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After spending a good Month on what felt like the longest I had spent on an album at that time, on the absolute milestone that was the Mzmr album, I decided to take a step back and take a more Lyup-exclusive experimental approach again. Basically I wanted to screw around and find out like I always used to before Mzmr. A lot of my experiments were based on what I didn't know rather than what I did. Which, to be honest, results in an album that just... it's bad. But not like the bad kind of bad. Just like, it's a "you're doing so well until you did that one thing that you absolutely did not need to do, buddy" type of bad. It's like when you're telling a bunch of funny jokes until you decide to make one more joke that everybody just hates so much they stop laughing, get dead serious, and just look at you. This is what this album is like.
But also this album has some of the best art I've ever done for an album especially at this point in time. On Youtube, it has a nice blue background with the guy on the moon, looking at the stars. It's really good looking actually, and it goes great with the black background with all the cutesy white clutter on it. The streaming service background is alright but it's not really spectacular, but it's okay. It actually originates from one of the countdown teasers that I made for the album's release date.
This starts off on the peaceful synth track "Drifting into Daydream." It's ambience. It sounds pretty much just like minecraft music. Nothing notable other than it definitely turned people away from the album when I first showed them because it's slow. But it's definitely a tone setter.
It transitions straight into "Unhinged Nightmare" which is a mathy metal song with punky drums and daydream synths in the background. It actually sounds pretty good. But it also just sounds straight out of Mzmr. This song probably did the least experimenting, but that's probably for its own good.
The third track has a jazzy brass synth with off beat piano. It's now occuring to me that this song's actually kinda trash. It also has static in the background which was made by distorting the song "Mezmer" by Pinkly Smooth to the point where it becomes static. You can kinda hear it in the background and at points you can hear the Rev's voice poking out all reverby too. I thought it was cool. The static is supposed to be crackly like a campfire but to be honest it's just annoying. Not really much to say about this track.
Track 4 is titled after the fact that I sampled pinkly smooth in the previous track and interpolated it in the next track. These were just meant to be little nods to the band I used to enjoy so much, not actual plagiarism, but I just thought it was funny. Decent song, it doesn't do anything annoying but nothing noteworthy either. That dissonance is cool though towards the end.
Jimmy Jones the Third Fifth Guy has some really cool piano and guitar parts that go really well together. And then it just fucks itself up. But it's good though now actually. Okay that sudden transition is awes- never mind I just did that. Why? You can see why I dislike this album, I do something that goes hard, and then I just mess it up with no real good reason.
The vocoded and distorted drums in drumbeat are really cool. This is one of the few experiments that are actually really awesome. This song is only 1:31 though. And I mean, I guess it makes sense because this couldn't really go on longer without getting stale. But it does get really good at a part.
Gecko's actually really good because it's difficult (no lemme correct myself, impossible unless your explicit goal is) to make a bad song in beepbox. It's nice, bouncy, has really good drums, nice bends, and it has a nice futuristic style. The drum solo at the end is still really cool too even though it breaks the flow of the song. Probably the best song on the album.
Gambler’s Loss (don't you dare make a cad reference) is one of the very, very, very few songs that does the simultaneous mismatched melodies really well. It has really good piano and guitar parts because gambling. If only a certain penguin learned from this guy's mistake...
Piano Paint is one of the prime examples of why this album sucks. It does random stuff without good transitions. Sometimes there are good transitions and they sound good, but sometimes things just change without a transition and it's just awful. It sounds wrong... because it IS!!
AerOdYNamIC stresses me the fuck out. half-decent piano piece with random effects that honestly shouldn't be there. Some of them work well, others make it just so much worse.
TARGET PRACTICE YESSS!!!! THIS ONE IS AMAZING!!!!!!!! Literally THE best song on the album. it uses the nylon guitar and the toms to create a REALLY cool effect. At the end there's an abrupt piano addition but it sounds good because it doesn't conflict with the song and it comes in at a good time.
City of City is one of my least favorite titles just because of how uncreative it is. This is definitely one of the absolute better ones on this album though. Its only experiment is a reverse china which makes the drum beat so much better, and the random piano keys in the middle which actually sound kinda good in the song.
Track 13 is a song that I wrote the main riff for just fucking around on the accoustic guitar playing open notes... but I'm pretty sure I messed up one of the notes wrong entirely. Pretty cool song, really Muse-esque even though this is long before I got really into Muse. Then at 1:25 it makes yet another abrupt transition. It sounds pretty okay though so it's not as agregious. And then the part when it plays that little lick over the normal riff is really cool after. The part after that makes me less violent towards that lick being in there. Repitition legitimizes. This was the second to last song because I thought it was the best at the time. I no longer think that's the case but it's definitely still good. A little long though.
Last Call thank FUCK the album's finally over WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I'm glad it's a short album. It starts off with the original dream synths until it does the really sharp sudden notes that are actually really cool. And then the drums start to sound all reverby. This is actually really, and I mean really cool to be honest. Sounds like something I later did in Apocalypse Weekend. The mario 64-esque dream piano is really good in this case. I don't even mind the background piano it's kind of fitting... and then the chords come in randomly, but to be honest the repetition makes it work. The outro is really nice and sweet, even though I had no clue how to write a solo at that time. Pretty good ending. To be honest it's better than I remember but the last time I listened to Dreamings I was listening to all my albums from 2023 so yea I think I kinda wanted it to be over already.
Overall... bad album I have to say, not even really a fun listen, more of a frustrating "That was so good why the actual fuck did you mess it up? You didn't have to do that why did you do that? Bozo?" sort of album. These songs were all really good until I messed them up. Some of them were still really good though, so yea.
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