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From The Desk Of The Cribs’ Gary Jarman: Home Recording

In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull (Wichita), the follow-up to 2009’s enormously successful Ignore The Ignorant, represents a physical return to the Cribs’ original band-of-Brit-brothers format—Gary Jarman on bass/vocals, his twin Ryan on guitar/vocals and younger sibling Ross on drums—after the departure of the massively influential Johnny Marr. The Smiths guitarist added sinewy guitar and a palpable sense of maturation to the Cribs’ already potent sound, and given the new LP’s blend of visceral raw-punk energy and full-bodied pop melodicism, Marr’s two-year tenure with the band left an obvious mark on it creative approach. Gary will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our recent feature on the Cribs.

Jarman: This is my greatest source of enjoyment. I got my first four-track for Christmas ’96, and it changed my life. I love every bit of the process: the setting up, trying different placements to see what works then the actual recording and mixing. Doing it at home is just the best thing, as you have so much time and the limitations encourage you to go off-piste a lot more. Listening back to the recordings is so rewarding because every nuance of the sonics is familiar and evocative to you.

Video after the jump.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-MH1tdLtDo