Everything is run off backing tracks, everything is triggered, everything is perfect. I’m often disappointed when I see bands live these days because they’re too slick, it’s too polished. “When you work with a band, first of all you need to work out how it sounds, particularly live. So this is what I tried to enhance in my mixes. I wasn’t there for the recordings, but from listening to the Pro Tools sessions it was obvious that he also had captured the sound of a band playing in a room, and got them to sound like a band. James is a brilliant producer, and you can see the fantastic job he did on this Blur album. “This was in the early 2000s, when there were crazy wild parties! It was really nice to have the opportunity to work together again. Wrench originally met Ford during a session for a Simian record, at Bryn Derwen Studio in Wales, where Wrench worked at the time. The Ballad Of Darren was produced by James Ford, well known for his work with Arctic Monkeys, Gorillaz, Florence + the Machine, and many others. This year alone, he produced and mixed the Pretenders’ 12th studio album, Relentless, and Sahel by Nigerian guitarist and singer Bombino, and, as well as Sampha’s second album, Lahai, he mixed the whole of Blur’s ninth studio album, The Ballad Of Darren, which was a UK number one. Photo: Rachel Lipsitzĭavid Wrench’s goal as mix engineer was to make Blur sound like themselves!Īs a producer and/or mixer, David Wrench has worked with Ellie Goulding, Glass Animals, Frank Ocean, David Byrne, Manic Street Preachers, Florence + the Machine, the xx and many more.
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