Studio Days 6 & 7

 

Late nights, early mornings, not even enough time to blog. Songs sound great. Here is a video of Archie and Kate playing Balance:

 

Rebuilt the pedalboard too:

 

 

Polarbear is coming tomorrow to lay down our first ever collaboration (we’re not counting Giles’ shaker playing)

 

Studio Day 5

Great day today, lyrics down on half the tracks. Sounding pretty excellent! Charlie came down too.

 

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Apologies for low quality photo’s, we turned the lights off to get the mood going…

 

Mixing caps on tomorrow…

 

March 2010 Studio Day 4!

Overdubs day. Ferry padding across the studio floor bare foot banging a tambourine,Giles on the power shakers, group percussion session, we had it all. It was moving. Here’s a picture montage of Ferry throwing some chains in the air:

 

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Kate’s turn to have a go tomorrow, going to get some nice vocal takes down…

March 2010 Studio Day 3

Finished recording the main bulk of all the tunes today. Overdubs day tomorrow.

 

here’s a little look at the bass trap we made out of a table and some coats. Sounds massive!

 

 

More tomorrow…

March 2010 Studio Day 2

Second day with Rory today, tunes are sounding large. Recorded a mixture of old and new. Very excited by our newest song “Give”

 

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…and possibly trying out a few variations on instrumentation.

 

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Studio is developing a nice, lived in vibe.

 

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