One of my favorite artists, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, just released what may be my favorite album from them Push the Sky Away. I was listening to an interview with Cave on the recording of the album and they essentially recorded it in a bit over a week, then began (per usual) to do the various overdubs and layers. Part of the way through this process they reversed course and stripped all of that back out, and released the album as it was initially recorded that first week or so. There is a sense of space and poetry on the album that is really attractive to me, and underscores the crescendos where they occur. I couldn't imagine it being as good with the additional tracking. An amazing record that was well served by heavy editing.we often throw a lot at the songs and then allow someone else to final mix them. They often remove a lot of the layering and peel the song back to it's basics. It's something I couldn't do,
Funny you say that, I just walked downstairs to my studio and got a real pair of headphones and I'm about to listen. I have to do my "expense report" for work, which is mindless work and it will be nice to listen. I wish I could do nothing and listen but that's not in the cards. TPS reports... they're real.
$52.00 -gas, self-traveling $22.00 -lunch, self-traveling ".....I've got a fetus on a leash" $25.00 -printer paper, self-office supplies