Very nice interview over at cokemachineglow.com about making the album with Chris. Read the whole thing here, or just read this snip:
CMG: Chris Coady gets a producer’s credit on this album. Was this the first time that you worked with an outside producer?
AS: Well, he did essentially what Rob Girardi did on the first two records. He just helped us; he’s an engineer and he helped us record and kind of helped us focus the takes and chose which mikes to use. In Chris’s case, he has a ton of experience, and I can see some of the decisions he made that really helped things come across. There were a lot of times when we would do a take, and we had been playing the songs for months and months and months constantly, rehearsing, getting ready to record, and we’d do a take, and we’d be like, “Oh, great! Perfect, no mistakes, great sound,” and he’d be like “I don’t know if the vibe is totally right yet.” He was really good at monitoring that, since we were never used to having the ability to work into the energy of a song, to have the time to do fifteen takes of the guitar. In some cases that first take has all the energy, but in some cases there’s this thing where you work into the song and some other things start happening and you get to another place and the fourteenth take is magical. We’re really lucky to have had the luxury to do that on this album.
