They originally had it mastered by someone else, then redone by Will Yip, so I'm wondering if he mastered from the already compressed master!
I think he’s been sitting on this album for a minute, National covers were just a quarantine thing that just kinda happened and ended up being good PR hahah. He was a part of this band Stay Inside that put out a pretty good hardcore record this year but I don’t think he was a part of that record specifically. So yeah, just kinda been in the DC music scene for a minute before he got his album together. The Uproxx interview a couple pages back was pretty good if you wanna check it out.
He also put out a solo EP as Bartees and the Strange Fruit in 2017 - it's not on Spotify but is on YouTube.
wait he's a member of stay inside, the band? saw the cohen tweet about this and came to check it out. its v good
It is so rare and special to get such a flawlessly executed melting pot of influences like this. It sounds like nothing and everything at the same time. Truly could not love it more
Just finished my first listen. This is very cool, a lot of different vibes going on. Definitely dug it.
This sounds like I’m literally being transported to another world for 30 minutes. Getting real deep inside someone else’s headspace. I love it for that.