●

By Robert J! Lake

I am blown away.

2014-01-25 4:24:00 ¶ ●

## do you know when the homestuck update is?

Let’s see if Vriska can figure it out.

Lousy cheap piece of shit.

2014-01-26 4:02:11 ¶ ●

RATING: 8 / 13 – bald faced flipping insmanatee

…great sahara of unfinished panels sprawls before you. in distant oasis you make out, just barely, a clown flipping you off. – Troll Charles Barkley

I’m almost certain that was Troll Barkley. So here, in the middle of a long drought in the comic (and an even longer music drought), we have brand new music. It’s not official, granted, but it’s 63 tracks of Homestuck-inspired mayhem.

Like most of the volume compilations (and the other LOFAM albums), it covers everything. You’ve got your heavy metal (Sign of the Scorpion, INFIDELS!), quite a bit of jazz (Sketches in Black, Thermoporia), chiptune (OhGodBoss, Contention), classical (Garden of Eden, Dance of Viridian and Violet), and some clever novelty tunes (Sord……, Invertebrate). And that’s just the start. I didn’t expect this review to last all month, but there’s too much cool music to rush. It doesn’t have the monster hits that some of the official albums have, but this is a solid piece of work.

Once again, as an unofficial release, it’s available for free, and the entire album (one ZIP file, all in MP3 format) can be downloaded from skaia.net.

Click here for individual song reviews for Land of Fans and Music 3.

2014-01-26 22:26:00 ¶ ●

Potential Homestuck ending #75 #2: hard-boiled justice.

2014-01-27 3:12:33 ¶ ●

## BRO-NOTES: MAD REQUESTS, YO

There are three requested albums left from late last year. So how shall I pick which comes first… draw straws? No, that’s more for selecting a reluctant, blue-collar hero to save Earth from an asteroid. Dice? Boring. Nah, I’ll go with the most ancient and respected method for impartially selecting a random choice: click and drag the obnoxious flashing GIF. Here it is, in case you want to play along at home!

Yeah. Quality content.

2014-01-27 4:02:08 ¶ ●

The GIF gods have spoken: Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido, up next.

2014-01-28 3:32:00 ¶ ●

## Alternian history secret: Iron Infidel was the song that Signless worshippers (typically lowbloods) sang in his memory. However, the non-worshipping highbloods (who never caught on to this) remixed it into INFIDELS! and played and "sang along" to it to ridicule lowbloods.

“I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints” — Troll Billy Idol

2014-01-28 4:01:52 ¶ ●

By Michael Guy Bowman

Fanart source: socks-and-notebooks.

For such a high-energy, spirited tune, it’s got a surprisingly deep message behind it. Check out the lyrics in the video description here. Bowman’s falsetto vocals are a little chancy, but it works.

2014-01-29 4:01:54 ¶ ●

By Michael Guy Bowman

Some albums feature an intro track that sets the tone, yet is wholly dependent on the album it’s leading into. This song sets the tone, yet works as a single, too. It’s a little eerie, a little quasi-ambient, but each layer adds a little more depth, a little more detail, until it leaves off with a crashing surge.

2014-01-30 4:01:54 ¶ ●

By Michael Guy Bowman

If Sburban Jungle is Skaia’s overworld music, then this is what’s pumped through the Battlefield’s underground speakers when you’re in the middle of a subterranean quest / level.

2014-01-31 4:01:57 ¶ ●

By Michael Guy Bowman

A cool electronic groove with a hard-rockin’ band to back it up. My top track for the album.