Butthole Surfers – Locust Abortion Technician

I have sung the praises of these Latino Bugger Veil reissues to other collectors. Records were perfectly flat upon opening the seal, enclosed in audiophile quality plastic inner sleeves, and unlike many new vinyl releases as of late, no cleaning needed, it played beautifully right out of the sleeve. Well balanced stereo image, with no sibilance whatsoever, the audio chaos captured perfectly on this beautiful pressing. I've never had an OG pressing, but I can't imagine it sounding better than this.

This sounds great and the image quality seems to be a little better than the 2013 repress. Comes with a polylined sleeve too. I swear how can rice paper be better than these nice poly inners?

Apart from the fact this album is mental and amazingly experimental in every way possible, not horribly noisy when I got this second-hand.

However on my copy at least Human Cannonball has a significant amount of inner groove distortion on everything apart from the drums really, a lot of side 2 also suffers from overly-crispy vocals and guitars that are not present on the digital versions.

The mastering itself has no issues, sounds full and dynamic - with the IGD not sure if it was direct metal mastered, since it came in a plain paper inner and not a DMM one, although the labels have the red text.

Presentation: 3/5
Pressing (pops, skips): 3/5
Mastering (audio source): 4/5
Sleeve: Plain Paper Inner

Setup (turntable, stylus): AT-120XUSB, AT-VM95ML

Pressing is really clean and the olfactory hues are deafening.

Crazy genius. Sweatloaf and Kuntz are personal favorites, but they are all great. I couldn't convince anyone else of the genius though. Their loss.

Been reading the reviews of other releases on this reissue campaign and this too has been edited. The intro to Sweat Loaf prior to the Daddy what does regret mean has been cut drastically. It almost comes in straight away with the dialogue which is a real shame as the original intro and build up anticipated that question about regret. Been a while since I heard this so there may be more edits not aware of. Other than that sounds pretty compressed.

Best album intro ever ! ever ever ever ever ever

Sweat loaf and 22 going on 23 for the win
Unsurpassed and unequaled
Gibby for president

This is a Stone cold classic. Must be played at max volume.

If anyone out there has an insert please message me. Thanks word word