Who pays for what? You seem quite angry about the payment arrangement, that's for sure. Not bad, in a PJ Harvey 4 track demos way. Nice solo. However, i really cant hear how you meet the challenge, or tried. Might be just these overtaxed ears.

Yes, these vox are tough! Makes me think of a bar in the daytime, I don't know why. Like you'd go in there and this band would be playing a matinee. Whoa, ripping guitar solo! I'm putting a couple bucks in the tip jar.

This song kind of washes over me. It’s really good, but it took a few listens for any of it to stick in my head at all. There are maybe a few spots where I’d adjust the scansion of the lyrics (“drink but don’t drown” is one spot that comes to mind; it feels like it’s missing a syllable or something). I think this would be more memorable for me if a bunch of the end was cut so that it’s shorter and snappier.

One thing I've said about Moss Palace/Merisan songs in the past is that I usually feel like Erin's voice is a little restrained. You're really skilled at writing to the voice you have, but for me, your songs have usually succeeded in proportion to how well the song serves Erin's vocal style. Well, that's out the window today - this vocal performance is an all-out belter, and a really successful trip outside your comfort zone! I also dig the accents on the guitar work, especially the little stabs in the end. These lyrics are bitter and angry; the vocal sells that emotional core. I like the way the contradictions scan in the second verse. I admit that this is one of those songs where the challenge implementation was either lost on me or pretty weak, so I think you lost a couple ranks due to that.

good song, good vocal performance, but I thought the production was unusually limp for a Moss Palace song - when the muted guitars switch into the bigger chords it feels like the energy drops rather than taking the step up that it needs. Slide solo is fun, overall a worthy round winner but I'd love to hear a mix that explodes into the chorus more effectively. Didn't feel like this one did anything interesting with the challenge, but I know we've already had discussions about how this particular challenge could be interpreted a bunch of different ways.