Muse ‎– Black Holes & Revelations

Sounds better than the OOS and Absolution reissues, but still sounds muddy and lacks precision

Wow supermassive black hole is sounds incredible. I've not heard bass this clear and deep on my vinyl setup yet...really impressed, the sound effects echo into infinite soundscapes. Knights of Cydonia is very epic as well as the piano on Map of a Problematique. Typically I would wait till the end of the album till I finish my review but I see this is only going to get better as the album plays on. I really like the Drones album but feel this is the most solid album by The Muse in my collection thus far. I like their attempts on other albums to tell a story in parts like pink Floyd but if they just did this flowing artistry in a sweet order of anticipation and never letting down on the next track then their albums wouldn't be such erratic releases. The quality of the vinyl is stellar, disagree if you like but I own coil/nine inch nails recoiled splatter edition...I know what bad sounds like.

My pressing is in perfect condition and sounds great. There is no surface noise on it either.

To be honest, I'm quite surprised by this album. Compared to reissues of Origin of symmetry and Absolution - this one sounds pretty good to me. It's not the top class level, but noticeably better than two previous ones.

Great album, but mastering is totally f-ed up. Flat, without life.

Notable surface noise during the quieter parts and definitely needed a clean upon opening. But the loudness war has won with this record, and thus you don't really have to worry about it that much.

What this album really needs is an audiophile remastering, pressed on 200g of black wax (perhaps with blue/ orange variants) in a beautiful gatefold sleeve. I want to see that martian landscape really jump out at me!

I recently ordered it and Unfortunately I agree with the mitigated opinion... This LP sounds poor...
Great Album but bad LP...for me...

I don't mean to break the party here but I bought this exact release in 2013 in Canada and it sounds actually pretty good. Maybe I'm damn lucky. My copy is perfectly flat and shows no distortion nor hissing. There are no crackling sounds and no surface noise. Ok it does not sound better than my CD version (equally congested and compressed) so maybe it is not worth the purchase if you already own one but I must say that mine is a good quality pressing. Sorry.