Chris Coady spent a few weeks last month producing the new album for the Delta Spirit at Dreamland in upstate New York. After a short break for the band to play a few shows, they will be reconvening here in New York City to wrap things up. Here is an Instagram photo taken by the band of Chris at the board:
Way back in December of 2010, Chris Coady mixed the new Mates of State LP at Soundtracks here in New York. The album now finally has a title (Mountaintops), a label (Barsuk) and a release date (September 13th). Click thru to the Consequence of Sound story here to see the tracklist.
I haven’t heard it yet (ahem… Chris… Polsia…:) but apparently Pitchfork has, and they actually reviewed it 5 days before its release date. They don’t do that very often. It’s a really good review, and anything that is described as sounding like Depeche Mode will probably be right up my alley. Can’t wait to get it! Read the review here.
Eye Contact, the new Gang Gang Dance album recorded by Chris Coady, got a Best New Music from Pitchfork last week! Check out the full review here.
Almost exactly a year ago, Chris Coady began recording the new Gang Gang Dance LP at Dreamland in upstate New York. Now you can stream the whole darn thing over at Pitchfork. Check it out here.
Check out this great short film about Smith Westerns. Lots of footage of Chris Coady recording the band at Water Music in Hoboken, NJ and mixing the record at the Carriage House in Connecticut. Click below for the video.
If my iCal is to be believed, Chris Coady recorded the new Gang Gang Dance LP “Eye Contact” between May 7th and June 3rd, 2010. The first three weeks were at Dreamland studios upstate and the last week was at DNA here in New York. Almost a year later, we can all now listen to the album. Head over here to Pitchfork to listen & watch a video for the song “Mindkilla”.
Interesting half-page story in the latest issue of SPIN discussing indie bands stepping up and recording with professional producers. The story mentions Beach House working with our Chris Coady, but the focus of the story is The Pains of Being Pure at Heart working with Flood, Alan Moulder and (strangely unmentioned) James Brown. They manage to misidentify James as Flood in the photo caption and misspell the name of the Pains bass player – it’s Alex “Naidus”, not “Naigus”. Click on the photo below to enlarge and read the full story.
In other news, SPIN has an opening for a fact checker…
Great interview with Chris in The Washington Post yesterday about making indie-rock records in general and the Smith Westerns album specifically. Totally worth the read – click here to check it out.
Chris Coady spent last May in upstate New York engineering the new Gang Gang Dance album. I hadn’t heard any of the music and had actually forgotten about it altogether until Pitchfork gave the track “Glass Jar” a Best New Music yesterday. Please head over here to listen to a stream of the song – it’s quite beautiful and is doing wonders for my hangover.
