can we get technical ?? yayy !! - Ok then, from what I heard (I've heard the record twice!) I like the mixing of the album, generally speaking. solid bottom end ! However, I HATE kick on What About Now (the song) - WAYYY too upper-mid range-y, wayyy too clicky, feels kinda out of place.
What ruins this and 90% of the all records out there (minus Blunderbuss by Jack White!) is the mastering.
The Loudness war (look it up if you don't know what it is) is indeed ruining music. There are no dynamics whatsoever, it's WAY too crushed and compressed.
I would like to put it through an analyzer but I'm pretty sure most songs are as loud as -6 dB RMS, which, for those who don't know, is PRETTY loud. This means that the quite parts are almost as 'loud' as the louder passages. in the long run, this makes the record fatiguing to the ear. But that's another story.
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