METZ - Sad Pricks

More new-release music! This track opens with miscellaneous electrical noise (as is the theme of the album thus far). It's very fitting with the massive, aggressive and loud sound of this track. I'm finding this track to be like something punk-revisited but adapted with some modern production. It's quite a modern sound in some ways and then very vintage in others. It's loud like a modern record, but the seemingly distant mic'ing of drums and off balance of the vocals seems older.

Distant, angry voices:
I'm actually a big fan of the vocal production on this track. The goal for this track is definitely to create the loudest vibe possible. Hearing the vocal 'strain' to cut through the massive power of the instruments certainly contributes to this. Here's a theory, because most of our ears naturally hone themselves toward the vocal we manage to 'pull them through' the other noise. I would suggest that this idea of fighting to hear the vocal makes the sense of loudness greater.

This is another example of an 'in the room' sounding record. Things don't remain to consistent, the constant fight between sounds for loudness leads to the back beat on the snare being lost in some places and dominant in others. Listening at 1:50 to the buildup, there's something that sounds to me like a performance mistake that has been left in (drum hit and miss). We're not used to hearing stuff like this on modern records so this is pretty interesting to me. I think I like it, it's good to take a break from our overly perfect sounding music and have a bit more fun with the messy side of creativity.