Jack Antonoff recording vocals with The 1975 | Sneak Peek

and it's interesting because usually you think so much about vocal treatment but it was so obvious it's like yeah there's not going to be any sauce on that you have to like deliver that dead straight completely dry there's literally no plugins on it so this is Maddie I alwaysed my imination 1073 tube Tech CM7 is what's in the notes you know there's we tried some verbs as you can see then we muted them I like the double because it it it created did this sort of like sometimes I think a double is like equal parts remind me of early Beatles recordings but it also feels extremely modern in a way so almost sometimes a double vocal to me like cuts out this like 80s and 90s of music and it's sort of only before or after and without the double it felt too much like trying to like go for some like Leonard Cohen preachy bit and it's amazing how doubles can do that so it's like you know like it's really all about the lyrics so it's like if you have a lyric it's like the toe bag Chic Baristas Sy on the C theas riding about their ejaculations you know lons like that it's like deliver with a single vocal could almost become self-important but you put the double in I like I like coffe full of milk and it almost reads to me as like there's like a humor in it and this is a huge thing that I think is so important when recording vocals is like it's not like the vocal is the vocal and the performance is the performance the treatment of the vocal interacts with the lyric in in a massive way so in the most obvious sense like if something is the voice of God maybe it should re be Reverb if something's whispered into you into your ear maybe it should be dry those are like the most basic terms you know if something is said from someone screaming on the street maybe it's coming from over there but it gets even deeper than that which is like and any artist who ever records their own vocal knows this feeling where like you might sing a take and you're like I feel like a idiot and then you might double the take or octave the take or do something like that and proof it makes total sense and the areas in which you felt naked now feel like you have this Army of Two of yourself and that is what this double very subtly does when matd saying V toic sitting on their communist Keers writing about their ejaculations one person saying that I'm like off bro two people are saying that I'm like I'm listening and that was the delicate balance of this whole song very seriously recorded very seriously played the lyrics are are brilliant and very serious they're also hilarious