At a time when seemingly everything is made using the same software packages, Control This is a defiantly old-school, analogue record,dispensing with the uniform polish and sheen of contemporary production methods and instead showcasing an array of 'real' instruments and a variety of styles and moods. In the mix are not just bass, drums and guitars and some real antique keyboard sounds but percussion including steel pans, organ, horns, backing vocals, and even strings! All new music, cut live to tape and then seamlessly pieced together across an album of (mostly) cover versions, a living link with the music that was the inspiration for the project. Sounding like something that would be very expensive to produce in this day and age, the finished result nevertheless retains a rawness and gusto that virtually leaps out of the speakers.
