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Originally Posted by Teddy Ray  The album is horrid content wise.
Hipster shlock, just like spoon, okkervil river, so on and so forth.
theyve jumped the shark. |
Very likely true. But I need to live with the album a while yet before I rip it up.
Arcade Fire seems to embrace retro recording techniques for the sake of retro recording techniques, snubbing the innovations that so many engineers, producers and mad men have worked at for years and years.
In response to the old school vinylists who have posted -- give me a break. Mixing to vinyl is OK if you want something to sound old but it causes signal degradation. If you're into that, you could easily reproduce that effect in the digital domain. You just have to do the proper testing to see what's going on. I'm sure someone could build a "Vinylizer" plug-in no problem.
If I ever have to cut tape again I will probably quit this job and become an electrician. I'm joking but seriously, let's move on already!