I’m pretty sure producers are way more afraid of phasing than they should be. Back in the 60s people didn’t give a shit about cancellation and loved studio tricks, so you can hear these wide-panned double tracked basses that sound incredible, and nowadays that’s wrong. Soundcloud teenagers have been working on fatness perception technology for the last ten years. Ponyboy sounds its doing the same trick people are using every time there’s an !!unusually fat!! bass part i.e. distorted mid segments that sound bigger than normal bass, plus heavy delay, leaving the sub alone.
It’s cool as hell to see a pop act sincerely doing the “I’m using ableton live’s vocoder to make evil alien rock” glorpy complex techno that Oneohtrix Point Never was imagining with Garden of Delete. Sure, it’s petty songs about boring sex but with a fresher sound tying things I Iike into a more salable, commercialized package without the emotional mystery and resonance… okay I just talked myself out of liking Sophie.