Tame Impala – Currents

Listened to this pressing allot but now listened to this for the first time with my new Nagaoka MP-500 cartridge and I can say this sounds very good indeed.
Allot of detail and nice stereo separation with some minor background noise in the vinyl.

got this used , no defects on the grooves! pretty solid pressing compared to the Europe one

Picked this up sealed from a local record store that had it preowned for a reasonable price considering how great this pressing sounds. Crystal clear sound and it’s such a nice pressing, slightly marbled and matches the album so well. Glad I picked it up for sure!

Great quality

Remove the 10 word feature . Z z z z

Perfect the whole way through. Kevin is ridiculous, and this is the best album he’s done this far

I'd give it ten stars if I could. One of my favorite records, ever. Sounds SUPER clean, no pops, TOP quality.

Beautiful drums, great synths, an incredible number of layers of vocals that canonically melt and harmonize with each other, very personal lyrics that feel very real and authentic at all times, but the lyrics are never too personal, they remain so superficial that everyone, in a way can make a personal connection with their own experiences and without ever becoming too intimate. The album flows very well, amazingly good sequencing and pacing of the album and the songs. Kevin Parker mixes the most diverse styles and sounds from all possible genres, throws them together and creates something completely new, which at the same time always has the property of being suitable for the charts. Each song has a very unusual and unpredictable song structure which definitely increases the replayability and is very engaging and captivating, especially for the first few listens. It's really exciting and with every song you want to know how it develops until it finally reaches its climax. Every chorus feels really epochal and epic and has instant catchy quality. Even if Kevin Parker experiments a lot with sounds and creates an undefinable sound, the album feels very coherent and consistent and has a clearly recognizable sound that runs through all songs. For me one of the most quintessential albums of our time and definitely an album that will be looked back on even in a few decades.
The gatefold cover looks great, which is of course due to the incredible album cover plus the additional artwork. Unfortunately, the inner sleeves are not lined and both discs were not plane for me. However, vinyl is center and center pressed. I like the Vinyl Master very much, it sounds very open and bright.

Why are people listing for sale, newly pressed reissues here? STOP!!! It's NOT a 2015 1st pressing!

I can see why people would want to buy this for the sake of variant/discography collecting, but the aftermarket prices are simply not worth it if you're one to care about sound quality. The pressing sounds average at best, although to my ears, I notice a lot of tracks suffer from "digital noise" and compression that causes the actual music to sound crackly and distorted during the louder parts of most songs. It also seems to have generated a lot of surface noise in those climatic sections on my used copy, although it probably means I just have to give it a proper series of wet cleans.

Beautiful drums, great synths, an incredible number of layers of vocals that canonically melt and harmonize with each other, very personal lyrics that feel very real and authentic at all times, but the lyrics are never too personal, they remain so superficial that everyone, in a way can make a personal connection with their own experiences and without ever becoming too intimate. The album flows very well, amazingly good sequencing and pacing of the album and the songs. Kevin Parker mixes the most diverse styles and sounds from all possible genres, throws them together and creates something completely new, which at the same time always has the property of being suitable for the charts. Each song has a very unusual and unpredictable song structure which definitely increases the replayability and is very engaging and captivating, especially for the first few listens. It's really exciting and with every song you want to know how it develops until it finally reaches its climax. Every chorus feels really epochal and epic and has instant catchy quality. Even if Kevin Parker experiments a lot with sounds and creates an undefinable sound, the album feels very coherent and consistent and has a clearly recognizable sound that runs through all songs. For me one of the most quintessential albums of our time and definitely an album that will be looked back on even in a few decades.

Packaging is disappointing though. Comes in a cheap cardboard sleeve that badly scratched my CD. One of my CD players woudln't even read the first few songs even on the first listen. Definitely recommend picking up the vinyl instead.