If you ever need a primer on the role of a producer in record production, listen to any Longwave album besides this one. On any other album they sound like bad Strokes clones: Chimey guitars, low-rent Lou Reed vocals, and the standard issue four on the floor back beat. But on this one album, they were actually kinda interesting...and that is entirely due to the production work of the esteemable Dave Fridmann.
Fridmann used all the tricks at his disposal to make this band interesting; the heavily flanged drums he pioneered with The Flaming Lips, the wall of shoegazer sound he borrowed from Nigel Godrich, and the melodic sensibilities he honed with his own band. All of these things combined to make a dreampop album that was exactly what everyone was crazy for in 2003...well at least everyone in my little circle. But good God was their follow-up boring....sub Strokes songs, with forgettable melodies. Should have stuck with what you knew gentlemen.
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