04/26/2024
Out everywhere today is an LP I spent a year producing. I’d say this one features all the techniques I’ve been trying to incorporate as a producer but never managed to do in one record, until now. Particularly of note is being flexible and allowing a song to change and transform when new elements are added deep in the production process. To this end I have to thank Houses of Heaven for allowing me to get in there and really rip stuff apart or add elements and for trusting that I wouldn’t steer them down the wrong path. The perfect example of this was when I added new melodies to the choruses of “The End of Me” in response to the melodic direction that Douglas McCarthy came up with. Doug wrote a vocal line that was so different and unique and that elevated the song to a totally different place that I knew if we supported that direction musically, it would hit. And after sampling a loading zone sign being hit with a baseball bat into the Synclavier and coming up with a melodic line on the PPG Wave 2.3 the chorus became what it needed to be. The icing on the cake was doing real tape flanging on Doug’s voice and doing my hardest to emulate that big Tears for Fears tape fl**ge on the drum break. Teamwork does indeed make the dream work. A huge shout out to all involved on this one. Please buy the LP and continue to support excellent independent music.
