Whole Lotta Losin'

Album: Monsters of Folk (2009)
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  • Mike Mogis, who was the only non-singing member of Monsters of Folk, was also their producer for their one and only album, released in 2009. He told Express Night Out about recording this track, which features lead vocals from their other three members: Jim James, Conor Oberst and M. Ward: "That song came about in sort of a flurry of about four hours of overdubbing a bunch of stuff. It was the last day of our first session [in Omaha, Neb.]. I was in the A room doing rough mixes of some of the songs and they went into the B room by themselves to rough in some ideas... then I added parts as well. That's how it started... That one was an experiment. 'Let's throw together one more song.' It was an improvisational experiment in recording. They literally just tried anything. It could have easily imploded because there was so much in there after four hours. It ended up cool. It's a fun track to listen to. There are bits of things that come in and out and that was due to the more improvisational recording style of the song."

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