I like the vocal-style of “Stumble”..nice!

The piano in “Canadian Boards” just has a little low cut, compression, and reverb. It’s more or less au natural. It took all of five minutes to record that part, so it’s no big deal to come up with something more appropriate.

I doubt “Stumble” will become a song, but it’s nice to know I could pull off different styles in a pinch. I’m planning to approach my publisher after I finish with the snippets to see if he might be able to place some of them in film/TV. It might be worth a week of my time to tighten up the mixes and flesh out the arrangements a bit.

Canadian Boards sounds like a strong basis for a song as you say but the “jittery” quick changes of some parts make it hard to track when I listen to it. Maybe a little lower pitch or expanded timbre are all that is needed to make the piano sound more classical? Did you alter it much for the snippet? I don’t if it sounds too artificial or what.

Stumble sounds quite different from your usual work. Here the bit of “jitter” beginning about two-thirds of the way in fits naturally with the mood of the piece, I would say. It is an interesting direction to see you take. Cool! It does kind of recall Portishead.

I really like LED dreams. Having everything fade in and out sounds more organic and is a pleasure to listen to. A lot of what I do when I listen to songs is try to track the different elements in my mind like I would examine objects entering or moving around my field of vision (I’m a visual thinker.) Having them fade in makes it seem like they’re getting “closer” if that makes sense, so it feels like a more natural increase to the complexity of the piece.

That last actually reminds me of something. Once, I asked my mother whether she preferred the acoustic style of “Something Beautiful” or the more electronic style of “Life’s Fairytale.” She said she tended to prefer the songs from “Life’s Fairytale” because, as she put it, “There is more going on.”

As for “Canadian Boards”, I think it’s the sound of the piano — sounds more or less like a casio sample than a real piano that makes it sound silly.