So I've recorded a lo-fi album

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In the past 3 months I was recording this little thing in my bedroom. Was planning on putting 15 songs, but after 12 made I thought "well, that's enough" and here it is. All instruments and vocals by me.
Loner Awdur
Any feedback is apreciated.
Thanks.
 
Well, that was enjoyable besides the background noise that's always there.
I think you could use some structuring in your songs.
Just to experiment try a few cookie cutter songs. (Intro, Verse, Chorus, Verse, Chorus, Peak, Verse Chorus, outro chord) Then a more complex pattern could include bridges, or playing half the chorus the first time, a pre-chorus that also surprisingly leads into a breakdown or slowdown.
It just sounds a little like disorganized jamming to me. You tried to do some reverse which is an acceptable technique but, idk it wasn't right considering how empty it felt. (add reverb to reverse elements, fills up the space)
I suggest you listen to Agalloch. Now, they differ from you in that they have a drumkit and powerchord metal guitars, and a singer that occasionally tries to impersonate a demon.
But they also stretch stuff out and still sound good and have these ambient vocals like you do, and have this forest acoustic guitar sound to them. Listen to "Not Unlike The Waves" and maybe you'll find some other stuff by them you'll like and learn from. And up your sound quality dude, seriously. Lo Fi?
I did enjoy listening to this while studying, it was nice and calm.
 
To be honest, I don't really like song patterns, although there's a few of my songs that follow a pattern. For me, they limit the composition.
The reverses are something I "extracted" from John Frusciante's songs. I'll remember to give them a bit of reverb.
And well, yes, lo-fi. By definition, "it's any kind of sound recordings with lower quality than the usual, either degrading the quality of the recorded audio, or using certain equipment". And in my case, the tools I use to record are a notebook and a desktop mic of something like 10 bucks, which are the reasons of the background noise.
Thanks for your advices, I'll try to use them to improve my next works.
 
I liked the album. It was relaxing and creative.
I agree with you about song patterns- there's no need to use them all of the time. The backwards parts could use a little reverb, I agree with the above.
But overall this was a great album. It really stretches the barriers of what is considered conventional. Great work
 
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