The Magnetic Fields – The Charm Of The Highway Strip

This sounds amazing! Been listening to these guys forever and never on vinyl until right now! It's so much more!!! This was always one of my favorites from them too so very happy! Merritt's voice comes through so powerfully especially on Sunset City WOW!

Wow this sounds so 3dimensional and has no right sounding this good for such a cheap record. Merge vinyl pressings have a tendency to make already great albums even greater and this is no exception. Beautiful.

Completely agree with the comments about this pressing being very high quality.

Really a fantastic pressing. If the production of the album itself is to your taste, you won't regret picking this pressing up.

An excellent album, easily in the band's top 3. "69 Love Songs" is their breakout, but this is where everything clicks, the band is fully formed with Merritt's groggy vocals, depressing and subversive lyrics and layers of vintage synths. Ostensibly a riff on country-western music, it really feels more like synth rock record about longing and loneliness.

This variant is a straight repress of the earlier Merge issue, cut at Golden, pressed at RTI. It sounds quite good, but unlikely sourced from anything different than the CD was. I picked up a copy of this to replace my earlier pressing which was scratched out of the package. This sounds identical, and doesn't have any issues with surface noise despite the color.

Setup: SL-1700 / ATVM95ML / MoFi StudioPhono / SX-750 / ADS 500

Just picked this up new in a shop, was pleased to see John Golden in the deadwax and it plays nice and quiet as you’d expect from RTI presses from this era. Perfect representation of the album on vinyl

Great vinyl pressing and mix. I recommend grabbing this one before it's gone.