Hi Tom! Great song - but hoping you haven’t been fleeced yourself!?

I loved the refrain ‘Grifters are we’ - in fact I wanted more of it. Maybe it could be used elsewhere other than verse 1 to develop the song.

I found the band to be on the quiet side compared to the main vocal - as though it was distant while you were up front. I wonder if you could use the main vocal as the benchmark and bring the band levels up while maintaining the clarity of the main vocals? Others might have some better advice on technique of this than I.

There is a section (at the end of the intro before verse vocals start) where the wah wah oscillation of the rhythm guitar is at a different BPM than the tempo, and this has a disorientating effect on the sense of time - but that might be me being OCD. 😳

I have only been on the forum a few months and wasn’t expecting this style from you - so I found it a wonderful surprise from you and an interesting lyrical theme. Well done!

Andrew D

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