Easy Listening or Punk?

Been chatting to the other band members about the mixes from the recording studio.  They aren’t very good.  Yes we’ve got the instruments and vocals all laid down, but the mix has managed to make the songs all completely void of life.  The vocals are fine, I’d even say that they have done a good job on them, unfortunately you can’t hear anything else.  The drums, bass, guitar and keyboards are all there somewhere, but it’s just a quietish noise in the background.  Not really punk at all, in fact I’d go as far as to say that the studio have managed to make our lively, noisy edgy punk songs easy listening!  Somebody at a party suggested that this might be interesting.  Interesting yes, but any good, or right, no.  If the songs were well known then this easy listening version of them could be a bit of fun, but unfortunately they aren’t and I don’t want to promote ourselves as a not very good easy listening band.  So we will be sending the mixes back to the studio, thanking them kindly for their hard work, but informing them that more work needs to be done, to make the instruments louder, to separate them out from the bland sound and to give them back some edge and life, so they sound like punk!