No Need to Be Downhearted
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No Need to Be Downhearted is an album by The Electric Soft Parade
, released in 2007. The first single was "If That's the Case, Then I Don't Know".
The album was named after a lyric from The Fall's song "15 Ways" from their album Middle Class Revolt
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and MIDI percussion, mostly filtered through heavy reverb and compression. On release, reviewers also noted the synth-like sounds on many tracks. In fact, a large portion of the guitars on the album were DI'd (plugging the guitar lead directly into the desk rather than mic'ing an amplifier). The gain on the channel would then be turned up full, resulting in a saturated, squarewave-like tone.
The Electric Soft Parade
The Electric Soft Parade are an English psych-pop band from Brighton, comprising brothers Alex and Thomas White, the creative core of the band, as well as a number of other musicians with whom they record and perform live, most recently including Andrew Mitchell and Damo Waters, as well as...
, released in 2007. The first single was "If That's the Case, Then I Don't Know".
The album was named after a lyric from The Fall's song "15 Ways" from their album Middle Class Revolt
Middle Class Revolt
Middle Class Revolt is an album by The Fall, released in 1994 on Permanent Records. It spent one week on the UK album chart at number 48, a marked contrast to the top 10 debut of their preceding album The Infotainment Scan. The album's full title is Middle Class Revolt A/K/A The Vapourisation Of...
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Production
Unlike previous releases, the album was self-produced and recorded entirely digitally, using a demo version of ProTools, lending the album a hard, brittle sound. Compared to the relatively restrained arrangement and mix of earlier work, the album is richly layered - at times cluttered and busy - a result of the bands' trademark 'loose over-dubbing' (a technique whereby any given melody is partly or wholly improvised, then double-tracked approximately, often giving the track in question a slightly out-of-focus, seasick quality). The LP also features wide use of sampled MellotronMellotron
The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin Music Master, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard intended for music...
and MIDI percussion, mostly filtered through heavy reverb and compression. On release, reviewers also noted the synth-like sounds on many tracks. In fact, a large portion of the guitars on the album were DI'd (plugging the guitar lead directly into the desk rather than mic'ing an amplifier). The gain on the channel would then be turned up full, resulting in a saturated, squarewave-like tone.
Track listing
- "No Need to Be Downhearted (Part 1)" – 2:04
- "Life in the Backseat" – 3:08
- "Woken by a Kiss" – 5:57
- "If That's the Case, Then I Don't Know" – 4:57
- "Shore Song/Surfacing" – 4:25
- "Misunderstanding" – 3:37
- "Secrets" – 3:46
- "Cold World/Starry Nite #1" – 5:32
- "Have You Ever Felt Like It's Too Late?" – 3:28
- "Come Back Inside"– 3:50
- "Appropriate Ending"– 3:01
- "No Need to Be Downhearted (Part 2)"– 5:12