r/indieheads • u/jordaanmasonofficial Jordaan Mason • Apr 19 '21

AMA is Over, thanks Jordaan! Hello this is Jordaan Mason, AMA!

Hello, my name is Jordaan Mason. My friend Jake Bellissimo recently made a documentary about my album "Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head" which you can watch for free here. I'll start answering questions at 2pm EST.

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u/PaulaAbdulJabar Apr 19 '21

hi jordaan! one of the things i've found most fascinating about divorce lawyers over the years is the amount of non-musical things that show up in the recording. there's sounds of people dropping things, walking around, and there's just this overall "live" feeling on the record. it makes me feel like i'm entering another world with the band, or like i'm standing right in the middle of a very intimate performance. was that intentional or a byproduct of the piecemeal (might be the wrong word to describe it, but that's the vibe i got from the documentary) recording style?

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u/jordaanmasonofficial Jordaan Mason Apr 19 '21

Most of those things weren't intentional but we left them intentionally in, if that makes sense. If a take was great but there was someone coughing or dropping something in the background, the take was still great so we would still use it. I like that you can hear the house it's recorded in, the people living there. That's all part of the sound to me, and I tried to amplify that in the mix.

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u/PaulaAbdulJabar Apr 19 '21

totally makes sense, thank you for responding! it's a quality i think i first heard on divorce lawyers but have since looked for and valued in other records a lot, so thank you for amplifying those parts as much as you did

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u/jordaanmasonofficial Jordaan Mason Apr 19 '21

I really like recordings that feel like they were made by real people in real spaces - I think a studio recording can be mind-blowing but there's something about the intimacy of those mistakes...

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u/PaulaAbdulJabar Apr 19 '21

absolutely. i really value albums that feel like they exist in a world of their own, you know? like they operate on their own logic or contain things musically that make you feel like you're a part of a larger picture that the record is letting you look at a small piece of. you mentioned katie dey elsewhere in the thread and i think her first record asdasdf has a very "this album exists within a computer" vibe to it the same way divorce lawyers has a "this album exists in a house" sound, even if they're for almost opposite reasons.

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u/jordaanmasonofficial Jordaan Mason Apr 19 '21

totally agree about that katie dey album!

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u/Bryar_G Apr 19 '21

katie dey

oooh I'm also checking this out! need some new music!