Murmur is a really nice album. Finding their feet in the studio. Pop melodies with broodingly obscure/muffled lyrics. If you're learning about multitrack recording, this is a great test-piece. Variety, clean lines, simple mixing. Also the 33.3 book about this album is not half bad too.
It's that mixture of melodicism which is so wonderful and rare - when I first heard "Shaking Through" years and years ago, I began singing along though I didn't know any of the words, like some earnest variation of the way Dad's the world over hum the passages of song lyrics they're unfamiliar with.
I love those 33 1/3 books. New question - ideal album to write about? I'd say You Am I's Hourly Daily, but that could end up uber-autobiographical.
Murmur is a really nice album. Finding their feet in the studio. Pop melodies with broodingly obscure/muffled lyrics. If you're learning about multitrack recording, this is a great test-piece. Variety, clean lines, simple mixing. Also the 33.3 book about this album is not half bad too.
ReplyDeleteIt's that mixture of melodicism which is so wonderful and rare - when I first heard "Shaking Through" years and years ago, I began singing along though I didn't know any of the words, like some earnest variation of the way Dad's the world over hum the passages of song lyrics they're unfamiliar with.
ReplyDeleteI love those 33 1/3 books. New question - ideal album to write about? I'd say You Am I's Hourly Daily, but that could end up uber-autobiographical.
I meant "it's that mixture of melodicism and obscurity" - - stupid brain....
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