Aging rock act on new album: This time we wanted to go back to the basics

I love this thread so much, every revive is a gift

I Just Wasn’t Made For This Sacrifice

God Only Knows (How Much He Hates Us All)

Summer Days... And Summer Nights!

(I know that's Megadeth, but it's all I got)

this is only thread adjacent but all the same, Shabaka Hutchings joins the recording without headphones cadre:

So for instance, one of the things that I did was have everyone not use any headphones or separation, and tell everyone that we want to be playing as if it’s the introduction or the outro of any particular song. We want to hold that space. Just to get them into a mold of how they engage together.

https://www.stereogum.com/2258591/shabaka-hutchings-perceive-its-beauty-acknowledge-its-truth/interviews/qa/

The album’s recording process was fully analogue: recorded on tape, mixed on an analogue console and cut directly on to the acetate used to make records.

And 99.9% enjoyed by people listening on laptop speakers through a digital interface

OTM

Geoff Barrow on the new Beak> album, >>>>:

After playing hundreds of gigs and festivals over the years we felt that touring had started to influence our writing to the point we weren’t sure who we were anymore. So we decided to go back to the origins of where we were at on our first album—with zero expectations and just playing together in a room.

Beak to Basics

From the Pitchfork review of the new Godspeed album:

More than any Godspeed record to date, “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD” feels less like a deliberate, intricately structured composition than the natural, intuitive result of friends seated in a room together, hanging on to each other, and finding salvation in the adrenalizing rush of a great riff