It was more like the later Beatles albums where they started to use studio technology.
This was long before the internet and digital studio technology made such things a breeze.
"Over the last year we've added new parts, rerecorded others and generally harnessed studio technology to make a 21st century Pink Floyd album.
Like the Beatles he had grown increasingly intrigued by the possibilities studio technology afforded and bored by performing onstage for fans who only wanted to hear his hits.
And the name seemed so correct for the bluesy, full-of-wonder sweep they conjured from obsolete synths, rudely basic acoustic guitars and crackly old studio technology.
"Over the last year we've added new parts, re-recorded others and generally harnessed studio technology to make a 21st century Pink Floyd album.
She featured prominently on Various Positions (1985), Cohen's most potent album in a decade, and one which saw him consciously embracing state-of-the-art studio technology.
Returning to his home state of Pernambuco in northeast Brazil, Otto quickly became a part of the mangue bit movement, which fused home-grown rhythms like the maracatu, frevo and ciranda with the latest in imported computer and studio technology.
He became a musical auteur, using multitrack studio technology to lend layers of elaboration to songs such as the shimmeringly psychedelic Good Vibrations and the plaintive God Only Knows, lauded by Paul McCartney as the greatest pop song ever written.
Ms. Rodrigues's records are skillfully made, and their effectiveness has partly to do with studio technology: when her voice is captured right, it sounds unearthly, and the lyrics float out like round balloons of sound.
