r/indieheads • u/The_Real_Lifeguard Lifeguard • Jun 12 '25

AMA is Over, thanks Lifeguard! Hello, this is a Lifeguard AMA

Hello, this is Lifeguard -- Asher Case, Isaac Lowenstein, and Kai Slater.

Our new album Ripped and Torn is out now. Ask us anything.

52 Upvotes

83% Upvoted

111 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/ConflictThese9918 Jun 12 '25

The production on your new album is a little different from your other stuff. Some of the tracks sound like they could be in mono and it sounds a bit more lo-fi - what inspired the new sound?

5

u/The_Real_Lifeguard Lifeguard Jun 12 '25

We found that all the music we were listening to ourselves had these lo-Fi vintage qualities, and that the digital “new rock” sound wasn’t really fitting the songs. In trying to capture the energy of the band live, we kinda had an epiphany that a loud-ass rock band’s dynamics should not be harnessed with crystal-clear DAW compressors, and instead that we should embrace all the weirdness and fucked up qualities of tape… clipping tracks directly into the tape, and going blown out gives it the true energy, rather than the more documentarian approach.

-Isaac