 The production process for Fantasy Black Channel gathered pace around December 2007 . Late of the Pier usually proceeded by taking bedroom recordings into the studio , where they were refined by Alkan into " a more presentable package " . They tried unconventional techniques in the style of avant garde producer Joe Meek during the live studio recording sessions , including stamping in baths and <unk> guitars through air vents . When tracks were mixed after being recorded , the band members , Alkan , and engineer Jimmy Robertson worked in tandem and unanimously decided when a track had finished undergoing the studio effects process . No songs changed after this point , even when one of the parties had further ideas . At the time , in an interview with the band , Stuart Turnbull of the BBC Collective indicated that Alkan managed to " channel Late of the Pier 's sonic attack into something more focused yet still undeniably different " . 
