[Mix With The Masters] Inside The Track #87 – Metronomy “Love Letters”

After the good success of Metronomy’s third album, British producer and songwriter Joseph Mount felt the necessity to change course. Fascinated by the old-fashioned strategies of the 60s and 70s, he set about creating an all-analog album within the age of the web.

This three-part sequence chronicles the manufacturing strategy of the 2014 single “Love Letters”. Recorded stay on an 8-track tape recorder after which blended straight all the way down to ¼”, this album captures the spirit of the traditional information, however with a refined fashionable contact. Joseph describes how the band used an immaculately restored EMI console, exterior gear and a tape recorder to form their musical course of from scratch. He repeats his steps, arranging the music for a restricted variety of tracks, recreating easy modulation results the laborious manner, and making dangerous tape edits to carry all of it collectively.

As a digital native, Joseph emphasizes the worth of discovering new experiences within the studio and the advantages of taking artistic dangers. When even easy processes change into a problem, something can occur.