About Hailstone Hands Of God
I was listening to the Up To Here deluxe when I came across this song. On my first listen, I noticed that Gord's vocals sounded off (and I'm not talking about that effect over his voice compared to the clear band backing track, because they've rerecorded the instrumental for Ouch from Saskadelphia before too). During the first few lyrics, his pronunciation sounds to me like someone else's, or his vocals were run through some A.I. model to upscale them or something. As for the effect, it wouldn't make sense for this one song to have such a weird effect on his vocals when the other 1988 demos (sourced from the same cassette) have clear vocals. To me, it looks like they purposely placed this effect to mask the A.I. cadence. It also doesn't make sense why they moved forward with the other songs on the tape but left this one as a demo. Does anyone else hear this, or am I going insane? (I don't think the boys would authorize their label to do something like this, right?).