Randi Russo’s Fragile Animal
Randi Russo
Fragile Animal
Hidden Target Recordings/Olive Juice Music
Released 29 March 2011
Long before Fragile Animal, Randi Russo released her second album, her first that wasn’t a CDR, the that one she decided to have mastered (Solar Bipolar), unlike most of the Antifolk class at the time. Her first release was completely lo-fi, un-mastered, brilliant, and flawed in it’s own way. This second album had been given the professional treatment. She handed it to me, hesitant about the way it had been finished, but what an incredible difference the mastering had made. Since then, we have stopped concentrating on the production values and focused on the more important lyrics and melodies, painful, heartfelt, and visceral.
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