EQ Magazine - July 2008 - (Page 17) Analog Tape, Blood Sugar, and Random Bits of Genius Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla Juggles Creative Anarchy and Old-School Techniques to Record Narrow Stairs. “I don’t like to look at my music,” Death Cab for Cutie guitarist and indie-rock producer extraordinaire Chris Walla declares. “Was Glyn Johns sitting in the studio with The Rolling Stones and The Who thinking, ‘God, I can’t wait to look at waveforms?’ What are producers doing these days? I’ll walk into a studio, and I’ll see that the computer screens are placed more strategically than the monitors. It drives me f**king crazy.” As one can easily deduce after listening to any of the incredibly moody Death Cab for Cutie releases readily available at your local hipster watering hole, Walla is a passionate fellow. And there are few things that rile him up more than the current state of recording technology. Though he’ll admit to being too easily moved by the topic at hand—and he doesn’t pretend to be anything but an old-school recording junkie—even the most ardent tech-fiend has to admit the man is clearly on to something. That is, unless heading up a platinum-selling rock band, crafting a critically-acclaimed solo effort [Field Manual], owning two studios, and recording The Decemberists, Nada Surf, Tegan and Sara, and Hot Hot Heat no longer qualifies as a sufficient musical résumé. CO NTI N U E D By Ken Micallef Photographs by Autumn De Wilde www.eqmag.com JULY 2008 EQ 17 http://www.eqmag.com
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