another really interesting arrangement, this definitely conjures up that dreamy Air / Zero 7 vibe that you mentioned. In places I find it slightly hard to reconcile that chilled-out vibe with your vocals which are still pretty full-on in places. I really like that shift where you go into the falsetto and the crunchy drums kick in, and you make the rondel sound natural.

This is me, I went round the houses with this. I initially wanted to do a rave track but realised that they are basically one liners and also I have no idea how to do rave music. I was then going to just do an acoustic and vocal track but that sounded crap, Computer Music arrived with some vinyl samples so I went a bit nuts using those samples.

Bit disappointed with my overall levels, it doesn't quite match up to the loudness of other tracks. I never know how much to push the limiter. I figure you can always turn up a quiet track but you can't turn down a distorted over limited track.

I think I met the Rondel challenge, but I never know if I've got it right and I've probably missed something knowing me as I got bored of reading the wikipedia article.

One rondel... well, sort of. That first verse Edit: ABab rhyme scheme kicked you down my rankings a bit. I didn't see where any traditional rondel forms used it. Yes, modern takes of the poetic form are out there. But other artists didn't take this liberty and overcame the restriction with flair. I felt you just skirted it.
That being said, I like your song. I love how it builds. I like your melody and vocal (although I think it reminds me of one of your earlier melodies, possibly pleasant row?) I loved that whispered fourth line, the prosody of it. I really like your song and I'm glad you made it through.

I really like the ambient plinky piano/synth thing. After the third line, you have a lyric notated in your sheet ("nothing at all") that I straight-up can't hear in the recording. Was that on purpose? Like an implied rhyme or something? (Edit: After noticing it's supposed to be there, and listening specifically for it, I finally heard it, but I'm pretty sure I never would have caught that unless I had known to look for it. It's good to have a lyrics thread, but I also think the songs should be able to stand on their own merits too.) Around the same time as that missing fourth line, the acoustic guitar comes in over the swelling synth, and it's super-evocative, but it also reminds me of something in particular that I can't quite place. Maybe a Beck song, something from Sea Change? The vibe works really well here, but I also think it would have benefitted from a more judicious edit of the lyrics. The lines have widely varying lengths, and though your vocal performance sells them, I think you might have had a winner with lyrics that scanned better and had more of an internal melody to them. There's also the fact that you're short on concrete images. "The lies I told were so absurd / yeah, you made the right judgement call." With more time to edit the lyrics, I bet you could have come up with some specific transgression, or a line of dialogue or some action taken in a fight to really make me feel like I know these characters, or can relate to them somehow. Again, your production and vocal performance sell the lyrics really well, but I'm greedy - I want the specifics, the character moments, AND the great performance/production! Also, I noticed belatedly that your rhyme scheme differed slightly from the formal rondel, but I had already turned in my ranks by that point, so it didn't affect your score.