Hello again! Another productive day so far---we've only been at it for a little over three hours and we've already finished one song (Fix You) and we're probably about half an hour away from finishing a second (Between the Lines).
I guess this is kind of a shameless plug for the album, but what strikes more and more is that every song ends up being far better than I'd imagined it would be. And I'd already thought our album tracks were very strong, so that's saying a lot. Everything just seems to end up sounding really appealing and exciting---Bill is great at bringing out the energy and motion in our arrangements.
Also, I don't mind making a shameless plug. I'm really excited. That's what I want to talk about.
Emily is making fun of me by writing "blog blog blog blog" on a sticky note on her laptop. I do not know what she's getting at.
Ahhh fun! He just made Rachel LaViola's "wih-nih-nih"s do crazy stuff---they sound really distant and echoey and they're moving back and forth from left to right. And all the while they're going through some kind of distortion.
The above will probably sound pretty normal to members of pop/rock a cappella groups at other schools, but it's still a pretty new thing for us, so you'll have to forgive my giddyness. Our first album to have lots of effects and production on it was our previous album, just two years ago, so we're still basically in uncharted territory. I wonder if Yale will end up going in this direction en masse... I really like how our songs sound this way, so I hope we keep making albums like this.
Alright, about to go to lunch. Two songs finished and it isn't even 1:00 yet. Sweet. Four to go.
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Phraseology and STTS definitely had a lot of effects and production too, particularly given how old they are getting. I always forget that when I think about how groundbreaking MEE was for us.
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