The “War on Loudness” vs. My Current Heartthrobs
Today an IEEE Spectrum article pretentiously called The Future of Music argued against the overcompression of modern music known as the “loudness war.” Aside from the fact that that sounds like a war I want to fight in, it made an argument that we aren’t making technological progress on sound quality because of loud music.
If you have been hanging out around me lately, you know I totally dig the new Justice album, †. Their whole point is loud. Face-rocking, turn-it-up-to-11, side-chain-compressor-to-the-grill loud. Same with that good ol’ SebastiAn who I have previously blogged about. So, are these guys that I love so much right now really destroying the future of music technology? How can you have many of the intense modern sounds without loud? (Does indie rock make this point moot?)