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Mark Sblendorio

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Mar 2, 2026, 5:35:08 PMMar 2

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There's an interview with Emma Anderson from Lush in the new issue of The Big Takeover. She talks about the different producers they used, and mentioned this:

JB [James Broscheid]: So, there was no thought process behind working with three different producers for the demo tracks, ‘Scar’, and ‘Mad Love’ or was it a matter of going along with Ivo and see what happens?

EA: Yeah, we went along with Ivo’s advice. Apart from Robin, as I said, John and Tim were Ivo’s suggestions, and we agreed. Jumping ahead, we obviously went with Robin for ‘Spooky’ but then, when we did ‘Split,’ Mike Hedges was very much Ivo’s suggestion. We just went with Ivo’s ideas at that point. I think it worked out.

JB: Yeah, it did!

EA: But there was no, “Hey! Let’s try all these different people!” I do remember, actually, when we were going to record ‘Split,’ Ivo had the idea of going with Bob Mould.

JB: Wow!
EA: I did speak to Bob on the phone, and I love Hüsker Dü and Sugar, but I remember, even at that point, thinking, “Oh God, if we go too far down this road, it will feel like we’re guinea pigs!” Lush produced by Robin Guthrie, Lush produced by Bob … you know? I thought, “Oh my God, can we just try and calm things down a little bit of this slightly expensive approach to producers?” but anyway, we didn’t work with him in the end.

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Split is one of my all-time favorite albums...I can't imagine it sounding better with Bob producing it.