something about this song feels a little uninspired until the stop-start section with the inner critic cutting into the melody, which is a cool idea executed well. The harmonies give the rest of the song a lift but it's only really that one part that sticks with me.

The harmony vocals sprinkled in are nice. The interjected "no you're not, just give up" is a great way to musically represent the voice of the inner critic, this song's concept, with a little bit of dissonance and 7/8 thrown in there. You weren't kidding about stuffing lots of guitar solos into the song. I was a bit worried that the solos would sound forced in there or outstay their welcome but here I am at the end of the song and that hasn't happened. One small gripe I have is that the drums sound kind of weak for this genre. Maybe some transient shaping, saturation, or maybe just a little fader bump would get me out of my seat.

MOAR GLENN. Basically most of the stuff I heard when I listened are nitpicks, little bits of vocal phrasing around beats, maybe would’ve been cool to have the music cut out on the last “afraid” and let the harmonies hang, but I think the point of what I feel is that this song kind of wants to breathe a little more somewhere. Maybe it’s that I feel like the second verse is more of the first verse, and yes, impressionism, but some more development of the theme would add a lot I think. Maybe it’s about describing the monster and how it affects your emotions, like I’m willing to get drawn in, so draw me in already.

Much appreciated turnaround from the joke-ish entries.
Strength: performance, lead guitar
Weakness: some weird lyrical choices

The main melodic hook in this song reminds me strongly of some other song, and I'm not 100% what but I think it might be Neil Diamond's "Porcupine Pie". This is a nice poppy guitarry feel-good tune. The bridge was unexpected but unfortunately also kind of ruined this for me; just too jarring. It makes total sense to me why you did it, conceptually, but I just didn't really enjoy listening to that part of it and it took me out of this song every time I heard it. The guest harmonies are nice, lends this an extra rich and full sound. I like your vocal performance on those "you're good enough" lines, a bit of a crooner feel. Gosh this has a lot of guitar solos. I don't mind though. I like the idea behind the lyrics, the last verse is my favorite here, although to me there's a bit of a mismatch between the sort of joyous feel of the music and the dark nature of the lyrics (discordant bridge aside). I have to say the little baby monster also sounds too cute to be upset about.

There are some very obvious rhymes in this straight pop-punk tune and the multiple guitar solos feel like they're only there to pad out the arrangement. I love the bridge and the interplay with backing vocals ("No, you're not...) but the other section is pretty forgettable for me. I really like the sentiment behind the lyric though. The slight distortion on the vocals is great and the harmonies are tight (they remind me of Boo Radleys at times).