![]() ![]() He’s as prone to online hype as anyone, having responded to the interest around the Silver Bullet and enjoying what the stereo pre-amp has brought to his recording set-up. ![]() “It sounds good on everything you do,” he says, “it just lifts the top end.” ![]() It has beautiful stereo compression.” He has a Chandler Curvebender (‘really delicious’), a simple Clariphonic Parallel EQ. “Everything I mix has gone through the Thermionic Culture Phoenix for close to ten years. He still incorporates a lot of outboard gear. “I was gathering microphones, pre-amps, outboards, compressors, tape delays, new instruments, and eventually I peaked with all that.” He moved to LA in 2017 and pared everything back. It’s a fair distance literally and kit-wise from the fulsome recording hub he ran for twelve years in downtown Reykjavík, which he built after graduating in visual art from Iceland’s Academy of Arts. Our conversation is thus at risk of being drowned out, in the kind of accidentally insensitive intrusion that sits in direct opposition to the ultra-careful compositions he brought to his scores for Honey Boy or the recent Taylor Swift documentary Miss Americana, or his long collaboration with Sigur Rós. It’s beautiful, although his neighbour has decided that now is an excellent time to embark on some serious leaf-blowing. The sun is filtering onto a brick wall in the backyard of Alex Somer’s place in LA. ![]()
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