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Habitat was finished in a grand total of 16 days, with Korody – whos lately worked behind the boards on smashing records by such fellow Torontonians of note as Dilly Dally and Weaves, as well as playing in Wish, Vallens, Breeze and a heroic number of other acts on the side – serving as producer and engineer, studio multi-tasker Leon Taheny (Austra, Death From Above 1979, Owen Pallett) sitting in as drummer and Holy Fucks Graham Walsh giving the whole affair the same sort of bristlingly immediate final mixdown hes brought to recent albums by Preoccupations, Alvvays and METZ.
“Its a dark record, for sure,” affirms Crowe. “I feel like we were drawing a lot more from, like, me being a Goth teenager and Josh only wanting to listen to Aphex Twin and me only wanting to listen to Portisheads Third for the last year and stuff like that. But also it was time to embody the elements of being a wall-of-sound band with some space and the idea of being able to be quiet when you should be quiet, and you cant do that with three guitars. Theres no space. It just becomes all push and no pull.”
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