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and collaborative energy and will surely become a classic for it's elegance

He doesn't radically alter the duo 's sound so much as coax out more of it's inherent soulfulness

The record not only has his usual backing musicians

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" features what Dessner calls maybe the "clearest distillation" of his varying songwriting and production styles

Superchuck - Here's to Shutting Up trap and collaborative energy and willFrom Mac McCaughan of Superchunk: To write the songs for Here's to Shutting Up, we gathered in Jim's garage (he lived way out in the woods) a couple times a week for what seemed like months. We started from actual scratch with no demos or concepts, just playing instrumental music with our usual gear plus a Casio. We recorded the album in the Cabbagetown neighborhood of Atlanta at Zero Return, the studio built by Brian and Rob (aka Birdstuff and Coco