My First Post!

Hi! This is Emily, stealing the blog from Max for a quick post. Working with Bill Hare is absolutely amazing. It feels like everything about mixing this album has been the coolest thing ever. But I have to say that one of the most fun parts of the whole process is recording new little background parts for the songs.

For example, we worked on My Moon My Man (featuring the wonderful Rachel LaViola and Lauren Provini, both '12) on Monday. After listening through the breakdown, Bill decided something was missing. So he turned to Max and said "Air guitar." He had Max go into his studio and record his best guitar impression, rock out air guitar dance and all (full disclosure: I laughed A LOT), and that's now layered behind the shoe parts!

While working on Never There on Tuesday (solo: Justin Lowenthal, '11), Bill liked the way the arrangement imitated a dial tone. To amp up the effect, he had me sing a really nasal "eeeeeeeeeeeee," which he then broke up and layered behind the shoe's "bih bih bih" line. And it didn't stop there -- the song has some fun shouting: "Hey!", "Baby!", "You're never there!", etc. So Bill, Max, and I made our own angry crowd by recording ourselves shouting into the microphone. Over and over and over again. SO MUCH FUN! I realized that in high school one of my life goals was to be in a Cake backing shouty section -- mission accomplished!

Today we're going to work on three more songs: Between the Lines, Fix You, and Won't Go Home Without You. We'll let you know how they're coming along!