Stereolab – Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements

Clean, silent frisbees and perfectly balanced sound with that pinch of warmth. Better than the files. Competent packaging.

Great record, dismal mastering!

I've loved this record digitally for decades, but...listening just now, I spent most of it convinced that my stylus had picked up some novelty sized dust bunny all of a sudden (I checked afterwards, and it hadn't).

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Any idea if this is a good pressing Ie compared to the triple lp and the 2019 vinyl pressings?

Revisiting this album through this edition has been a joy. Maybe it's the remastered sound but I don't there being this much depth to their sound this early on! Some pretty illuminating liners too, spelling out the connection the Groop had at this point in their career with that Sonic Youth school of NY skronk guitar.

If you don’t mind fixing the off-center issue by enlarging the spindle hole, IMO this is the one to get. I initially bought the 2019 reissue but found it much too boomy, too polished and separated, as well as lacking song dynamics. Mastering that way works pretty well for the rest of their catalogue, but this album is a wall of distorted sound comparatively. It needs a rock-oriented mastering, which is exactly what this is. It retains the unified, slightly dingy sound that gives these songs their highest energy and excitement. The detail sounds higher than the remaster, but it’s more subtle and less separated. “Pack yr romantic mind” and “Crest” almost sound like a completely different mix (in a good way). The only metric I would say is improved on the 2019 is the stereo image, which is a good bit wider. Either way, this one is the keeper for me by a long shot.

Detail and realism are outstanding on this version. Dynamic and plenty to offer.

It took me such a long time to realize that the original version of Analogue Rock ended with a fade-out, and this remaster restored a proper outro...

Is this version off center on side C like the original black vinyl pressing?

Great pressing, but does anyone else have an off centered 2nd disc? Jenny Ondioline plays like a drunken sailor with how warpy it sounds but there's no visible warp on mine, just off centered. Strange. Anyone else have this problem?