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This Month’s CASH Track: Opiates
Tour Diary - May 2009 - Week Three
Day 15 - Brighton. Billy, Paul and I were separated in the Norwich club last night by the enthusiastic after-show crowd, so we catch up on the night’s activities while running errands in the morning. Well, Billy and I are running errands. We need to buy blank CD’s and band-aids (”plasters”)–the CD’s are for selling at shows, the plasters are for Thumby, my busted thumb which refuses to help me out and just goddamn heal already. (more)
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Opiates
In the studio, you build a song layer by layer: cement to mayonnaise, as it were. You start with the basic structure and develop the feel over a series of sonic events that eventually lead to, well, goo. Whether your goo is a room mic or a reverb, the sheen is not musical, but it holds the track together. When you’ve reached goo point, it’s time to go back to cement and start peeling away layers that serve no purpose.
“Opiates” reached goo point rather quickly, as it seemed determined not to (more)
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