Thanks people.
I'm glad you like it
No, there was no click track or any post quantization. We just have a bass player that is rock solid and drives us on.
The synth swoops are just that, noisy synth with me turning the filter frequency knob.
The vocals are by intention heavily saturated. There are three instances of JS:Saturation in series on the vocal track, probably that is what is heard as distortion. The singer likes it that way