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Selaws said:
Could you let me know how that Kawaida sounds once you've given it a listen to? Its one I completely missed on the August drop but it definitely intrigues me, there seems to be plenty of stock about as well.
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Will do. Might be a while, I’ve a backlog of about 50 at the moment, lol. Can’t recommend that Baldi/Gerycz and Ted Poor enough btw, been streaming them like crazy lately. Really weird that a pair from an indie rock band have made one of my favourite free jazz albums of the year.
 
Mather said:
Alright so Elliott Smith, mine is the indie blue version. Threw it on and within the first two songs got a couple a big pops and then it skipped, and I've never heard a record actually skip on my table before that wasn't caused by dirt or hairs on the vinyl so I figured it has to be dirt. So I cleaned it, which I should have done in the first place. And after the cleaning... this is a really nice press! The mastering is nice and crisp, I got through the entire first disc without a single pop and it sounds really nice! I will say that on the first track on mine there is a TINY amount of right channel crackle, like I mean TINY. I don't think a lot of systems would even would even pick it up, you have to keep in mind that my cart is just vicious for picking up ANY irregularities in presses. There is the possibility that other copies have more severe versions of this issue but on mine it's almost inaudible and it's only on the first track. Otherwise it's by far the best pressing of Elliott Smith I've had. I still find the mixing on his albums very odd, the fact that they almost never centre him in the mix and instead create the sonic imaging of there being like 5 different Elliott Smiths playing each song, it's very strange and most of his albums are mixed like this, but that's beside the point. I'm about to spin the second disc but so far this is a recommend from me. I paid $55 CAD for it. I don't think I would pay a whole lot more than that but it just depends on how much of a fan you are I suppose. Oh also both discs are dead flat.

But also keep in mind I had to clean it on a RCM in order to get this performance out of it. Without the cleaning it had some pops and a skip, although the skip played though with just a pop the second time I played through that section before I cleaned it. So if you don't have a spin clean or something more you might have a different experience than me.

I'll add my thoughts on the second disc live show in a little bit for anyone who cares.
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Thanks for this review. It helped convince me to pick up a copy of the indie blue version. While I was not at that particular Umbra Penumbra show, I did see Elliott play a number of tiny clubs here in Portland back in the day.
 
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