The instrumentation buildup is fantastic. Once the singing starts, I get serious Smiths vibes. Never heard the word “Anesthetized” in a song before. Your vocals are bit too soft, and yes this is the pot calling the kettle black. I wish I could hear your voice louder relative to the music.

I like it when you go for a jangly guitar sound and there's some good examples of that in here. The bit where the distorted guitar squeals into focus is really great, too. The vocals are good but the melody doesn't really stick with me for some reason, same with the lyrics - they look good on paper but don’t get into my head when I’m listening.

I think we should have asked people to name the target of these diss tracks. Like a number of others this round the lack of context I’m given takes away from the enjoyment. The mood you set isn’t what I’d expect from a diss track, but I think you make it work. The ending sounds too muffled & gets hard to make out the lyrics. I mean I was reading along so I didn’t have an issue, but I imagine I would have without the lyrics.

All the instruments sound great, love that bass! and the funky guitars! and the percussion! (so much vibraslap!) "Listen to the rain fall..." has a wonderful melody, but I liked it more than the actual "pump the brakes" chorus. I appreciated the explanation of what the track was about as I had a bunch of half-baked theories about Charlie Sheen and Trump and Reagan. You have some wonderful-sounding turns of phrase in the lyrics, like "phlegmatic sheen," "almost anesthetized," "Show off your bling-bling, there goes a Persian king/but to me he's just a peasant" but I thought the rhymes for "brake" seemed a bit too obvious. (I say this having put the exact same "mistake" rhyme in our song too, so pot, kettle, etc; but I think repeating it so many times pushes it to the forefront.) Some good disses in here.