12 Aug Grouplove & Dave Sitek on Tape Notes’ Newest Podcast Episode
Producer, mixer, songwriter and GPS client Dave Sitek?is featured on the new Tape Notes?podcast with Grouplove’s Hannah Hooper and Christian Zucconi. The podcast’s central theme is “the art of making an album“, and this episode dives into Grouplove’s newest album?Healer (Atlantic/Warner) which was produced and co-written by Sitek. From the podcast blurb:
“In this episode, John catches up with?Grouplove?s?Hannah Hooper and Christian Zucconi along with legendary producer Dave?Sitek?to breakdown how they wrote, recorded and produced the band?s latest album?Healer.
As their first record with an outside producer, the band reflect on their creative flow, pulling apart tracks bit by bit and showing us how Dave was the perfect weirdo to bring the album together. From jamming out five-hour demos at Hannah?s parent?s house to spending over a month recording from 9pm through to 11am, fuelled by cookies with cream cheese, breakfast burritos and copious amounts of weed.
We hear theories on how people?s souls enter your body to give you songs, why Dave has been the cause of multiple people?s synth addictions, and we are treated to unheard midnight vocal takes recorded just before Hannah?s vocal surgery.”