Tender Age

“The problem with recording is always that the live energy and the ‘vibe’ that a live performance creates, gets squashed and sucked dry until you’re left with some barely recognizable artifact. It’s like translating something into Japanese and back into English: something gets lost.”

But this time, we just all set up in the big room and let it fly. I even did some vocals live. So the guitar, bass, drums, keys, etc. all share the same air, bleed into each other, and sound like a band playing together. Some instruments had to be overdubbed just because they’re too quiet to be picked up in a room with all that racket going on – vibraphone and violin mostly.