Vinyl Reviews
The 50th anniversary reissue of Horses includes an all-analog cut of Smith’s 1975 debut and a second LP of outtakes. Few debuts are as striking and complete a statement of purpose as Horses, the first full-length from Patti Smith, released on Arista Records precisely 50 years and two days
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Bill Fay and Time of the Last Persecution are back on vinyl, plus three from the psychobilly originators. We’ve got two reviews today to kick off your week. First up are the two incredible albums Bill Fay recorded in the early ’70s, newly reissued by UK’s Proper Records.
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The Los-Angeles-by-way-of-Mississippi group’s two albums are back on vinyl. Eternity’s Children were never going to be superstars, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. Formed in the mid-’60s, the sunshine pop group became the talk of the club circuit in and around their stomping grounds of
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We’ve got a record review today for the last of our Rocktober titles: the Rhino Reserve edition of Warren Zevon’s 1978 album Excitable Boy. Before we get to that, this morning’s big vinyl news is that Universal Music has just entered the premium all-analog arena with a
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Vinyl reviews for the Stooges’ Fun House (Alternate Version), Rush’s The Albums 2002–2012 box set, and Faces’ Early Steps. It’s the final week for Rhino’s Rocktober series, and if you’ve been keeping tabs, you know it has already been a smorgasbord of vinyl reissues plundered
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Vinyl reviews for the sixth Official Release Series box and Rumah Sakit 25. We’ll get right into it today, with two vinyl reviews for you. I went long on the new Neil Young box set, which includes some of his most difficult-to-find albums back on vinyl. And Bob’s
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Vinyl reviews of Feels’ 20th anniversary edition and Heavy Combination, a comprehensive overview of a Kenyan musical legend. Did you see the Bruce Springsteen movie this weekend? I won’t spoil anything, but who would have guessed that such an important plot point would pivot around vinyl mastering? Speaking of
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Vinyl reviews of Fleetwood Mac’s Bare Trees; Mr. Bungle’s Disco Volante and California; Warren Zevon’s Mr. Bad Example, Learning to Flinch, and Mutineer; Ministry’s The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste and Psalm 69; and Jethro Tull’s Minstrel in the Gallery. Whew. More months
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Vinyl reviews of the Doors' Greatest Hits, Yes's 90125 (both in Rhino Reserve pressings), Morphine's Good, and Yes's Big Generator. By my count, 14* vinyl reissues from Warner labels are hitting the racks at independent record stores today (October 17), which means that
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1967’s Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. is cut directly from the master—for the very first time. It makes perfect sense that the Rhino High Fidelity series take on a Monkees album. No, really, it does. In the 1980s, Rhino Records made their bones on Monkees reissues, when
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Distortions is back on yellow vinyl, and the black vinyl repress of Blind is much improved. Today we’ve got two quick vinyl reviews of some recent represses. The Litter's Distortions is a garage-rock classic, and the Sundazed label has re-upped their original 2013 Kevin Gray mono cut
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A deluxe edition of MMJ’s Z and an audiophile pressing of Ornette! make their way to vinyl. Today at The Vinyl Cut, we've got My Morning Jacket and Ornette Coleman. Not together on the same album, of course. Can you imagine? That would be nuts. No, today