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notes Julian Casablancas talking about Bright Eyes (May 2010)Interviewer: Is there a song out there that sometimes you think, "Well shit...why didn't I write that?" What is it, and why is it so fabulous? Julian Casablancas: I guess you feel that pretty often…? As in, you hear moonlight sonata and think, 'would have been cool if I casually wrote that yesterday morning.' Tho I realistically felt it maybe for the first time just the other day. We were having this awesome bizarro-rad, late-nite jam-a-thon at Mike Mogis’s house/studio when we toured in Omaha. Conor Oberst was singing over some keyboard-part jam (sounded nothing like any Bright Eyes thing I’d ever heard) and that’s totally what I was thinking. Sounded like something I wish I'd written. Which was pleasantly weird. -
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notes"That was something he wanted to do and I was resistant at first, because if there’s one thing that’s sacred about Bright Eyes from a fan’s perspective, it’s Conor’s vocals. When we started, he told me how effect-heavy he wanted it to be, and I was like, ‘Are you serious?’ But as the songs developed, we dialed in some sounds that we liked and just went for it, although I sometimes dialed it back in the mix."Mike Mogis, talking about the vocal effects on The People’s Key
March 2011
The vocal effects being: Doubled, treated sound of Oberst’s vocals, most of which were printed through a Moog Voyager and run into a variety of guitar pedals, including a Roland RE 201 Space Echo, Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail E-H Polychorus and Moog MURF, with EMT plate reverb.
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notesBright Eyes Much interview 2011
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notes"I used to think that being a producer carried this baggage of being too corporate. So I thought of myself as an engineer who helped artists formulate a song and create parts. But I guess that turned out to be what a producer does-they help someone realize their ideas and bring them into a real tangible state." -
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notes About The People's KeyConorOberst: It’s about as electronic as apple pie! MikeMogis: It’s just not as folky a sound, the synths that are on there you can find on a Cure record. -
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notes"I’ve taken a little something from every project I’ve worked on. Working with [M. Ward] taught me how to strip something down, how to censor myself. “I think that’s made our songs a lot more focused and driven."
