No major wooshing to speak of. Being coloured the surface noise is probably a touch higher than a well pressed black vinyl but it's within acceptable levels, on my copy at least.
Somebody like me just opens up Unveils itself A little stark when Morning Train starts The choral backing resurrects it - but please a little less on the Indian embellishmensts
Agree with this, and Byrne is such an obvious influence musically, so much so that they made a record together. I think they may even collaborate again some day. It's just that Annie takes the Bowie approach of radically changing her style and the "persona" from which she writes her music every 2-3 years. Like a lot of successful artists, she draws different things from past icons and puts them in her own blender.
Just bought this on CD & think it is a really good album. She has gone under my radar this far so will explore her back catalogue, where next?
That sucks. Very nearly cancelled my bronze to get the black smoke version too, glad I didn't now. Hope your replacement's better.
i picked up the US indie black smoke version at my local store friday , i LOVE this album , the songs , the cool production & i have to say this pressing ups my dwindling faith in Vinyl pressings , best i've bought in a while , flat , dead quiet & a joy to spin , certainly worth owning ...... my only gripe is no download code .
No download code in the EU clear vinyl variant either, same with Mass Seduction. But her eponymous LP had one and that was on Loma Vista. Regarding the clear vinyl itself, it was a little noisy in parts, nothing too bad but hoping a clean will sort it out.
Her run from Actor/Strange Mercy/St. Vincent is her best, IMO. Marry Me (her debut) has some good tracks but it's still very much Annie trying to find her own sound. Masseduction was a step down from her peak (thus far) and more purely in the "pop" vein, though it has its merits as well (its stripped down, reimagined counterpart, MassEducation, is a nice alternative). Love This Giant, her collab album with David Byrne, is fun but I struggle to think of any real standouts from it.
Careful guys, the EU black vinyl sounds like it has a brush running through some of the tracks on the first version of this I bought, got another and half way through side one, so far okay, brush sound there at the beginning of the album but is gone now. had to clean it as soon as I opened it. Odd… EU versions seem to be a bit miss more than hit generally no?
I've been experiencing more issues with EU releases this past year (e.g. John Lennon's Gimme Some Truth, Plastic Ono Band, Amy Winhouse Live At BBC), they've been a bit sloppier lately. I half-expected it to be the case for Czech Republic pressings, but also noticed it for German ones. Basically anything that came with a printed inner would have paper dust stuck in the grooves and the first tracks would skip like crazy until you wet cleaned the record. Haven't encountered the brush sound issue though...
I had the same thing! Wait til you get the penultimate track on side one, that’s when it was worst (“Live in the Dream”). I’m returning it and getting a US pressing.
Foking hell... I've had that very discussion with a friend yesterday because I ordered the VMP version - as non member. Their EU postage is pretty reasonable and all in all I'm paying like 15€ more. Glad I did this!
The CD arrived yesterday, gave it a first listen this morning. I think it hangs together better as an album than the individual preview tracks would have suggested - more than the sum of its parts, while Masseduction was arguably less than the sum of its parts. Only track I'm unsure about is the Sheena Easton subversion - I guess John Peel would have liked it! It's got as much to do with the 1970s as The Mikado has to do with Japan, though. A disguise to let her talk about the present, a proxy for personal issues. Slightly annoying thing - some of the humming transitions between songs get their own tracks on the CD, which makes it hard to reliably pick the right track. Given as this seems best digested as an album, that's not the end of the world.
Minor gripe, but I kinda thought if you buy directly from the artist, you might get the product closer to release date than one week later, and that is the estimated delivery.
There’s a lot of musical “quoting” on this album. Someone mentioned the sheen easton song. And Down and Out Downtown, the verse melody, reminds me a lot of The Cars’ Drive.
It could be intentional in some places, some of her lyrics especially off the leadoff single directly referenced other artists
Oh, I think it is intentional, didn’t she say something in interviews like this album was about the music of her youth? Anyway, I don’t mind at all, the album is really growing on me.
The Sheena Easton riposte has a co-write credit from the original songwriter of 9 to 5 (Morning Train), so that one's above board. Pretty weird choice, but if you read the lyrics of the original it definitely needed a bit of subversion!
It reminds me quite a bit of Beck's Midnite Vultures, both in terms of overall aesthetic but also how it fits into her relative career to date.
Purchased the Indie stores clear vinyl at the weekend & its been on heavy rotation ever since. No noticeable surface noise on my (modest) setup. nice, flat & quiet vinyl. One of the best releases (so far) of 2021, imo.
I read an interview where she said she wrote the song and knew it sounded familiar but didn’t know why at first, then realised that the song was the same as 9 to 5.
