Staff pick: the reissue
Remastered from the original tape, pressed at 180 g, and worth every penny of it.
The reissue nobody asked for turned out to be the record of the year
A forgotten 1974 session, rescued from a house clearance, remastered from the only surviving quarter-inch tape, and quietly better than anything else released this month.
Five under a tenner
The best of what came in from the weekend’s house clearances and trade-ins.
Interview: the mastering engineer
Why loud is not the same as good, and what actually changes on a vinyl cut.
