Turn Me Up is a group devoted to a noble cause: bringing dynamic range back into music. The age of the CD was supposed to make music clearer and bring out details we couldn’t hear before. Alas, the idiots behind the bulk of the music these days (RIAA, I’m looking at you) are driven by this inane concept that louder is better.

Layers upon layers of compression leads to a waveform that looks like a jumbled mess and all nuances in the music are lost.

It’s sad, and it needs to stop. The wikipedia page linked from the site has a telling graphic. It’s the waveform of the song “Something” by the Beatles, on 4 successive remasterings: Abbey Road (1983), Abbey Road (1987), 1967-1970 (1993), and 1 (2000).

Something, by The Beatles

A couple of examples of musicians whose studio mastering seems to have avoided this technique, and it shows in how dynamic the music sounds:

Tally Hall: Good Day
Vampire Weekend: A-Punk

Now these are YouTube videos, not renowned for their audio clarity. But if you can, listen to high quality recordings, and you’ll hear it.