So, In Regard To This New EP......

[JamieSPC]

Originally Posted by TrueFaith77

I think Lindsey's production on SWS was nearly-awful.

I think that the songs he didn't produce that appeared on the soundtrack for that movie were exhilarating and sounded so fresh and perfect. He should bring that guy in for the Mac album/ep/whateversnevergonnabe.

Couldn't agree more. In fact, I find all the talk of "formulaic" ironic. Lindsey's "production" is formula. Jangly, plucky guitars with tons of high end (geez, who does his mastering? It's awful); homogenous vocal effects that inexplicably disguise an otherwise amazing voice (dude can SING... why does he do that?); multiple songs with metronomes on the rhythm track (I'd think it was a mistake if it didn't seem he was building the track around it). SYW has some incredible songs, and some of them are brilliantly produced. But the above trends began with some of the songs there, and carried over to UTS in particular. OMS and the live tour around it were refreshing vocally, but the backing tracks were still generally poor; some of them sounded like MIDI downloaded from the Interwebz.

Fleetwood Mac desperately needs a producer or engineer or both. Lindsey can arrange and compose, but when it comes to recording... yikes. (This is something Ken Callait has said before, and he is quite right.)