Beach House ‎– 7

Anyone else have a problem with excessive surface noise on this album ?

Saw 3 or 4 copies of this. Each one had non-fill or stitching (RTI fumbling its QC), so they’re intermitteny noisy on top of having a very narrow dynamic range due to cramming 48 minutes into two sides. Gave up and passed on this, sounds significantly better on lossless.

Pretty good pressing... a bit muddy, but very lush in the lower ends. Seems to be mastered a bit low. Moderate amount of background noise. I think this album would've benefited from a double LP pressing rather than packing so much on one disc.

I live in the US and my local record shop has this for $58.99 lol.

A few pops on the first side but otherwise quite decent. Very thick sounding pressing.

I purchased the yellow vinyl loser edition. The vinyl's very nice appearance-wise, and the cover art of the album is just beautiful (Probably my favorite beach house album art). The album also came with a piece of very interesting art work and a lyrics sheet, both quite wonderful additions. The sleeve the actual vinyl came in was not the standard paper sleeve, instead it was a custom sleeve (thank goodness!). The actual vinyl plays fine, with the only problem being the sound quality can come off as quiet at certain points in the album, whereas other songs feel full and loud. The music itself is composed of stellar alternative, electric rock songs, and ends up giving a really full and fun listen. Definitely recommend the album and this pressing is sufficient for my beach house needs.

One of the few records that sounds better than its digital counterparts. Sounds so full on vinyl.

My copy of this has a lot of background noise throughout the entire record...

mine is a bit quiet but that's really the only issue, doesn't affect my enjoyment really. also the packaging is fantastic.