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guitars sound really nice, "Loki oh Loki" section is really catchy. The lyrics generally feel a little too wordy and awkward for the upbeat pop vibe of the song, like you've successfully shifted genre musically but the lyrics got stuck in progland 🙂 but this is one of the best of the round I think. Slidey guitar harmonies are nice and remind me of Clouds Taste Metallic-era Flaming Lips.

Nice shiny guitars. There are so many minor chords and half time bits in this. I think you've let your musicianship get in the way of just writing a bouncy G, C, D song which would've been the ticket. Still, since everyone seems to be fudging this challenge yours comes across relatively well.

This is pretty good Cavedwellers. I like the guitar noodling before the verse. While it's a creative idea, I just can't get behind it- the song feels too sterile. Execution: A-, concept: C+, hooks: B-

Upbeat energy right from the start and some clever, tongue twisting lyrics in this track with the "Odin is exploding..." verse the standout. Your storytelling is a real strength and your vocal melodies are super catchy. I feel like you might enjoy Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever.

Love the arrangement, that intro is ear candy. The lyrics are what killed this a bit for me. If I listen without really paying attention I really enjoy the melody, music, and production of this song, but the lyrics just feel so cringey and filky to me and like a bit of a Norse mythology Wikipedia song--"how can we cram ALL these gods in here and make self-consciously clever puns about them?" Like, I get that you're trying to retell the origin story of Friday the 13th, but it mostly comes across as a list of a bunch of characters and facts about them. You do get credit for taking a more original approach than "what if Jason??" like so many of these other tunes (I'm not marking anyone down for other people having the same idea, but it did get old to listen to the umpteenth reference). And they're certainly not generic. But the lyrics just don't work for me overall. "Like his sister Hela / He was a hella blood-lusting fella" couplet just rubbed me the wrong way in more ways than I can even express, and I'm even a person who grew up using "hella" unironically. They don't really meet the challenge of being happy, either, although the music is cheery enough.