I love the lyrics. It’s always metal! Strange ending. It seems like it really wanted an extensive ending guitar solo with much tapping. This is weird in the best way. This is clearly lyrics trying to cram into music. The music and the lyrics don’t give with each other. They’re both stubborn and ultimately sound like they’re fighting. Anyway, this has its charms and I enjoy it!

You are an increasingly frustrating prospect, as the progressions and guitar riffs you've served up here get my mouth watering for a C86 New Wave anthem that so many of the more proficient musicians here seem either incapable of, or uninterested in, delivering. It may all be MIDI but that opening guitar and bass line evoke equal parts Stone Roses and Joy Division, with a suitable drenching in reverb that creates a great atmosphere in the track. I know you know your vocals aren't great so it seems pointless covering old ground, but I am tempted to rip off your music here to see if I can take this in the direction I want it to go; i.e. epic sing-along choruses and wistful harmonies. Still, the positives here are easily enough to lift you above much of the dross in this round.