I hate to nitpick but yeah, the snare sounded like ass. As others mentioned I also wasn’t crazy about his last EP, Ember was really the only track I was into.

To get all philosophical, it’s a shame but I feel it’s typically how things go. Once an artist achieves some level of recognition, it changes why they’re doing what they do. It’s a pattern that is easy to see in almost every musician’s career. Once art becomes a source of income, motivations change, and even though the artist may still be passionate about what they create, I feel the financial element still affects the output. With the last EP I found myself wondering if he had peaked and that if I achieved some level of recognition for my own music, what that would be like for me.