Arlo Parks – Collapsed In Sunbeams

Quite apart from the crackle and pops, I think this album is mixed /mastered way too LOUD! I wonder if this is so that it sounds ok when streamed onto typical devices. I say this because I found the music is almost unlistenable on vinyl, everything jumps at you, which makes me feel quite edgy. However I quite like the way it sounds on Spotify coming out of the phono jack of my PC and sent to my system that way.

My copy sounds very good! Very wide and deep. Can't hear any kind of noise.

Do the the two variations of red sound different? I have the brigther red and I was surprised it sounds good, after reading all these commentaries.

Terrible mastering. A shame. Seems to be a common problem with all vinyl releases. If someone is sure that this is not the case, write which release escaped this. Hope only for future remastering

Really nice pressing, little surface noise and amazing album, however mine is a lot closer to a Target red colour than the “deep red” described on the sticker.

Awesome album. Very bad pressing, mine has a skip on Too Good at the very spot every time, completely unavoidable, anyone else?

Just bought this and it’s an awesome pressing - for people reporting surface noise it’s intentionally there on a number of tracks including Eugene and Bluish (just compare it to the digital version).

Excellent sounding copy, great packaging and overall quality. No complaints. 👌 Glad to finally own this record, one of the best albums 2021.

the sound of the intro poem is pretty distorted (it is in digital as well), but otherwise my copy sounds very nice - at least for a contemporary pop record. I am careful with GZ pressings, but in this case I am very satisfied.

This might be my favourite new album of 2021, and not surprised it recently won the Mercury Prize. Count me among those with a bad pressing of this. Also my copy is not on deep or semi-opaque red (as shown in this listing) it’s a pretty standard bright candy red. Maybe that’s one of the reasons there’s such split opinion on this pressing? Black Dog has surface noise throughout (as does most of side A lots of pops), it’s almost unlistenable.