Mix Analysis 7 - Come on Baby, Let's Do the Cringe

Artist: Chewing on Tinfoil

Song: “Come on Baby Let’s Do the Cringe”

Album: Ska is Dead Series 2

Year: 2012

Recorded at Badlands Studios, Harolds Cross, Dublin

Mastered by Underground Communique & Abestos Records

Also worked with: Bomb the Music Industry!, Suburban Legends

Link:

chewingontinfoil.bandcamp.com/album/ska-is-dead-series-2

0:00-0:02 Tom roll intro

0:02-0:13 Drums, Lead Guitar, Bass, Keys

0:14-0:39 Vocals, Drums, Lead Guitar, Bass, Keys

0:40-0:41 Vocals

0:41-0:51 Drums, Vocals, lead guitar, bass, keys

0:52-0:53 Vocals

0:54-1:04 drums, lead guitar, bass, keys

1:05-1:19 vocals, drums, lead guitar, bass, keys

1:20-1:22 vocals

1:23-1:32 drums, lead guitar, bass, keys

1:33-1:34 vocals

1:34-1:44 vocals drums, lead guitar, bass, keys

1:45-1:46 vocals

1:46-1:56 vocals, lead guitar, drums, bass

1:57-2:07 vocals, lead guitar, drums, bass, grand piano

2:08-2:09 vocals

2:09-2:15 vocals, lead guitar, drums, bass, keys

2:16-2:31 vocals, background vocals, lead guitar, drums, bass, keys

2:32-2:41 lead guitar, drums, bass, keys (outro)

Instrument Level Pan

Snare 6 0

Kick 6 0

Hi-hat 6 0

Toms 6 -10, 10

Cymbals 6 -6, 6

Vocals 8 0

Background vocals 6 0

Rhythm Guitar 8 0

Guitar(lead parts) 8 0

Guitar (rhythm) 7 0

Keys 7 0

              Chewing on Tinfoil is an ska band from Dublin, Ireland, they were asked to write a single to be put on the Ska is Dead Series 2 compilation album. This song, “Come on Baby, Let’s Do the Cringe.” is an unusual example of third wave punk ska, since you can hear their songs and think they are ska from the upstrumming rhythm, use of a keyboard, walking basslines, and punk but cleaner drum sounds, but they don’t have a horn section. Whatever genre you want to call it, this is a very clean and nice recording. I own their first album, and in it there were many artifacts like coughs and people talking; those were probably left in, and it has the charm of a dirty basement recording, although looking back it also sounds like one too. This song, and their most current album, have a much cleaner and professional studio sound to them. The song follows a lot of the standard in third wave punk-ska. The keys, bass, and drums keep the rhythm, with the guitar jumps in and out of rhythm and melody. The vocals are matched with the guitar in terms of level. There are a number of parts where the instruments all stop, and the vocals are the only thing there, which not only adds some punctuation to the song, it also lets the vocals be the only thing you can hear. There’s some background vocals too that for the most part serve to mostly accent the main vocals, until the end when there are two different parts going on at once. They keyboard mostly sounds like an organ, since that’s a fallback in ska, but what sounds like a grand piano comes in later near the end for effect.