Those are some sweet guitar arpeggios! Love the whole sound here. "Airlock/despair lock" is brilliant. This reminds me in the best way of Another Girl Another Planet by The Only Ones. Glad to see you're finishing strong and still have fuel in the tank

excellent rhyming and the cleverness of the lyrics is engaging throughout. you have brought ziggy stardust into the post-blur era,

I also admire the opening line. Wonderful setting you describe. Reminds me of the adorable "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strips.

Nice kick in with the guitars, sounds awesome. Then it takes another twist into the verse, works really nicely. The composition is great, awesome sounds. Solid tune!

Very cool song. I love "leave your mark" idea. Very catchy. Very interesting and entertaining to listen to.

Hehehe...this tickled me. Some good guiro action!

Ha...that had me chuckling. It's a fun tune, well put together. I really like the rapid fire delivery of the verse juxtaposed with the stretched out vowels of the chorus. I had to look up what a guiro is. Oh...you must mean a güiro

This had so many cool complexities to evaluate. First the title - very cool clickbait. Made me think of the chromosomes and how men plus women equal danger. Whether that was the point or not. Then there were the different vocal effects that punctuated the difference between chorus and verses nicely and of course added to the robot tech vibe immensely. The music was solid. Finally the lyrics - neat rhymes and effective storytelling! Good collaboration you two.

Totally awesome and quirky with the many different layers and tracks, the nerdy lyrics, and the awesome vocals! My mind also went to genetics but more along the GATTACA lines of human genome manipulation and gene editing embryos. Love so many things about this and enjoy the different elements that come together in a kind of futuristic and a little frightening feel! Awesome!

Fab song with many moving parts that work well together! Love the mix of the various voices (robotic, deep) and the retro synths.

This has an irresistible groove to it. It's also a little unnerving. These twins sound scary. I want to dance....but maybe I should run?

Yeah prog rock! I liked this. Great rhymes and tons of flow. Fast paced but it worked in my opinion. I didn't think anything like a big chorus was missing. Nice one!

Fun track to listen to. The groove really drew me in. Strong vocal delivery in front of a really rockin' sound. Good idea for a lyric, and well done.

The chorus here is actually a good fit instead of going up as expected. This is a neat track, conceptually a cool story and put together well. The arrangement keeps things interesting, good job on the bridge and last verse especially. Cool one!

I like the riff a lot it has such a great energy. Cool sound

This is all kinds of awesome! It's immediate, it's clever, and it has all sorts of cool things going on with the timing and chords. ALL the good things. One of my favourites so far this summer!

the best song i have heard in a while. there was a period between 1993 and 96 when british radio was teeming with cool songs like this. when that scene petered out, i stopped listening to the radio. a flood of songs like this could bring me back into the arms of pop music.

See I was thinking Radiohead. I listened to OK Computer this morning and this is like a synthesis of a few songs from that album. VERY cool thing you have made here. I love that, given that prompt, this is what you've done with it. I love sci-fi songs. I need to put more sci-fi in my songs.

The guitar part is cool, it really drives the song, especially with the breaks. Very powerful, the bridge is also interesting!

This is fantastic. Wonderful lyric - clever and thoughtful - and the music and performance are spot on.
Tom, that driving guitar is excellent. A really fine collab, you two. Good work.

This would be super fun to play, it makes me want to get my guitar out. And that lyric is written well, it's cool. The melody brings it out nicely and the vocal has the perfect delivery to really bring out the character. This is a really well done collaboration.

The keytar brass sounds great - is that what also provided the xylophone sounds? - but you totally left me hanging with no video. This kinda had a classic 60s pop feel to it. Existential crisis and all. A lovely pop song with not an inch of fat on it.

Love this! The rhythm of it is infectious. And the lyrics are right up my street. Can we have keytar brass on everything from now on, please?

Ha, I've always thought "you are here" on maps was a bit existential. Another earwormy catchy winner - you're killing it!

Fun and bouncy, the music provides a swell backdrop for the clever frivolity and poetry of the lyric. Very nice!

This is fantastic and wonderful on every level! Love those hilariously witty and wise lyrics, the great pop chord changes, the synths and backing, and that just-sarcastic-enough vocal---- love it! and its (sadly) truly an anthem for our time! I only wish i had thought of the whole thing first!

great work!

This is top notch, classy pop. It grew on me. I love the 'you’ll find me on'- parts and that chorus following is pretty great. no tomorrow, no hangover... I really like that line.

Nice writing and great approcah to handling all disastres

This is fantastic on all respects! Great use on instrumentation, wonderful driving groove and a situation I think we all can relate that is described so vividly! Wonderful hook! Great song and sound!

The punkiness still comes through loud and clear, and the more "refined" sound of a classical guitar just adds some coiled, subdued tension that works perfectly with the theme. I actually really like the high-energy use of "quieter" instruments. Anyway, there's a tremendous jagged energy and great melodicism to this that makes it a real keeper!

Great and catchy tune with hints of Britpop and pop punk. Love the drony sound of the reed organ (or is that the stylophone)? Lyrics are very clever, particularly "filling my memory with gaps." Could be a lost 80s new wave song!

This was fun, considering it's a detailed examination of my life. Sounds quite a bit like Los Campesinos to me, except 1000x less annoying. I'm really taken with Lorenzo Reed's understated organ work - you should work with him again.

Good sample skillz. It fits the genre perfectly - a very sexy alt-RnB groove. I particularly enjoyed the 'drop' and the reverse samples. I also feel like the lyrics definitely hark back to that enigmatic 80s synthpop era that we all like so much.

Haha! I love it when you write responses to my songs. This is brilliantly put together. I particularly love the stutter.

You are, however, quite wrong about the moon...

Perfection. Great loveable homage to the sun. Fantastic

Found your track through the original on Jaqui's page. Tastefully stolen, and that's what counts. Clever lyric and a clever rebuttal to the sinister moon fallacy.

Great collab, nice groove. Cool story.
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I like a lot of the rhymes, unexpected but work very well. This wouldn't be the easiest lyric to work with even though it is well written. But where I would lack, VV has excelled. This really works well all around.

Great work, guys.
The music has a slight Post Punk feel to it but I can't pin down exactly why...
I'm loving the lyrics, as well - a nice story well told; some great words and phrases there.
Yeah, really well done!

Well - for all your troubles you managed to wrestle them all into a nice wonky soup of lush electronica.

Spookily dreamy! I don't know what the otamatone did to wind you up, but the result is rather beautiful.

the Otomatone comment made me laugh. Also, your liner notes graphic = A+

Honestly, this came out REALLY cool despite the difficulty of using these parts of your musical menagerie--part wistful, part creepy, the slightly-out-of-tune thing helps with the mood. I think I told you I bought a Stylophone Beatbox at a musical rummage sale thing but I still have never used it for anything (the speaker is broken which doesn't help), what a pain in the ass device.

Ah have a couple of those devices lying around in the studio, don't share your hate for the Otamatone, but haven't really tried to use it for anything apart from samples.
Relaxed dreamy vibe to the music, kind of agree with SMs Cold War Spy movie comment, you've managed to wrestle something really nice out of those musical toys/devices.

Woo, very cool instrumental. Everything sounds great together and it makes for a cool airy vibe, the percussion is great, I like the drop a minute or so in and addition of things in the mix as it goes. The guitars sound awesome, in general this is just a super well done track. The low vocals work, I feel it would be better if there multiple layers so it all created a distant tone, if you know what I I mean, but how it is things work very well anyway!

Spacey and airy,cool disssonance . Nice bells

I love the feel of the acoustic with the synth, the rock with the electronic, the sweeter melody with the more rigid lyric. The texture is wonderful. The buried vocal was confusing at first but then worked beautifully by the end.

This is a quirky lil thing isn't it! You sound a bit like Dan Hilton in places vocally. So much going on and yet everything had its own little space. Really nice

Even though the lyrics on paper are really quite funny, those gauzy guitar strums and floaty synths someone give them a odd kind of gravitas. It's really quite a beautiful song. I've never heard a MeeBlip synth before but I like it. What did you use to program the drums?

Back for another listen...I really like this.

Definitely a headphones track. I like the way you buried the vocal - and that the dreamy guitar makes it work as a laid back instrumental even if you weren't paying attention to the background.

Great title, clever lyrics, lovely music. The swirling music and quiet vocals fit the lyrics well. I like that old drum machine sound and the chimes and the overall emotional depth of the music. Enjoyed!

"You look like a thing and I love you" :-). Next time let the computer write the whole song

Brilliant song. So cool and spacey. Very enjoyable listen.
Nadia

Good instrumental it has some beeps and bops and good guitar, like the cymbal sound under it all to. Like that professor verse change-up as well and the queen shower line. The drop of the drums was effective to. Good take on the topic as well, enjoyable track!

Love that classic Yamaha VSS/PSS sound, used it quite often myself. The Volca Beat is a cool little machine, have all the Volcas lying around in the studio, fun and inspiring boxes. This song has a cool post apolyptic retropop feel, the slightly same vibe of Grandaddys Sophtware Slump(sic).

Perfectly crafted pop. I really like the bleeping too!

This one is really great, man Nice arrangement and singing, really cool lyrics too

This tone and mood sounds straight off the end of a Rick and Morty episode, playing while something dramatic or sad is happening. I enjoyed this very much.

Excellent lyrics! Really liked the shower line but it made me feel oddly guilty with how relatable it was. The bleepy breakdown beat of the professor verse reminded me of a smoke alarm, which sounds annoying but was not--worked well with the lyrics. I loved the ominous "something is moving" as well.

re: Checking out the competition. I like yours better than mine. I almost didn't post until after the fight, but screw it.

I like the lyric, the perspective is cool. And the melody works well with the lyric. The first verse and chorus drew me right in.

Nice sound. I like the picked guitar with that swirly pad. Steady groove drives it forward. The lyrics seem to point to different conclusions, leaving it a little open ended for the listener.

With the ringing guitars and semi-abstract but still concrete lyrical imagery, this reminds me of Robyn Hitchcock in the best possible way. Nice job!

Vertigo is no joke. Those asshats just keep climbing higher while you're trying to catch them...

Anyway... very synth heavy stuff! Lovely. The bass is really booming in your face. Mmm... bass..

Fun!! "But then I look down at the ants on the ground
They look like people I know
Oh no, vertigo!" really enjoyed that lyric!

I just love the hell out of this. A wall of sound, intricate lyrics and solid production. Terrific!

Oh man this is so good. It's almost like a lost Sarah Records single. The middle 8 is bloody fab, esp. with that squeaky synth (is that the Minilogue?) Consider yourself watchlisted!

This is so joyful and clever and bright! I'm amazed and a little jealous that you wrote those lyrics in your sleep. I doth tip my hat to you!

"your love is a thermal sending me higher" is such a nice line. I enjoyed the song a lot.

Really invigorating and lush music that evokes the feeling of flying ... vocals are great and touched with whimsy ... the bridge is wonderfully odd, and I love that synth! Very, very nice.