Up to 2003, they were really a band. They went rehearsed all together the new songs, developping ideas organically. After that, came the Shanks digital era, where it seems that progressively, more and more of the songs had only been "acoustic demos" before recording them - one instrument at a time - onto an audio mixing software.
We can understand this change just by listening to the different instruments - how many parts become sort of generic and repetitive after a while. Whereas even in a record like Crush, the rhythms and the basslines, and the keyboard licks, and of course the guitar licks, they vary a lot - giving much more ... soul to the output.
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