Steven Hale
1 min readOct 28, 2022

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I'm giving two sets of scores here, one for the music and one for the videos (since both seem to be "official" videos).

I had heard a bit of Gizzard (thanks to Medium) and found this song moving and worthy of repeat listenings. 90

I wasn't familiar with Awaken, but any Christian foundation didn't bother me here. I thought the writing and performance were a little less involving than with Gizzard.: 82

Videos: I thought both were a disservice to the music. In each case, the songs were simple, repetitive structures, which is what most good music does. The videos tried to use visual / narrative complexities to expand the "message" of the songs, but in my view, they were cheap shots.-- a bit l ike using a porn video to enhance a Nickelback track. If you focus on what's happening on screen and stop listening to the music, then the video is no friend. Score for both videos: negative something or other.

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Steven Hale
Steven Hale

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Music: Discovering the lost and forgotten. Politics: Exposing injustice. Screenwriting: Emotional storytelling.

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