Re: their last album from 2020, but an interesting read: “At this point, you might be expecting the customary engineer’s ode to a talismanic, 32-channel studio centrepiece. Well, at Blank, there isn’t one. “We haven’t got a console at the studio,” Sam tells me. So, everything is about preamp selection; picking preamps for sources. Over the past 12 years, as a group of engineers, we have had to go from zero. Like, we got five grand off the council in 2008 as part of a business development grant. And that’s been it, really. But what that’s done is forced our hands to understand every bit of equipment that we add to the setup.”
This is pretty good! Discovered a new band, thanks
I had a lot of fun listening to this when it released and ultimately I rated it 7/10 aka “very good.”
Not a notch below 8 for me
If it helps, of the over 1050+ releases I’ve rated I’ve only ever given four albums a perfect 10/10 score. 84 9s, 239 8s, 345 7s, 253 6s, 91 5s, 41 4s, and 6 3s (don’t see much point is wasting my time on anything less enjoyable than that), so while I stand by my rating I think it’s worth noting that my 7s are probably comparable to a lot of people’s 8s.
