6/25/09

interesting album production process, by Fishboy for new album "Nom"

Dallas - DC9 At Night - Fishboy Preps New Release, Nom, Which, Actually, Kinda Is and Kinda Isn't A Fishboy Release At All?: "The plan for the band's upcoming EP, Nom...The concept's pretty cool: (front man) Michener recorded all nine of the disc's tracks fairly basically--just tracking his vocals and some acoustic guitar strums--and passed the disc along to The On Nom Noms (Denton producers Howard Draper and Mark Sonnabaum) to fill in the rest, completely devoid of his own input. The results? Some pretty great stuff, including the tracks 'Larger Than Before' and 'Tired Tired,' which find Michener's nasally voice coupled with ambient pianos, cymbals and some faint choir singing--basically a far cry from (and fittingly, larger than) any previous Fishboy tracks. Another standout? The song 'Accidents,' which is more driving than most Fishboy tracks normally dare try to be."

1 comments:

Alex said...

the band Psycho and the Birds operates this way. Robert Pollard (guided by voices) records some acoustic songs, and hands it off to GBV producer Todd Tobias (circus devils), and he adds other instruments/produces the shit out of it.