Mark Richardson

Reverb. It’s at the point now where a simply recorded, close-mic’d voice without any processing actually sounds psychedelic. You’re like “Wow, what is that?” and it’s someone singing into a dry microphone. This is another reason whey I’ve had this Bill Callahan obsession in the last year or so, and why I wish Jim O’Rourke would return to producing song-oriented records for other people. Listen to the first Sam Prekop record, which O’Rourke recorded, mixed, and arranged. It sounds absolutely gorgeous, and everything is so simple and direct. Reverb is also why I could never really get into Panda Bear’s Tomboy. I like it all right, but everything sort of blurred together for me and it was hard to hear him in it.