Mastodon Chat To I Like Music

ILM: With Crack The Skye you worked with producer Brendan O'Brien instead of producer Matt Bayles, who you worked with on your first three albums. What was it like working with Brendan O'Brien? Why did you make that decision?

Brann: It was great. He was fantastic. A breath of fresh air. Nine months of working on an album, I mean, it's hard to see the forest for the trees. You're in there flogging it out everyday and playing the same songs. You kind of get to a point where it's like "I'm ready to go into the studio. Let's do this!" We were scheduled to record with Rich Costey but it didn't work out. We were ready to go in in May, he had us scheduled to go in in October. If we were to sit around for six months on the material then it wouldn't have been this record. It wouldn't have been as exciting to record it. Also, to be honest, I didn't feel like he was on the same page as us. He had a long list of changes that he thought needed to be made in the songs. And we didn't feel that way at all. We thought the songs were where they needed to be and at that point you have really got to just trust your instincts. We knew we needed to find someone else.
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