The whole point of a vocal harmony group, is to recreate songs using just vocal harmonies, but here those harmonies are so ironed out that you could of just used instruments (they would of sounded more distinct anyway). The textures were so watery and over-produced that you might as well of used many synths. The bass singer had so many effects on him that you might as well of used sub bass and no one would of noticed. I felt that the whole track became more and more pointless as the song continued because of this. What do I mean by that? Well if you slap too many pitch correctives, too many EQ’s, too many Gates and too many general effects onto a vocal track, it’s stops sounding like vocals it sounds like synths. Production wise the song is solid, but in parts I find it’s too good. So my major problem with the track, is that it’s pointless and destined to fade away into obscurity by this time next week. The problem I have with Pentatonix here, is that they aren’t even the first vocal harmony group to sing this track it’s been sung by church choirs much more significantly for years now. He took the track, made it grungy and gloomy and saw the track as much more bitter sweet than it’s original version. The only person with a right to claim this hauntingly-styled version is Jeff Buckley. This track isn’t a sad track, nor is it a Christmas track, nor is it a depressing track, it’s just a song that describes what it’s like to make a song, that’s it! So why have we been given 93204832 interpretations of it as a bleak ballad? It could be such a fun, uplifting track, but everyone concentrates on the downer side of it. So where does the Pentatonix cover lie? Probably in the lower to middle category. I also like three versions of the track, Leonard Cohen’s original, John Cale’s re-imagining and Jeff Buckley’s interpretation. Now do I dislike the original track? No, in fact far from it, it’s probably one of the top ten tracks ever made. Gosh you’re flogging a dead horse covering this track aren’t you? So here we are, Pentatonix are back with the most over-used and over-covered track of all time ‘Hallelujah’.