Apr 24
Deer Tick spent a month in Portland, Oregon, recording their forthcoming LP Negativity with Steve Berlin of Los Lobos, with whom John McCauley first collaborated in his Diamond Rugs side project. The band presented Berlin with demos for close to 30 songs, and he chose the 12 he thought were the strongest. McCauley credits Berlin with helping the group hone in on the essence of those tunes. “He really trimmed the fat from all the songs. He was very much about, ‘Let’s get to the point, and focus, and kind of forget everything else,’” says McCauley.
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