Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday...

[Monkey Bones]

McLusky's last CD is also an Albini production and it is one of the most compressed CDs I've ever heard. Guess Steve really only cares about vinyl just like the disclaimer for At Action Park says ("There is, in fact, nothing special at all about the manufacture of this compact disc").

He probably just doesn't care that much about McLusky

The Electrelane CDs sound great. They were mastered by Steve Rooke at Abbey Road, as was the Albini engineered Valina CD that I also got recently (and also as are those great sounding recent Nina Nastasia CDs too). But I don't think he's against using compression for some types of music. And it's true that some of them get screwed up after he's done. He did an album for Edith Frost a couple years ago called Wonder Wonder that I really like, and apparently used a very complex mic setup to capture lots of ambience and it does sound like a great recording, but the CD is punched up some with compression. Not sure why that happened, but I'd be surprised if it was his wishes to add the compression after going to all that trouble with the engineering. Not really bad though. Mark has the vinyl and it might be less compressed. She's a big vinyl fan. Ya never know who's really responsible for the final sound unless the artist and engineer and mastering people talk about it, which doesn't often happen.