Yeah they still do it even as of their most recent album, Tomorrow's Harvest:
"[the strings in Semena Mertvykh were] performed into a dissected VHS deck with the motor running super slowly, so you can hear all the pockmarks, the dropouts on the tape. It’s mono, too, which gives it something special. More people should record in mono these days." original article[0] and archive[1]
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Yeah they still do it even as of their most recent album, Tomorrow's Harvest:
"[the strings in Semena Mertvykh were] performed into a dissected VHS deck with the motor running super slowly, so you can hear all the pockmarks, the dropouts on the tape. It’s mono, too, which gives it something special. More people should record in mono these days." original article[0] and archive[1]
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/arts/music/tomorrows-harv...
[1] https://archive.is/H3ny1