Wow, I am so incredibly appreciative of your close listening and the time you spent to craft this feedback. I really like the comparisons you make as you did hit on some of my more explicit influences. I appreciate your nitpicking as I am also critical of my own work as a composer as well and I want to hear how I can improve! The breath sound in particular was a recording of myself and for the life of me I couldn’t get my inhale to not sound like an exhale. I had spent too much time on it so you heard what I eventually had to leave it as, but trust me that it was the best of about 40 different attempts! Thank you so much for listening and for your thoughts!