Elle McAndrews – Tassels

This is a good song, but it could be so much better with a quality producer and a tiny bit of re-work. To improve it and really make it a great song it’d need:

1) Double tracking on the vocals. This isn’t a live performance (that’s lip syncing in the vid). Use the advantages you have.

2) More dynamic bassline. It’s too static. It needs to groove. The keyboard hook is good but the bassline is a dead fish.

3) It should bump up the voice during phrases and let the instruments breathe during rests.

4) The song needs more vocal underlayering with chorus ducking during the singer’s phrases.

5) The drummer is just not very good. Use electronic drums or a better drummer.

Give me a few hours mucking around in Ableton and I could make this song a lot better.

Isïa – dis moi

J’aime bien sa voix un peu soufflée mais pleine d’assurance. Sa robe, on dirait un sac-poubelle de camping1 — et pourtant, elle le porte grave bien.

Les mystères s’arrêtent jamais ou quoi ?

  1. I have no fucking idea how to say this in French; I did the best I could.

Comp

I wish it had more actual “behind the scenes,” but Sophie Thatcher has a brain in her head so she’s worth watching in interviews. Incidentally, Companion is my favorite movie of the past couple of years.

One of the outfits Sophie is wearing isn’t in the film so that must’ve been from a deleted bit. And she does such a great job with the German scene.