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...path that many actresses follow from the movie set to recording studio is lined with misplaced ambitions and audible trauma - remember Lindsay Lohan's and Scarlett Johansson's disastrous efforts? But Gainsbourg has made the transition effortlessly. Her 2006 album 5:55, a collaboration with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, topped the French charts, with critics praising her as a true chanteuse. For her latest album IRM - which will be released on Jan. 26 in the U.S. and most of Europe - she teamed up with eclectic alt-rocker Beck. "He wrote all of the music and lyrics, but we really...
...Information,” Beck left his most recent producers, the Dust Brothers, behind to work with Nigel Godrich, whose previous credits include Radiohead’s “OK Computer” and Beck’s outstanding “Sea Change...
...Clock creates some grinding tension but never figures out how to release it, while Black Swan eddies around a chorus ("This is f___ed up, f___ed up") that hardly mines new emotional territory. You can sense Yorke's grasping for something, and with the help of producer Nigel Godrich, who oversaw Beck's midcareer-crisis record, Sea Change, he eventually finds it: clarity...
Almost immediately, Godrich started dispensing them. McCartney brought in a sprawling series of demos he had recorded at home; Godrich listened and announced that he would work only on the songs that interested him. "No '50s rock-'n'-roll pastiche numbers," says Godrich. "He's a jolly old soul, but I thought maybe just for once we could steer him away from those things." After a week of recording, Godrich told McCartney that his regular band had to sit this one out. "In any tense moment, he'd look over at those guys and say, 'What do you think...
McCartney understood that Godrich was trying to play the role of iconoclast to the complacent icon, and he was willing to go along with it, to a point. "There were a few times I thought, I could sack this guy," says McCartney. "I've produced more records than he's even looked at in a shop." Instead he convinced Godrich that he didn't need to be confrontational to get his point across, and gradually a positive form of creative tension emerged. "When I write, there are times--not always--when I hear John [Lennon] in my head," says McCartney...