Pro recorded demo

[Strat Man]

New demo tracked in a professional over a couple of days. We should be going back in in a month or so to redo the whole thing for radio. Comments of the song in particular as well as performance, arrangement, mix, tonality etc all very welcome.

Quell:
http://media.putfile.com/Quell

Lyrics:
Quell
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Kept you up, seared and braised
Drop your eyelids and close the day
Bored but tired and too much on your mind to relax and just drift away

You should have known
My motivation was to quell your fears

Drop your pills, shake in your hand, steady not but not firm
Little grasp on the world would do you well
Subtle touch hardly felt like anything was ever real to you

You should have known, should have known by now
My motivation was to quell your fears
You should have known, you should have shown, you should have shown me how
The uncertainty is real

Stay up, sit straight, face up to reality
Oh, its not what you thought, no, not what you could've dreamed of
Dream on

You should have known, should have known by now
My motivation was to quell your fears
You should have known, you should have shown, you should have shown me how
The uncertainty is real

 

[drewz0r]

sounds great to me!

 

[ecktronic]

Sounds real nice.
The vocals dont sit as well as they could, but thats my only quam.
Good recordings, and not bad song.

Eck

 

[Guitarer]

Sounds great! Although it seems like the singer is struggling to hit certain notes when the chorus first starts...

 

[Jouni]

Yup, that was clean and good.
Ripped it from temp.internet files to my "earrest"-folder, to rest ears between mixing.
I didn't hear anything wrong, in the vocals or otherwise. nice song.

 

[blkdog7]

Man, I really liked it, a lot. And I hate everything people post on here. Reminds me of Snow Patrol or something. Can't put my finger on it. It starts out really slow, though. Maybe that intro with the toms can be shortened a bit. I wish it kicked in sooner. I'd love to hear less toms and more vocals during that intro. It would be a bit more engaging and personal.

 

[imotic]

i liked it. this might be pretty standard to do, but i really liked the panning on the toms. i was kind of losing interest in the intro, and the chorus brought me back in, but you might want to experiment with upping the bpm a notch or so to keep that interest up. i think i'd agree with a few of the other comments people have made about the vocals, but it didn't bother me.