Critique Crime Six Nine's first album!

[DiscoBBQ]

Hey everyone,

For most of you who have no idea, me and two friends have a rap/pop/club group.
We just finished our first album for digital distribution.

You can listen and check it out for free here: http://crimesixnine.bandcamp.com/

Lemme know what you think, Thanks!

 

[VomitHatSteve]

This isn't a genre I listen to prety much ever, but here's my thoughts.

The rapping sounds very "white" kind of like a couple of hipsters who realize that they're not very credible rappers doing it ironically. It might be an over-enunciation thing.
Also, the rappers fall behind the beat a lot.

The vox are a little buried in the mix.

The beats are pretty cool though.

 

[Greg_L]

Lol. Is this for real?

 

[Atom Bomb]

I'm with steve....

I liek the beats. They work. Catchy as hell.

You guys need to come up with something a bit more grasping with your vocals. they are kind of just too plain. Stripped down.

I hate to say it but there needs to be something to grasp my attention to the vocals. I don't even know what's being said casue i don't really wanna listen to it... you know.


But your beats are great guys. I'm impressed.


Swag Sailing intro was fucking Hilarious. haha.

 

[DiscoBBQ]

I agree, it's hard working with two other people though who won't listen to reason and try anything else. One member just wants to do all singy autotune crap and the other just wants straight gangster-type rap.

The vocals fall behind alot, because our mic has a 50ms ping, and we found that out halfway through a bunch of partial-mix's and we didn't remember what exactly we compensated for and what we didn't.

Too bad they don't let us try anything like call and response verses, duets, parallism, etc.

Though as for white hipsters, none of us listen to rap. We prefer post-hardcore music but made this album to kill some time in our senior year of highschool.

 

[Atom Bomb]

. We prefer post-hardcore .

Go back to it.


Not knocking this stuff at all. I dabble in some very dark insturmental trip hop shit. But my roots are in punk stuff. The trip hop or whatever it fucking sucks by the genere's standards and i seriosuly doubt i would ever put it up on here but irregardless it is an outlet for another side of me creatively.

So i get it.

Its good to expand for sure and really its good for you on the whole to try other things casue you can bring elements from one to the other.

But your auto tune and gangster guy need to open their minds a bit. It's over done.



One thing i forgot to mention about your mixes was the vocals actually sounded cheap. Flat. Like they were recorded with a 8 dollar mic from Walmart.

Small room acoustics and stuff too.

I am not sure if you could tweak it in your mixes to get that fullness back or not with out re-tracking them?

You guys should throw up some of your post-hardcore or whatever it is for a us to listen to.

 

[VomitHatSteve]

Though as for white hipsters, none of us listen to rap. We prefer post-hardcore music but made this album to kill some time in our senior year of highschool.

Shoot! Throw some hip-hop/dance beats and synths into the background of your post-hardcore. That's what all the cool metalcore bands are doing these days. (I'm not being facetious, I'm a big fan of metal with the drum machines and dance beats.)