Great implementation of the challenge. I like your lyric and the angle you took very much. I’m liking the mando a lot. The bass is solid. Your melody is good. The arrangement is good. Just as the song started to feel a bit same sounding, you dialed it back and gave us a tasty instrumental section. But maybe that’s not enough to completely overcome that same sounding feel compared to some of the other entries. Overall, I feel this is a solid entry in another good round of songs.

SWEET!
This lyric is one of the best this year. A deep dive into the decline of lighthouses. The dark cove was simply a result, a symptom of how society is changing. Claps and snaps are core within the mando, and that subtle fuzz guitar way back there is so warm.
“Is GPS and satellite the only thing to trust?” Really stood out for me.
This is outstanding songwriting. Sorry to see you leave.

Not only was my dad a big lighthouse fan, but we canoed thousands of miles together, including the St John and Allagash rivers in Maine, the Yukon and Saskatchewan rivers in Canada, backwater lakes and swamps in Minnesota, Georgia and Florida. The culture in these isolated places is heavy and the dissonance when they’re hit with modern technologies is intense.

The distorted guitar should be a lot higher in the mix. It's sort of just background noise. I like your take on the title. I think you've got a good song here but the presentation feels like a very rough demo. The super repetitive drums get grating after a while. I think it really needs some backing vocals, like "the band" singing along or responding as a group etc. Very fine mando/banjo/etc playing.