Worn Thin

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Worn Thin is the debut album by the New York City rock band WEEP, released July 13, 2010 through Projekt Record. It includes a remix of the song Ever Shy from the band's 2008 debut EP Never Ever, as well as cover versions of Jesus Jones' Right Here, Right Now and Rihanna's Shut Up and Drive. For Worn Thin the band strove for a high production value to the track, an approach Hammer described as "almost like a reactionary antidote to what we're sick of in music. That dry, low-tech production of the past ten years is tiring. It's in its footy pajama, and it needs to take a nap. We wanted something lush and dramatic for the songs on Worn Thin. They usually relegate that kinda over-the-top production to Lady Gaga. But believe me, it works really well with a messy little band like WEEP. It was fun pushing these songs to a place that most bands would feel goofy pushing them to. The vocals have three- and even four-part harmonie, which for a guy with my brass pipe, is no small feat. And we have string and horn sections that push the material right over the cliff. But at the same time, when we approached the guitar-heavy song, we backed off all the bells and cranked up the amp. I guess we just took each song on its own and did everything in our power to present it the way we heard it in our head." .

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