not sure if you're doing something different vocally here but I kept hearing mouth sounds through the whole song and it was very distracting. The song is OK, I feel like "This is Fine" was one of your better songs and this is one of your weaker ones, you're consistent enough that it was still a fairly enjoyable listen but combined with the vocal distractions I found this one sinking to the bottom of my list.

Shadows:

eerie and enchanting, haunted house vibes. Ever listen to Forgive Durden? Some of the time switches very much reminded me of them

I still feel like I’m being transported to another dimension with this, but the dimension is a bit more boring than last week’s. The energy level never seems to change, it all just kind of chugs along, and this just feels a bit monotonous to me… and then it just abruptly stops. The mellotron or whatever that is reminds me of the circus. I like the typewriter sounds. The lyrics seem pretty tossed-off, and I’m just not entirely sure in general what you’re trying to get across with the message and mood of this song. I appreciate the uniqueness of your sound, but it didn’t work so well for me in this song.

The first thing I hear is all of the saliva and Ss and consonants in my ears when you're singing. I'm not sure if you need a pop filter or something over the mic or just need to run the track through a filter in production, but a lot of those sounds are sharp in my headphones and make it hard to hear the rest of the song. It also interferes with your ennunciation, which makes the lyrics hard to pick out. I like the idea of running against the handbook idea and advocate for free thinking and experimentation, but it was hard for the idea to come across. More shadows, more counter challenges!

this is a pretty classic RFA song, but I have heard better songs from you. The lyrics are pretty vague and pithy in an off putting, transcendentalist kinds of way. The change up of chorus lyrics feels superfluous. I like your use of typewriter sounds.