This article has been imported from chorus.fm for discussion. All of the forum rules still apply. Morning Call, a former Drive-Thru Records band, have remastered and released on streaming what would have been their debut album. more Not all embedded content is displayed here. You can view the original to see embedded videos and other embedded content.
This is great! It will be on rotation for a bit. I remember the band name from DTR samplers back in the day.
this is great. genuinely curious if it truly would've sounded like this if it was released 21 years ago
Glad they get their shine. That last wave of DTR signings were good but the label ran out of gas at the same time.
If it wasn't for the legitimacy of this site I would swear this was an AI band. Edit ok there's another album on there "Screaming In Silence EP (demos 2004)" that sounds much more legit so by remaster they meant ran it all through AI
I think you personally must just not like the production because the Screaming In Silence EP sounds much rougher. It sounds like a demo.
If it was their intended debut then 03-05 would make sense and the demos are the real songs. They were clearly re-ran through AI it's not "production". Hell even the cover looks AI
Can't speak to the production itself because I haven't listened yet, but the cover is definitely AI. It spelled their name wrong on the right side.
My ears the second I heard it? Maybe it's just because I get AI band recs all the time on my Instagram feed but there's just a certain quality in the sound that is immediately obvious to me. And hearing the original demos just confirmed these aren't simply remastered versions
Ha see i didn't even catch that. It's strange cuz the demos prove it's a real band yet have no social media presence, mention of this release anywhere online, etc.
one of the band members uses reddit a bit and a few years ago commented on a thread about the band. there isn't any information on new music that he's posted about, but he did say in that thread there was nothing going on back then. someone might want to message him there if they want more info on this release.
What stands out to me is how clean and honest the production feels for a 2005 release. Nothing sounds over-processed and the songwriting still carries emotion without trying too hard. It’s interesting how many records from that era aged better because they focused more on atmosphere than perfection.
Left side of the car also has one brake light vs two on the right, the front seats in the van are two different heights, the layout of the road is unnatural in general with there being two half lanes the car is in split up by the dashed yellow line and what appears to be a shoulder on each side of the road, the whole cover is uncanny valley.
spotify also has "2026 AIx Records ltd" which i thought was interesting. i searched and found AIX Records – High-Resolution Music - And this is what it says on the website: "Welcome to AIX Records, home to a unique collection of new high-resolution albums. Every title in this shop was recorded and produced at 96 kHz/24-bits. Additionally, there was no equalization, artificial reverberation, dynamics processing, or mastering applied. The only processes used during post production were levels and panning. Each title includes a traditional stereo mix and two individual 5.1 surround mixes." also, morning call isn't even on the website so i am just flabbergasted how something can be remastered if it was never mastered lol regardless, the album bangs