“我认为我们以错误的方式做了很多事情。”白白为何遵循他们的直觉意味着抛弃整张专辑的唱片价值
路易斯维尔车库朋克关于为什么他们不得不撕毁一些事情，以遵循自己的本能，以寻求“乐趣”，崇拜眨眼182，并培养一个真正的协作吉他演奏环境。
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Tony Esposito and Hunter Thompson are playing chess, shifting pieces on the board while peeling off duelling solos from the guitars cinched at their waists. The image is a cool-as-hell piece of rock ‘n’ roll nonsense from白收割机recent video for雾机, a single that is essentially a cool-as-hell piece of rock ‘n’ roll nonsense all by itself.
Out of Louisville, Kentucky, White Reaper have developed a solid rep for this sort of stuff over the past decade, putting out a trio of records that alternately proved their mettle as garage-rock revivalists,把戏-style melody obsessives and uber-slick pop-rockers. Their latest missive,要求兜风，允许他们所有不同的关注物流血成大量的即兴演奏，糖钩和嘶嘶声。Esposito说：“我们的许多决定都受到我们乐趣的信息。”
He’s not lying, but that sense of fun is backed up by a meticulous streak. It quickly becomes apparent while talking to Esposito and Thompson that they will chase down a spark until their lungs give out.雾机这是这个性格特征的一个很好的例子 - 这是一首备用的，令人兴奋的摇滚歌曲，听起来并没有痛苦，但事实并非如此。埃斯波西托说：“我觉得一旦我想到即兴即兴，我就会立即打电话给亨特。”“但这几乎是一段时间的全部 - 这只是很长一段时间的即兴演奏。”
The arrangement came together at the very last moment, clicking into place while being workshopped in the rehearsal space just as time started to run out before tracking. “We were actually listening to an old demo of it the other day that just never resolves,” Thompson says. “I don’t know why. We were trying to think of other riffs that could go with that, and it just did not seem to work out.
“就在记录之前，我们将其带到了乐队，我们仍然处于围栏上，即使我们要使用它。我们播放了它，在录制它之前几天后就弄清楚了，它自动是最有趣的游戏之一。显然，这是一首非常有趣的摇滚歌曲，它有所有的比喻。我觉得我们最好的歌曲来自真实的最后一刻兴奋。”
The band – rounded out by keyboard player Ryan Hater and brothers Sam and Nick Wilkerson on bass and drums respectively – swung and missed at要求兜风在建立正确的联系之前几次，一项报废的尝试在西雅图捕捉纪录 - 归结为错误的制作人，错误的空间和错误的时间 - 碰到Zoom呼叫的Covid Jumble，并且一直在世界上流汗了小东西。
汤普森说：“我认为我们以错误的方式做了很多事情。”“我们有时会在厨房里与所有五个厨师一起写作，有时这是行不通的。我们意识到我们需要迅速移动歌曲，我们需要建立核心想法，然后将它们带到乐队，而不是对他们失去动力，不要让他们坐在Zoom上在我们的计算机上过度生产它们，并添加15吉他轨道。然后，感觉就像这首难以重现的不可或缺的歌曲。”
与杰伊·乔伊斯（Jay Joyce）合作，这是2019年的流行摇滚和乡村世界的大击球手You Deserve Loveand Kevin Ratterman, an emo vet whose production work spans我的早上夹克,Emma Ruth Rundleand the shit-kicking Canadian rockers Sam Coffey and the Iron Lungs, on their 2017 mission statementThe World’s Best American Band，怀特·收割者最终在与纳什维尔的战斗录像带杰里米·弗格森（Jeremy Ferguson）会议期间指导了过程。
也许结果要求兜风快速，大声且令人愉悦，但不可否认的是散落。从本质上讲，这是将想法抛在墙上的一种练习，从Metallica-esque riffage to Thompston-ledBlink-182敬拜和敲击独奏，向Esposito致敬Randy Rhoadsin a way that reflects the band’s top-to-bottom involvement and love for these sounds. “No one cares as much about the band as the people that are in the band,” Esposito says. “It’s kind of hard to find someone else with the same kind of fire or passion.”
“What we needed was a good engineer who could facilitate because there’s not really a lack of opinions or tastes in the room about how things should go,” Thompson adds. “It doesn’t feel necessary to bring out a neutral perspective sometimes. A lot of times the engineers can contribute that almost in a more meaningful way, because they’re so focused on the music all day long. A producer is this elusive art that can have its place and be great, but it’s like Tony said, we just feel we know the music the best.”
There was a complementary sense of familiarity about much of the gear that was in play during recording, with Esposito’s吉布森’67飞行v在两位音乐家的大量使用中重新发行，以及Les Paul工作和汤普森的纳什Strat. Tone-wise, Thompson’s go-to Bassman was bolstered by a series of small amps, among them a Vibro Champ, a Princeton and a 50-watt弗里德曼Runt处理了Esposito的所有演奏。“我也使用肯珀有些只是为了放松。”汤普森补充说。“我可能会分开信号，并拿到肯珀，然后将干吉他送入模拟踏板链和放大器。这是我现在在工作室中的典型举措。”
This approach – along with liberal use of a Ten Years pedal modelled afterJosh Homme’ssecret weapon豌豆十年放大器 - 大部分LP具有Buzzsaw风格，即使在标题轨道上，他们对Meathead Metal Riffs来说也很高兴。有趣的是，汤普森几乎被两个凳子夹在两个凳子之间 - 他觉得他们本来可以全力以赴。长期的听众可能会不同意，并指出Esposito的声音用吉他削减中风的方式，但他仍在仔细考虑。他说：“这有真正的咬人。”“从那以后，我对此感到遗憾，但是，它具有自己的魅力。”
Not to labour a point, but that charm is pretty obvious from the outside. There is nothing self-conscious about要求旅行 -it’s a record that was designed to rip, and it does rip. It has a celebratory air to it, founded largely on Esposito and Thompson’s chemistry together. It’s been almost six years since Thompson joined the band during the touring cycle forThe World’s Best American Bandand they’re now finishing each other’s sentences.
Here’s an example: when Thompson mentions having his mind blown by hearing Blink’sAll the Small Things第一次是三年级的人看尼克电影Clockstoppers, Esposito immediately knows the exact scene he’s talking about. “I would rewind it and play it over and over again,” he says. “And then I would ask every single one of my parents’ friends if they knew what it was. Of course, they did not.”
至关重要的是，尽管两个球员都可以努力（很高兴在这里这样做），但对他们的互动没有一种单身或空的表演感。正如我们确定的那样，Rock'N'Roll应该很有趣，而且没有比有人在碎裂手指的时候出汗纯粹的绝望的乐趣。埃斯波西托（Esposito）和汤普森（Thompson）的国际象棋比赛将是失败者真正为获胜者所吸引的那种比赛。Esposito说：“这真的很简单，就像听到另一个人踢一个舔那样，'那是什么？’。”
“我认为有很多积极的聆听，”汤普森继续说道。“想法通常是由对方的兴趣引起或推动的，并确认有些酷的想法。我们俩都弹吉他已经很长时间了，有时您会失去对什么酷事的看法。这就是为什么和托尼一起玩很有趣的原因，因为他听到我的演奏中我什至没有考虑或注意的事情。
“We’ve gotten a lot better about communicating what we like – we’ve had some moments where Tony will have an idea for a solo in his head, but wants me to play it because it’s more my style. He’ll hum something out, and then I’ll follow that thread. We have a little bit of a hive mind.”
白收割机要求兜风1月27日至Elektra.
