Reviews of this album abound as it is often found at or near the top of the 2019 most wanted list. Not really being a DLR fan I listened by streaming first: it took me by surprise. I liked it so much I decided to invest in a vinyl copy. This is DLR on the up. So do you want a vinyl copy?
Both pressings of my 2 LP copy are very clean and flat as they should be. I don’t think the sound is special compared to my other 2018 or 2019 vinyl tho it does allow things to focus on the vocals and is easy on the ear.
My pet peeve (minus one star) is the vinyl packaging. The double album gatefold has no lyrics on the inside nor on the inner sleeves (noted also by a German reviewer headlining "Super Platte aber ohne Songtexte!" or "Super record but without lyrics!"). All you get is a bunch of credits for each track. Duh. Two square feet of gatefold space wasted.
You'll need to replace the inner sleeves. They are made of card that is fibrous on the inside. They are a stupidly tight for the LPs so you have to almost shake the disks out as you can’t get your hand in sufficiently to guide the disks out Echoing another reviewer, why do record producers keep doing this?
The inner sleeve art is poor (maybe it means something - I don’t care) and the lyrics aren’t here either. I think the album designers took a holiday.
On the upside the included “Sound of Vinyl” download voucher is for a zip of lossless WAV files (639MB download). Brilliant – CD quality files that are easily integrated into a media library for home streaming or transcoded as needed. If that’s too much then Amazon’s complementary mp3 download may be all you need when away from your vinyl or online streams.