Bei Pitchfork gibt es einen sehr guten, lesenswerten Text zum Album, der seine Qualitäten beschreibt (und leichte Vorbehalte gegen das Remastering der CD äußert).
Nitsuh AbebeThis reissue does what reissues have to do these days, raising the volume to compete with all the over-compressed new stuff on your mp3 player. Someone’s clearly taken care with the process, making sure not to spoil the wide dynamics of this music, but this kind of re-master isn’t the best fit for the open-room feel of the original: I’d be lying if I said the crystalline brambles of guitar in these songs didn’t suffer a little from being flattened out like this. (Steve Shelley’s busy, subtle drumming gets a particularly raw deal.) Mild audiophiles – or anyone attached to the feel of the original CD and LP issues – might want to spring for the vinyl re-release.
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