Listening and listening and listening

I got the first of four tracks for the Nuts + Berries EP back from West West Side Music. Their engineers are wizards. It is louder and bassier than I had expected. I’m intrigued. I’ve listened to it on four different stereos to see how it sounds. It sounds immaculate on my Sony golf balls and pretty good in my car. This thing is very bass-heavy. I compared it to tracks by Bjork and Kanye West and it’s bassier than any of that stuff. I’ve asked the mastering engineer to make a less bassy version I can compare it to. I feel like a wuss asking to have the bass turned down on my electronic music EP but it might be what it needs.
This is a little like writing a novel and then spending days looking at a galley copy and trying to decide whether the font is OK. I’m driving myself a little nuts.