YMMV / Miracle of Sound

• Awesome Music: More or less everything he puts out qualifies as brilliant. It's pretty much hit Memetic Mutation in his fan base that he seems physically incapable of putting out a bad song, and even his less popular works have dedicated followings.
• Broken Base: A minor one occurred with the release of "Fires Fade", his first Dark Souls III song. Some fans were put off by the heavier metal emphasis and bombastic orchestral style than was used in "Fires Far", as well as the use of female vocalist Sharm as a duet vocalist. This was mitigated when he released "Forever Flame", which featured solely Gavin's voice and had a much more subdued style that felt like a proper follow-up to "Fires Far". He even stated that, while he did intend to make "Forever Flame" anyway, it was partly for the fans that disliked the direction of "Fires Fade".
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • He has a shared fanbase with Dan Bull, thanks to their getting along well and collaborating on occasion.
  • With Jt Music, for the same reasons as with Dan Bull. It helps that Gav and JT don't really do the same kind of music, so there's little to no rivalry. In fact, rap is about the only genre of music Gavin HASN'T done. though given his ability to perform almost every genre under the sun, it might just be a matter of time.
  • With Jim Sterling and Laura K Buzz, with whom he shares a podcast.
  • Many people were overjoyed when he made a collaboration with Aviators, a Dark Souls song called "Let There Be Fire".
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • "When The Wolves Cry Out," a song about Jon Snow, contains the lines "Reach out to the Unburnt/Flame to cover all." The Unburnt, obviously, referring to Jon approaching Dany for assistance against the White Walkers. Come the end of the series, Dany's "flame" does, indeed, "cover all," in the worst way.
  • Similarly, "Halfman's Song" includes the line "the bells of conscience ring," which lands way differently after the final season.
  • The collaborations with Peyton Parrish on various versions of "Valhalla Calling", after Peyton would proceed to play and plug it in a way that people started crediting him for the song instead of Gavin. This led Gav to take the rare step of making a public statement (after private attempts of solving the issue failed) of asking Peyton to stop.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • His first song for Dark Souls III was titled Fires Fade as a nice thematic name relating to the game's story. Flash forward a few months, and what is the title for that game's Game of The Year Edition? The Fires Fade Edition.
    Gav's Twitter: Nice title you got there, reminds me of a song I heard once :)
  • His star-making song, "Commander Shepard", claims you can fight like a krogan and run like a leopard, but you'll never be better than Commander Shepard. The general reaction to Mass Effect: Andromeda was that it was a step down from the original trilogy, meaning Pathfinder Ryder really couldn't be better than Commander Shepard.
  • "Mother of Flame" contains the lyrics "winter will cry out my name". In season 7, Daenerys has a love scene with Jon Snow, the character who represents the "ice" in "A Song of Ice and Fire". The line takes on a whole new meaning after that.
  • City of Night, made 6 years before the game was definitely announced and given a release date, contains the "soft screams of the Rockerboys are echoing through my head" as a reference to the in-universe Rockerboys movement. Flash-forward to the game's release, and the Rockerboy himself, Johnny Silverhand, is literally inside the player's head.
  • His Assassin's Creed III song, Blood of the Creed, was divisive at the time for the seemingly odd match-up of rapping with the American Revolution. Come Hamilton three years later and the match-up of rapping and the Revolution proved to be actually ahead of its time.
• Narm Charm: Gav's howl in "Wake the White Wolf" is honestly pretty ridiculous... But that doesn't stop it from being awesome.
• Refrain from Assuming: While the titles of Gav's songs will frequently appear in the lyrics, its not always in the refrain.
  • His Mad Max: Fury Road song isn't "Off The Course," or "Guns And Gas And Gods," or "Seeds of Redemption," or "Fury Under The Hood," or "Release The Rage." It's "Road Rage," which is a line in the first verse.
  • His Witcher 3 Ciri song is not "White Skies," but "Lady of Worlds."
  • The title of his Prey (2017) song is not "I Fall Outside Of Myself" or "I'm Not Myself" or "I'm Not Somebody Else," but "Replica," which is only in the final lines of the song.
  • "A Dog's Life," inspired by The Wolf Among Us, is named for a line linked to the refrain, but not technically part of it.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Some people reacted negatively to the re-release of "Shadow of the Ash", which had updated vocals. Gavin pointed out that this was slightly silly, since the original version was still very much available and he had no plans to get rid of it.
• Tough Act to Follow: The New Black Gold is regarded by many to be Gav's crowning jewel, so this reaction is an inevitability when talking about The Natural Heart. For what it's worth, Gav has gone on record stating that he doesn't want to try and ape off of The New Black Gold by copying it, but wanted The Natural Heart to feel like an evolution of TNBG.

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