Marine Electric, “Restrained Joy” LP

cover - marine electricBrooklyn’s Marine Electric have a nifty idea with their recent full-length, Restrained Joy. They recorded the instruments live, and then recorded the vocals later. It certainly lends the instruments a certain urgency and heft that one can only get from a live setting.

That said, though, there’s a flipside: the vocals seem rather flat in comparison. It sounds good, but the vocals just seem to lack the resonance held by the instruments. You lose the slight echo and reverb that a live room gives you when you step into a booth to sing.
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