One question for Mr Sneap : was this album tracked to a click track ? If so, all the songs or only some of them or some parts ?
Considering it's a Sneap job and the music on this album is pretty straight-forward and not crazy technical, I'd say it was all tracked to a click, and the latter seemed mainly constant within songs (i.e : only 1 tempo per song).
But the thing is : i'm jamming and even attempting to do covers of the opening song "end begins" (
http://www.deezer.com/track/69085638), and i can't seem to find the right (unique) tempo (even when adjusting up to -0,5/ +0,5 BPM and making sure my clic falls on the first beat when listening to the song) for the song.
A friend of mine did a custom made tempo track for me for this song and cubase, and it sounds quite spot-on, but when i consider/look at it (screenshot :
http://www.dropbox.com/s/6kv20l4b31j69rt/EarthCrisisTempoMapCubase.jpg) it doesn't make sense that a band could have a such a tempo map to track to to begin with, and i come to the conclusion that it might have been tracked with no click...