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Ben Rogerson

“I was like, ‘man - this is the energy’”: Billie Eilish’s mix engineers reveal the star's “favourite part” of her smash hit, Birds Of A Feather

Billie Eilish.

It’s nice to imagine that Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas complete all their albums - from start to finish - in their home studio. The truth is that there are other people involved though, and when it came to mixing Eilish’s third full-length record, Hit Me Hard And Soft, two of those people were Jon Castelli and his co-mixer Aron Forbes.

One of the standout tracks from the record, of course, was smash hit not-a-single Birds Of A Feather, and in a new multipart video series for Mix with the Masters, Castelli and Forbes have been explaining how they made its component parts gel together.

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