Music: OneWordOnly (4 Reviews in 1 Post)

"Alex, where have you been?" is what I think some of you are wondering right now. After all, I did say that I'd be posting 2 reviews per week, and I clearly have not been doing that. I'll admit that it's my fault that I haven't been keeping my schedule, and so here's 4 reviews in 1 post. All songs in here are singles by OneWordOnly, who is a great friend of mine, and so here we go. If you're wondering why there are no image-based links, I kept getting pestered by "security notices" from my new antivirus software whenever I tried to copy/paste any images or links onto this post. Looks like I'm going to have to explore the settings. 

Just so everyone knows, these are singles, not albums, which means that each individual review is going to be shorter than my reviews normally are.

Review 1: Flintlock

So, I went on SoundCloud today, and saw that this track was posted yesterday. I clicked the play button, and the humming started. "Unique" is the best word to describe this track. I haven't heard anything like it anywhere else, except for the Jet Set Radio soundtrack, but we don't speak of that. This song is, in my opinion, better than the whole of the JSR soundtrack. While this is not one of my all-time favorite songs (due to the humming that plays for nearly the whole song), I do like it.

Review 2: Crystal Garage

To get it out of the way, I will start by saying that I enjoyed this track only somewhat more than Flintlock. The vocals in the background add an ominous tone to the sense created by the foreground instruments, which is one of time dragging on endlessly. Because of this combination, I'm reminded of the NieR: Automata soundtrack. I may review it, but I don't know yet.

Review 3: Whisper

First few seconds, my ears hurt. Then, the things that didn't make my ears hurt began. For some reason, I feel as if I've heard this before. That reason is most likely that the loops used in this song are also used in many of OWO's other tracks. Regardless, I still found that I liked this track a bit. However, I did not get the sense of a whisper from this song, so I do believe it could've been given a more... appropriate name. 

Review 4: I Had Thoughts

I think this is the first time I've heard piano loops in any of One's songs. In fact, this is the most unique of the four tracks reviewed in this post, and my favorite of the four by far. It's not distracting, which means that I can listen to it as I work on pretty much anything. I'll end it here, since I don't have any other notable comments to make.