A sophisticated way of saying "we just cranked up the volume to death". Ever since the mid-1990s, music industry has been constantly increasing volumes of music to appeal to low-quality device users(eg. iPod) to trick they are listening to the improve version of the recording which, in reality, has been simply brickwalled.

when you've done something so cringe you can't stop replaying it in your head and it stops you from getting on with your every day life