![]() ![]() Roger Waters’ bass is also somewhat fuller, but lacks some of the attack of the earlier pressing. The heartbeat opening “Speak to Me” feels more emphatic in the low frequencies, as does Nick Mason’s kick drum throughout. ![]() pressing of the album and more balanced in many ways, with a slightly less aggressive top end. The result is different from the original U.K. Guthrie and Plante have done such good work on digital releases of Pink Floyd’s catalog that Grundman almost certainly had something worthwhile to use for bringing this latest version to vinyl. The sticker affixed to the shrink wrap on the 2016 reissue of Dark Side of the Moon states it was “remastered from the original analogue tapes by James Guthrie, Joel Plante, and Bernie Grundman.” My guess is Guthrie and Plante remastered the recording in high-resolution digital and Grundman cut the LP from the digital file. The record would also be a strong component in a film about the nationwide growth of FM radio and death of AM. Music from this album would be a great soundtrack to this movie:Ī movie about the mid-1970s when rock music was growing in sales and cultural impact. ![]() Driving, cooking, sitting in my listening room with eyes closed. I would listen to this album while:ĭoing pretty much anything. My friends and I cruised around in our cars playing this one, usually on 8-track(!). No complaints there.Review By Joe Taylor When listening to this album I think of this band or music: The thick black 180-gram vinyl is dark and quiet. My pressing seems to be pretty well centered - its not perfect - but not displaying any negative impact on the music. “The Heinrich Maneuver” rocks madly on this pressing while the Tidal stream is bright and overly crispy, losing much of the midrange warmth. It really sounds amazing when the final snare drum march ends the song. I admit this may also be an effect of this music being run through my trusty Bellari tube pre-amplifier. The kick drum hits are punchier and the overall vibe of the music is tighter and more enjoyable on the vinyl than the purely digital presentation. Perhaps this effect is achieved by a certain extra tightening compression of the mix for the LP’s disc mastering (guessing here but it stands to reason…). It feels more like a band and less like disparate tracks playing in a digital mix. Listening back and forth between Tidal and the LP on the first song - “Pioneer To The Falls” - when the drums and bass kick after the moody solo intro, the overall presentation of this music is far stronger on the LP. The bass and midrange sounds warmer on this pressing than on the purely digital stream so the net effect is more appealing. It makes it less comfortable to listen to him at louder volumes even with this higher resolution presentation.Ĭuriously, while this element comes through on the vinyl pressing, it is not as in your face. If I have any problem with streaming this recording it is the gnawing digital edge I hear around singer Paul Banks’ voice. You don’t hear as much of this detailing on the 16-bit, 44.1 kHz CD quality stream. In general the Tidal stream for the high resolution version of Our Love To Admire sounds pretty solid with nice amplifier tones coming through on tracks like “The Scale” and “Pace Is The Trick.” “Wrecking Ball” also has a nice sense of room ambiance coming through on the introductory solo electric guitar parts (that is a production /compositional convention this band seems to play with a lot) I do recognize this might well be a reverb effect applied afterwards (many producers record parts “dry” and apply the effects afterwards in mixing which gives them more control over the sound ultimately). ![]() And while I was at it, I checked in on Tidal, finding the album now streaming there in 24-bit, 88 kHz resolution. Well, the price on this album seems to have come down a good 25-percent and I had some store credit to use at a favorite shop so I figured I’d check it out. And, since most places I saw the album being sold in at the time were asking nearly forty dollars, I decided to take a pass on it and just worked with the CD. I really wanted to review the album from an LP source but samples were not made available to the press (at least that is what I was told when I asked). Twitter Facebook Email Print LinkedIn Pinterest SMS WhatsAppĪt the end of 2017 I reviewed the 10th Anniversary CD reissue of Interpol’s hit album Our Love To Admire with mixed results (click here to read it). ![]()
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