Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good!

Petty good sound in my opinion. Sounds evenly mixed. I hear the bass, I hear the vocals. A couple pops on Side A, but I might have to run through it again

If you think this is brickwalled and not a clear, crisp, dynamic master, you need better equipment. When I was running a 2M Blue and Beyerdynamic headphones, my 2M had trouble tracking this one and it sounded so compressed and terrible — but with the Bronze cart and AT headphone, my copy sounds lifelike with an insane amount of clarity and depth. I’m honestly impressed considering this was pressed at the dreaded GZ Media. Stoked to have this in the collection — the mastering for vinyl is absolutely lovely.

Fluance RT85
Ortofon Concorde Music HiFi Bronze
Yamaha RX-V659
Dynaudio Contour 1.3 MKII
Audio-Technica AP-2000Ti

Mastering is excellent and compliments the album well. I hear no surface noise.

A culmination of pop excellence accompanied with a great pressing.
These pop songs are popping.
Get the record if you haven't - one of the 2023's finest pop materials.

As the notes say, some of these came signed and were not part of a bundle. That's the version I received (a black LP as well). And to clarify, it's not the clear plastic outer sleeve that is signed, but the actual LP jacket.

This sounds amazing. Artists need to take a note out of Jessie's book when it comes to cassette quality control.

This album is pure joy and a celebration of life and love. Every single track is a winner and that feels so good indeed

I just read the comments on the Lana Del Rey record, where almost everybody is upset with the pressing quality, and lots of people saying that this is *always* the case with pressings from GZ Media and that this company should be banned from making records as they have no idea what they're doing.

Now I'm reading the comments here where, while some are disappointed in the mastering, everybody seems ecstatic about the excellent pressing quality. Yet this is, too, pressed at GZ Media.

After reading the other comments section, I already made a mental note to not buy anything at the shop if I see a "made in Czech Republic" sticker on it. But after reading this section, maybe GZ Media aren't the problem? Or is it just hit and miss, whoever was working there that day?

Honestly this doesn’t sound as bad as people make it out to. It’s not amazing, and it’s certainly a little lackluster all around, but there’s no major distortion, and the record is clean and centered. I would also love a 2LP reissue sometime in the future, but seeing as that doesn’t seem to be on the horizon, this is an alright alternative!

Is anyone else’s copy scented? Mine has quite a lovely floral-esque scent, to the whole package, inside and out.