Dave Stewart Memoir

[lilyfee]

People want to hear and feel the emotion in the human voice, and for me that's the most important thing to get right. There came a point in music when you could have forty-eight tracks, then seventy-two tracks or so, and just create a giant wall of music. And not a good wall of sound, like Phil Spector's - which was crafted always around the singer - but just a big wall with no dynamics that would overcome the voice. I believed in following the voice on its journey, and that's still my thing. The success of Adele is no surprise, as everything is built around her voice.

This is definitely true but I have trouble seeing where he has done this for Stevie. Pre-Dave her voice had that beautiful human fragility but lately it just seems overproduced to me.