Cut from the Same Cloth

     

Yesterday's post (and Pat's enthusiasm therefor) reminded me of an interesting tidbit I discovered a while back: The National's Boxer and Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights were recorded in the same studio. What was striking about that discovery to me is that I always thought they sounded similar; their monotone, baritone singers and busy drumming have led me (to some disagreement) to describe The National as "a folksier version of Interpol." And lo, it turns out that both were produced by Peter Katis and recorded at Tarquin Studios in Connecticut, meaning the sonic connection is even deeper than I imagined.

Bonus fact: Animal Collective's Water Curses and Deerhunter's Microcastle (as well as Atlas Sound's Parallax) were both recorded at Rare Book Room in Brooklyn.