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Originally Posted by Europa Gluten Free
Production is awful. Too many late nights for Jimbo and Eringa putting strings on everything.
It's too bright and too loud.
It's too long. And songs are cack as well.
All things considered, I'd argue strongly that it is their worst album.
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Agreed. I thought: god damn, have the guys gone deaf or something? This sometimes happens to musicians later down the line. The sound gets to so incomprehensably shit... I can only explain why James' Girl At The End Of The World sounds so thin, or why Eminem's new LP sounds like it's playing in a can w the volume turned up to 10.000 with the artists hearing loss.
PFAYM was unbelievably badly produced. The worst sounding album of their career, worse than Generation Terrorists. No sense of space, not a single interesting sound. Really muddy and uninterestingly warm. Horrible textureless guitars. To go from Lifeblood to this in 6 years sounded like a medical emergency to me, honestly.
I was so relieved with RTF, to hear that they still have their ears. I think Sean has taken over some of the production duties, actually. He's become an absolutely tremendous and unsung electronic engineer. The little soundscapes he's crafted since that horrid failure of PFAYM are precious and beautiful: Dreaming A City, Tokyo Skyline, the tape effects in Let's Go To War which he himself seems rightfully proud of etc. These new songs form RIF all have similar soundscapes under the more melodic guitar driven anthemics. They also have horizontal space, clean smooth bass. Listen to the verses in Distant Colours for example.
I don't have towering hopes for the album but I do expect it will be an enjoyable spring listen, like Let The Dancers Inherit The Party from British Sea Power last spring.