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Thread #145633   Message #3371401
Posted By: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
03-Jul-12 - 02:47 PM
Thread Name: Elle Osborne - Singer of the year??
Subject: RE: Elle Osborne - Singer of the year??
so some anonymous pissfwit typed a few pathetic comments late last night....

nah, ignore the twat..

We're surely mature and robust enough not to need this thread closed down
just because it attracted the attention of 1 solitary insignificant venomous arsewipe.

Anyway...

Eventually got round to listening to tracks at Folk Police;
despite tech problems with buffering and "File not found" alerts..

"The Handsome Meadow Boy" - didn't like it;
bloody irritating drums and half baked arrangement & production.
Her more out of tune notes were made more glaringly obvious
clashing against the rest of the band accompaniment.
I'd prefere to have heard her sing this solo.

"My Coffin Shall Be Black" - liked it;
arrangement has a bit more substance and bollocks to it.
Drums are less irritating.

She's got a kind of voice I like.
But think a band setting probably highights her pitching idosyncracies..???

To be blunt, and as anathema as this is to most here,
there may be a positive case to be made for subtle use of 'autotune',
or at leat re-recorded 'drop ins',
for odd individual notes at her CD recording sessions...

Live of coures, should be a different warts and all experience,
But now she's gaining attention, tracks recorded for commercial posterity
might need a little 'gentle' post-production tweaking ???