No Need to Be Downhearted


No Need to Be Downhearted is an album by The Electric Soft Parade, released in 2007. The first single was "If That's the Case, Then I Don't Know".
The album was named after a lyric from The Fall's song "15 Ways" from their album Middle Class Revolt.

Production

Unlike previous releases, the album was self-produced and recorded entirely digitally, using a demo version of ProTools, lending the album a hard, brittle sound. Compared to the relatively restrained arrangement and mix of earlier work, the album is richly layered - at times cluttered and busy - a result of the bands' trademark 'loose over-dubbing'. The LP also features wide use of sampled Mellotron and MIDI percussion, mostly filtered through heavy reverb and compression. On release, reviewers also noted the synth-like sounds on many tracks. In fact, a large portion of the guitars on the album were DI'd. The gain on the channel would then be turned up full, resulting in a saturated, squarewave-like tone.

Track listing

  1. "No Need to Be Downhearted " – 2:04
  2. "Life in the Backseat" – 3:08
  3. "Woken by a Kiss" – 5:57
  4. "If That's the Case, Then I Don't Know" – 4:57
  5. "Shore Song/Surfacing" – 4:25
  6. "Misunderstanding" – 3:37
  7. "Secrets" – 3:46
  8. "Cold World/Starry Nite #1" – 5:32
  9. "Have You Ever Felt Like It's Too Late?" – 3:28
  10. "Come Back Inside" – 3:50
  11. "Appropriate Ending" – 3:01
  12. "No Need to Be Downhearted " – 5:12