Nicktarist

You seem to emcompass some Andy Mckee, John Mayer, Dave Matthews or whatever the names of all those acoustic college bands and artists out there are. It's not bad at all--not my style of course, so I can't really critique it without bias. Your melody seemed more defined in that second version of Ugly, so you can disregard my comments about sitting down at a piano. (I'd recommend trying it for another song though, especially when you have an interesting scale like the Neapolitan scale written down. They make a song that much more fun to write).

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with either of your tunes. Landfill certainly sounds like it would be better with a full band and a good overdrive pedal, but it's all based on how you feel it flows with the rest of your set.

peace,
-nick

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