https://padlet.com/tho18840667/f89ohm0y9itge8pn en-us 2023-01-19 09:54:57 UTC 2025-12-24 21:54:59 UTC hello@padlet.com tho18840667 https://padlet.com/tho18840667/f89ohm0y9itge8pn/wish/2449598847 - Lyrics: writes to make sense of past traumas. "I'll walk around my yard or my house and just play some melodies on the guitar, and then the vocal melodies will naturally start to come in. Eventually, the weird gibberish that I'm singing in place of lyrics will turn into words."
- He is inspired by Linkin Park who mixes alternative music with hip-hop and rap, but in the album incorporates elements of post-punk, new wave, hard rock, electro-pop, folk and more. 
- Mix of vocals and rap.
- Wrote while playing with the stylistic boundaries of the project.
- Quick-shifting styles, emotional charge of songs and distinctive songwriting sensibilities.
- Each song is 2-3 minutes long.]]> 2023-01-19 10:30:39 UTC https://padlet.com/tho18840667/f89ohm0y9itge8pn/wish/2449598847 tho18840667 https://padlet.com/tho18840667/f89ohm0y9itge8pn/wish/2449627993 -  Mics: ics, [Sennheiser] 421s on the toms and a Shure 546 on the snare.” An AKG D12 captured the kick. “It sounds super punchy,”. “We changed the overheads out a lot on this record to get different sounds for different types of songs. For the fast songs, we used [Telefunken] 251s. For the rock songs, we used Coles 4038s. And for the heavy rock songs, like the song ‘45,’ it was [Neumann] U67s. “I use a Sony C-37A for heavy guitars."
- Signed up to watch tutorials on Mix with the Masters and pureMix.net.]]> 2023-01-19 11:00:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tho18840667/f89ohm0y9itge8pn/wish/2449627993 tho18840667 https://padlet.com/tho18840667/f89ohm0y9itge8pn/wish/2449635922 - The lyrics on Berkeley’s On Fire, the album, stick with you, whether it’s the deftness of Trashbag Baby (‘The words cut through her lips like a Japanese knife’) or the provocation of Hellboy (‘Charlie Manson is alright / He ain’t no worse than all the violence you say Jesus like’). Perhaps the finest example comes during Lose Lose Lose, a cluster bomb of styles and unquestionably the most danceable track of the year to feature the words: ‘2019 is a fuckin’ disaster / Dear Vladimir Putin stop fuckin’ up my shit coz I know I can fuck it up faster.’
- Got through multiple snare drums after his initial offerings were nixed by the producer for sounding “too pop” and “too rock”.
- onvergence of diverse sounds and unusual arrangements
- “The more you can feel, the better you’re going to be as a person. And only when you feel like a better person can you help with bringing about real change. That’s what music does.”
- Album inspired by a riot in 2017.
- The song "Lose, Lose Lose" as being "Mentos in Diet Coke levels of explosive."

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