This one is very fun. This is a composition that could have run the risk of sounding cheesy, but you sell it well. The a capella section is top notch. I like the slow-down at the end.

Like Mandibles, the sense of "having fun with the challenge" comes across in a big way here. Excellent retro rock 'n' roll with the layered harmonies sounding great. On the whole I would say I'm not really a harmonica fan generally (too many associations with earnest Dylan folkies I guess) but it sounds superb here and fits the song so well. The a cappella section works excellently. I had some issues with the mix again but to be honest it works for the style, the retro vibe might suffer with more polish.

Compared to FBF and Moss Palace, this song lacks bass, and has a lot more cut. I like the echo on the voice when you drop it in. The mix is a little muddy even as the bass lacks punch, which is something you might want to look at. I like the humor of this song, that’s its strong point, really well written as usual, lyrically. To me, the feel of the groove is a little overly frenetic, it could probably relax just a little and sit in the pocket a little better, or maybe it’s just a question of how the drums sit back in the mix a bit relative to all the vocals—I’d like a stronger pulse. I think the bass playing does get a bit messy in parts and could be sharper on the grid. Similar take on the a cappella section to Frank’s with those Beach Boy inspired woo-ooos, but the rhythm gets a little off by the end to my ear. The halftime ending is cool, lots of great ideas crammed into this song.

This was ultra-dorky but catchy, bouncy, and enjoyable, and was lyrically much more of the type of song I expected to emerge from this prompt than Frankie’s--nothing wrong with that, but it was a little less interesting to me as a lyrical take. I love obscure monsters as much as the next girl (probably more, actually) and I was pleased to have to click through in your lyrics to find out what a cadejo was--I don’t get to learn about a new monster every day. Although Ben recommended a podcast to me with hundreds of episodes that’s all about different monsters, so I guess if I listened to that more regularly, I probably could. Anyway, I digress. I like the harmonica, the mix seems a bit rough but not to the point where it particularly bothered me, the a cappella stuff fits in perfectly style-wise in this song and it’s just a lot of goofy fun. Musically, it feels like a pastiche, it’s not super interesting to me, but it does what it set out to do just fine. (By the way, you asked in the LP about the bit at the end, I definitely could not make out that “Puttin’ on the Ritz” part without looking at the lyrics and listening for it specifically.) I don’t think you entirely sold me on the lyrical idea; the big list of random misunderstood monsters doesn’t have a lot of repeat listening value for me, and the part linked directly to the title seemed weak… this is nitpicky, but I don’t quite get what you’re going for with the vampires, and if you’d asked me what this was called I would have guessed “A Million Monsters.”