Jonathan Wilson is lauded as a producer for the warm, analog sound he creates in his recording studio full of vintage equipment. Artists such as
Angel Olsen and
Father John Misty already recorded successful albums there. Wilson, of course, also likes to use his studio for his own work. On Eat The Worm, the studio seems to have become more of a playground than a workplace. That is by no means to say
… anything about the quality, but all the more about the freedom and playfulness with which Wilson approaches his productions. On the song Bonamassa, for example, he is completely guided by a simple "riff" on the mouth harp, around which he builds a baroque whole. His sound experiments do remind him of Captain Beefheart, but his psychedelic excesses remain pleasing almost throughout. The string arrangements sometimes come off as particularly surprising. In fact, that is the strength of the entire album: each song is another voyage of discovery in itself (JV).more
