Is there something odd going on or are all my speakers a bit messed or something?
Loads of it sounds a bit fuzzy in a way I’d assume was down to a poor recording or (if I was playing it on vinyl) dust on the record. But I’m playing it off Spotify.
It’s frustrating because I really like the songs and style but it’s detracting from my enjoyment as it feels less of a production choice and more like a fault.
I had to skip The Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club song, which seems a particular shame as it sounds like Ezra feels that one is particularly special to her.
Am I just an old man yelling at clouds here or do other people hear this and get annoyed by it?
" In producer John Congleton (who also mixed Twelve Nudes ), Furman’s found a collaborator equally interested in pushing conventional rock tropes to their limits. Congleton’s proclivity for raw, distorted recordings can sometimes overwhelm, but Furman meets it with equal intensity."
I know a bunch of people (at the time) found The Woods a really tough S-K album to get into on account of that producer but I reckon the over-amped side really worked there and just made it a hugely loud good listen.
Do you have the vinyl? Just wondering if it is less affected like that as I thought they couldn’t always do the same level of production stuff for analogue masters.
this is interesting - particularly the last few lines
“Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club”:
It is a queer trope to fixate on a pop culture figure or fictional character and pin one’s whole world on their aesthetic and aura. This is what I’ve done with Ally Sheedy’s Alison in The Breakfast Club, a movie I’ve seen dozens of times. I am so attached to her wounded defiance and her combination of joy and fury. I know it’s kind of funny but this might be the most vulnerable thing I’ve ever written.
That’s how a lot of our feelings work in the age of media hyper-exposure: Some of our most emotional moments are filtered through a character, a movie set, a screen. Which may also be the reason for the fuzzy crackling production, here. I like how it sounds like the score for a bad TV movie playing on a bad TV.