BAND FADE SOLUTION
Matt Corby’s next record may well be a completely self-produced affair. “I’ve always been heading that way,” he said. “It started pre-Telluric. I did this album in LA with my band and a couple of epic producers. A few too many people got involved, and it ended up being total dog s**t.”
He came home from that experience and decided he would take the next five years to learn how to do everything himself. It was too soon for his debut album, Telluric, to show much fruit of that labour. It was recorded rather traditionally: a full band in Sing Sing Studios, with producer Dann Hume and engineer Matt Neighbour at the helm.
Since then, Corby committed to practising a range of instruments and learning to play the drums properly. A few years of this ultra-private music school gave him enough confidence to tackle the next hurdle in his DIY plan; recording every single instrument on Rainbow Valley. “It felt like it could work this time. That I could do everything myself, but not have it sound too much like it was just me,” explained Corby. “When I was younger, guitar and piano were just there to facilitate my singing. Now it’s kind of the opposite. The singing facilitates me having fun in the studio. When something comes to life and is working, it’s like being on drugs. It feels great to hear something that was originally just white noise, come together into a bunch of cool moving elements and production.”
