Shoegazing under the microscope, starring My Bloody Valentine and Ride
May 3, 2012, 8:32am
Chromewaves
Chromewaves
Steve Double Whenever an old/classic album is reissued these days - which is pretty much every day - it's inevitably advertised as having been remastered, and it's assumed that that's a good thing. And not unreasonably - when a lot of these albums were originally released on compact disc, they were poorly converted from analog to digital and could generally sound thin/quiet/uninspiring. But remastering is no guarantee of improvement - at best, things will sound incredibly better (the 20th anniversary redo of The Stone Roses' debut by original producer John Leckie is a revelation), [...]
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