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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
I re-listened to that hospitals record. I like it a lot more than I did the first time. It has the worst production I've ever heard on a record, ever, which I guess might attract some people to it but it also makes it a chore to listen to, especially on your first listen. However, this time, I saw through the muck and actually listened to the songs and most of them are really good.
I love lo-fi music but this was so lo-fi as to be ridiculous!
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That's the thing about this
Hairdryer Peace record.....it's a grower on many listeners. It takes you to a completely different mindspace which requires some orientation usually. For a lotta the slackjawed neanderthals on the TermBo board, drugs had to be involved. But since I'm basically part of the "straight-edge" "youth" "of today", my sober view was that it was immediately awesome. Best Hospitals record so far. It's also a beautiful record to behold.....it feels so much like a 70's private press era relic. Mysterious front cover, blank white back cover, and yet he paid good money to print the insert? No band name except on that giant low-grade orange sticker that looked like an afterthought. It's so personal....no label woulda had the guts to put it out. Can you imagine that phonecall? "Adam....You want me to pay a printer to make a really nice insert, but leave the back cover blank?!?!" That's why it had to be self-released, I figure.