OBJECTS: Two-Man Giant Squid
Photo Credit: Annalie Bouchard
It’s been a couple of months since the dance punk band Two-Man Giant Squid released their self-titled album. In our first episode of OBJECTS, we hear from frontman Mitch Vinokur about the process of putting together the 7-track album. As the band self-mixed/produced half of the album–Teddy O’Mara did the other half–Vinokur chose envelopes, photographs, and the back of random documents to jot down notes on the sonic elements of the record.
“I spent a lot of days here around this really cluttered mess of a way that I write notes,” Vinokur says. Watch as he shares OBJECTS from the band’s production and mixing sessions.
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