I seem to be in the minority here but in my opinion Veckatimest is one of the few essentials releases that actually deserves the label. This used to be a universally loved album. Not sure where all of this hate is coming from.
I don't "hate" it. I just didn't listen to it when it came out, and now that it's 2021 going back to it beyond my indie rock phase it's just 'meh'. If it was something I listened to at the time I'd probably be all over it (for example Return to Cookie Mountain).
Fair enough. I don’t see myself ever growing out of my indie rock phase.
Oh yeah, I love this record… Not enough to “upgrade” my perfectly fine original pressing but if I didn’t already own a copy and had faith that VMP could deliver a defect free pressing I would be in on this.I seem to be in the minority here but in my opinion Veckatimest is one of the few essentials releases that actually deserves the label. This used to be a universally loved album. Not sure where all of this hate is coming from.
Obviously the QC issues lately make a botched pressing seem very possible, but if they manage to get it right this time this looks like it’ll be the definitive version of a classic album……to me
I actually don’t have Veckatimest or Shields but I have heard the original copies plenty of times with friends throughout the years. I always thought that Grizzly Bear’s albums sounded great on vinyl so yeah I’m not getting the Essentials or the store drops since they probably won’t improve upon the originals. Plus you can get them all for pretty cheap if I’m not mistaken.
It's not an option with VMP, but I really like the Blue Valentine Soundtrack that Grizzly Bear did.
While I enjoy Horn Of Plenty it’s basically a Grizzly Bear album in name only, more of a Lo-fi Ed Droste solo album. Yellow House was their first album as an actual band incorporating Daniel Rossen, Chris Taylor, and Christopher Bear into the album production. The beautiful harmonies and exquisite instrumentation starts there. If you enjoy Veckatimest then Yellow House would be a good album to follow up with.
Sometimes prices increase when albums are bundled together, but then it's called anthology
I have an original Veckatimest as well and it sounds good but since it was almost definitely recorded digitally it can certainly be improved upon. With the new release being half speed remastered and 45rpm, it would take a pretty shitty mastering engineer to make it sound worse. My money is on it being a significant improvement. Buuuuuuuut we shall see.
They recorded it on tape. I remember it leaked before the official release and grizzly bear was kinda mad because they had spent so much time on the sound and details and the leak sounded like a lo-fi bedroom recording
Well well welllllll! I did not know that. Interesting. I guess we don’t know if it was mastered all analogue? Or do we???
I think Alchemy has the capacity to do an AAA release but I’m putting my money on a digital source. Even if Grizzly Bear recorded to tape, it was probably transferred to a high quality digital source for ease of mastering.
This is my guess as well. We will likely find out tomorrow!
I thought swaps are tomorrow at noon EST.
This is correct. If they waited until next Thursday, it'd literally fall on the last day of the month.
Makes sense. It feels like they’ve done “release days” on Tuesdays too though. Just seemed early, don’t remember the swap period being that long before.
