Mark Foster of Foster the People knows there’s a limit to chasing musical perfection. “It was really important in the recording process not to overcook anything,” he says about their latest album, Paradise State of Mind.
“For the last 15 years, technology has gotten us to a place where we can make music perfect. Everybody is obsessed with quantizing the drums and making everything line up perfectly. But I found myself listening to music from the Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties over and over again. We tried to use some of the techniques they were using back then… to not fix things, but to let things swing.”
