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Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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The Importance of Muting
It was the most insane recording process It just made me so anxious through the whole thing I just really had to trust Jake because he had a very strong idea for how he wanted to do it. We did like two, three, maybe four takes of each song And those were the drum takes So what you're hearing on the album is Pat like hearing the songs for the first time He's trying to figure out how it goes and talking to his wife on the phone. "It's just kind of terrifying as the songwriter You want everything to go right"
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