DISTRIBUTION - Self-Producing + Self-Distribution

An interview with someone with experience of self-producing and self-distribution

Arcade Fire, Canadian indie art rockers, are an act who self-produced their debut EP and first two albums. With their third album they co-produced it with a producer, then the fourth with two, and the fifth with a number of producers involved.

This coincides with some criticisms that they having been verging to the mainstream.

With James Murphy however they certainly didn't let their artistic intentions be made less clear (Rolling Stone article)

James Murphy wasn't sure what to expect when the Arcade Fire arrived to record with him at DFA Records' New York studio in March. "There's a lot of them, and they're mostly self-produced – like, they don't need a producer in a certain way," Murphy tells Rolling Stone. "So I didn't know how it would go."

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