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From Pharrell's vocal down, Get Lucky sounded like a record on which no one had even broken sweat while pulling off arguably the hardest trick in rock and pop music: making a new record that somehow sounds instantly familiar, as if it has always existed, a classic that you had temporarily forgotten.
Sumner: I think I wrote it, then immediately after thought, "Iggy would be good for this," because I wrote the poem down, and I had the track in mind for to work against, so I wrote it, and I think that night or the next night I put the guide vocal down in the mode of Iggy Pop.
His brother butts in: "Wasn't that bit when you tried to sing the vocal down a microphone in the market?" Weeks looks to his shoes.
It was NOT intended to be used in the final mix, the idea being that we would re-record the vocal down the line, in a proper session.
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It's curious, given the cultural currency of having Thom Yorke feature on your track, just how many artists choose to turn his vocals down in the mix.
The "Wake Up Jack" edit of the track gives a floor-ready bite to the original song, pitching the vocals down and darkening the tone significantly.
On the video, Skrillex explained how he sampled co-writer Julia Michaels' a cappella vocals for the "Sorry" writing session, pitch-shifting the vocals down 4 then up 12 steps to produce the desired effect.
Every so often, on tracks like "Minnesota, WI, Vernonn's vocal drops down to a rumble but never loses its stamp.
Her obvious influence was Fairport Convention's Sandy Denny, whose vocal style, down to the British inflection, closely replicated that of Fairport's legendary lead singer.
The nearest I ever saw him to crying was when Montserrat came in and put the first vocal tracks down for the song Barcelona.
Take the title track: it's relentlessly circuitous, Lennox's droning vocal bearing down on an aggressively downbeat keyboard melody, which itself presses against an urgent guitar line doctored to sound like a sheet of metal being shaken.
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