Woah. What's your recording setup? Love the warmth, and the tapey quality (esp. of Closing Walls). Do anything with vox?
My setup is pretty embarrassing, actually, and for this EP it was worse than usual. I ran my guitar into my laptop via a total of three aux cables, one of them cheap and a good seven years old (it actually came from an iDog, whenever they were a thing), the others $2 each and freshly bought. All the adapters I had were fiddly and had to be in a very specific position or they'd generate a whole heap of noise, so I was basically still for the entire recording. So the tapey quality is pretty much just noise from all that. I do stuff with vox occasionally, but my voice isn't so good, so I'm looking at getting a singer in.
Don't knock it, man- sounds awesome. Sometimes a song is defined and improved by its limitations and eccentricities rather than all the fancy shit you might have at your disposal. First group of songs I ever made, I spent hours trying to get the hiss out of the recordings. Now I spend hours trying to get it back in. Go figure.
Yeah, this is true. It would be nice to have a bit more control, though, to be able to take out the hiss where I don't want it. Though putting hiss back in is rather a bitch. There's some stuff with vox on my soundcloud that I'm actually pretty okay with. East Hastings has a really small amount that I think work quite nicely.