Henry Homesweet:Pocket Monster EP Music Review
Hello and welcome to Filmore Jive! I'm Sir Toasty, and I am about to do my first music review on this blog. Were gonna talk about Chiptune artist Henry Homesweet!
About:
So Henry is this Electronic/Chiptune artist that started his career in England. Since 2005 he has been experimenting with old consoles and handhelds to make this raw waveform sound. This sound is known for its creativity in music as it works with the technical limitations of those past devices, which really makes the Chiptune genre unique. He's peformed at several parties all around the world.
Major Releases:
Pocket Monster EP-(2008)
Palm Trance-(2008)
Enter 5D-(2012)
Today I'm going to talk about Henry's first EP, Pocket Monster.
First Impressions:
Pocket Monster is obviously a reference to Pokemon, as its known as Pocket Monster in Japan. The cover is of 5 hearts, drawn kind of like the one's from Zelda. When I grew up I always thought human hearts looked like that, because its literally seen everywhere...Video Games, Cartoons, Valentines day, etc. But then I took human development and realized the ugly truth of what it REALLY heart looks like...
The Review:
The album consists of only 6 tracks, being 17:54 minutes long and 26.9 MB in size.
1.Jet Set Lets Go!(2:44)- Starts off with this chipmunk-like sound that I can't really understand. It then leads to this extremely happy fast paced beat, and the fastest paced song on the entire EP 9/10
2.Red Sky At Night(4:09)-The longest track on the EP. It consitss of this "Space-Like-Chiptune" sound and a few more chipmunk voices throughout. 9/10
3.Tragic But Magic(3:07)-Consists of this same beat that is heard throughout half of the song, and then it changes up and goes back to the same beat at the end. 8.5/10
4.Summer Smiles(2:10)- Starts off with this slow kind of sound, and then you can hear Mario sound effects such as coin, shooting fireballs, and going down the pipe. When you hear that sound, the song gets more louder and changes beat, but still pretty slow compared to the other songs. Around the end you hear this orchestra type sound. A very good happy song. 9.5/10
5.Laputa(3:36)-Isn't Laputa a fictional location that floats in the sky? The song is composed of these Japanese voices samples and several different Chiptune sounds high pitched overlapping each other. It's a bit more on the slower side. 8.8/10
6.Pocket Monster(2:10)-Pretty fast paced song, makes an excellent closing song to the EP. It consists of several Chiptune sounds that sound pretty complex, and then leads to the sound of rain dropping, just to get even louder and more intense. It then leads to this more slower sound and finished off with this dragon-like sound at the last second. 9.4/10
Conclusions:
Pocket Monster is happy and fast paced, and is one of the best Chiptune EP's out there. Being Henry Homesweet's first EP, this is a very solid work, and is good throughout. The pace in rhythm and the use of voice and game samples work well together, and the pace of how it goes from slow to happy is quite good. On top of that, ITS FREE TO DOWNLOAD! I'll leave the link below. People who love Chiptune will love this album.
Highlights:
4.Summer Smiles
6.Pocket Monster
FINAL SCORE: 9.03
