There’s nothing like hearing Neil Young in
analog. Maintaining a nearly unprecedented
level of quality control, the iconic artist has
forever prized vinyl. His late 60s and 70s
studio and archival records establish an
inimitable precedent for performance and
sound. Cut from the original master tapes
and pressed at Pallas, they take their place
as some of the best-sounding LPs made.
Meanwhile, 2015’s The Monsanto Years rocks.
JOE JACKSON
Look Sharp!
Everybody Knows This
Is Nowhere
180g LP $36.99 LDY8671
After the Gold Rush
LP $22.99 LDY03
180g LP $36.99 LDY78664
Harvest
LP $34.99 LDY04
180g LP $46.99 LDY8657
Official Release Series 5-8
The Monsanto Years
180g 4LP box set
180g 2LP
$149.99 LDY43556
36.99 LDY26801
Is she really going out with him?
Find out with absolute certainty
on Intervention’s all-analog reissue
of this 1979 new-wave benchmark,
mastered by Kevin Gray at
Cohearent Audio and pressed at
RTI. The jacket even restores the
debossed finish of the first A&M
U.K. pressing. Talk about looking—
and sounding—sharp!
180g LP
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Live at Massey Hall
180g LP
180g 2LP
$36.99 LDY9999
$29.99 LDY2070
Sugar Mountain: Live at
the Canterbury House
180g 2LP $49.99 LDY3968
Bluenote Cafe
Greatest Hits
4LP box set
180g 2LP
$89.99 LDY26115
$49.99 LDY2051
180g 45RPM 2LP
My Morning Jacket ends a fouryear hiatus with an album tied to
the natural surroundings where it
was recorded. A fantastic-sounding
45RPM pressing, The Waterfall finds
the ensemble embracing classic-rock
roots and leader Jim James taking
advantage of his soaring falsetto.
A companion piece to the feature
film of the same name and the prize
souvenir of the former Pink Floyd
member’s 2010-2013 tour, Roger
Waters The Wall brings one of the
most epic live productions ever
staged to life in grand-scale analog.
Backed by an 11-piece ensemble,
Waters sounds utterly unstoppable.
180g 45RPM 2LP
$49.99 LDW54115
This Abbey Road-approved reissue
of Band on the Run is the choice
analog version of Macca’s peak solo
achievement. The 1973 set contains
his humorous response to John
Lennon’s “How Do You Sleep?,”
surges with consistently excellent
melodies, and goes over the top
with elaborate production.
$31.99 LDG32914
$34.99 LDM5661
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BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS
Blood, Sweat & Tears
180g 45RPM 2LP
$54.99 LORG133
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GRATEFUL DEAD
One from the Vault
Three from the Vault
3LP
3LP
180g 4LP
$59.99 LDG0714
$79.99 LDG60912
$64.99 LDG5531
Two from the Vault
Europe ’72
3LP
180g 3LP
The Best of the
Grateful Dead
Europe ’72 Volume 2
$84.99
$49.99
LDG60813
LDG5892
180g 2LP
$34.99
LDG54659
$21.99 LDM91922
$89.99 LDM15345
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LSPC3576
$49.99 LRR2513
Band on the Run
180g 2LP
180g import LP
$34.99
200g 45RPM 2LP
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PAUL MCCARTNEY
Pink Floyd’s guitar master returns.
Mastered by James Guthrie and Joel
Plante, this gatefold vinyl edition of
David Gilmour’s fourth studio outing
pairs him with writer Polly Samson for
a sonic adventure that bounces from
French railway stations to Paradise
Lost-inspired narratives. Includes 16page photo/lyric booklet.
Amigos
SACD
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DAVID GILMOUR Rattle That Lock
SANTANA
$54.99 LORG194
$29.99 CORGSA0194
180g 45RPM 2LP
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Meticulously recorded at Skywalker
Sound by Reference Recordings’
Keith Johnson, and half-speed
mastered by Paul Stubblebine,
Doug MacLeod’s new Exactly Like
This is an audiophile spectacular.
You’ll hear every detail of his sixand twelve-string guitars, and be
pulled in by his soulful vocals and
gripping storytelling.
180g 45RPM 2LP + 7”
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LP
$54.99 LIMP6017-45
Exactly Like This
MY MORNING JACKET The Waterfall
Roger Waters The Wall
180g 3LP
Cut by Kevin Gray from the original
analog tapes and pressed at RTI,
Impex’s 45RPM 2LP presents
Harry Belafonte’s diverse 1962
RCA album in thoroughly realistic
sound. The nuances, dimensions,
and presence captured by original
producer Bob Simpson on this bigstage recording boggle the mind.
Jeff Buckley’s mystical,
scintillating Grace harnesses doowop, pop, rock, Indian, jazz, and
folk idioms and then reshapes
them into an elegant aural
concoction that has no likeness.
ORG’s reissues belong on bestsounding audiophile software lists.
The immediacy, presence, airiness,
tones, and balances are that good.
DOUG MACLEOD
Grace
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ROGER WATERS
JEFF BUCKLEY
The Many Moods of Harry
Belafonte
$34.99 LINT005 ((