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Schubert: Schwanengesang - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau      (11 of 14 found this review helpful)
  February 17, 2015

It has repeatedly been claimed by some on this site that it's pointless to release analogue-tape era stereo music on SACD, remastered via DSD flat transfer, since all the content on those tapes could easily be contained on a redbook CD without loss. Buying the often not-cheap SACDs is just to fall ... more
Steely Dan: Aja      (12 of 12 found this review helpful)
  February 4, 2015

I have been listening to this version of Aja since it was released in 2010, and so far hesitated writing something about it here. But the many contradicting reviews posted here made me decide to put my two cents worth in, and it goes without saying, this review remains wholly my subjective point of ... more
  January 30, 2015

Shostakovich's last two string quartets, written at short intervals, with the 15th written a year and a half before he died, are clearly also late works in the aesthetic sense; they might not be as radically modernist as his 12th, but they are challenging works nonetheless, both thematically as well ... more
The Plastic People of the Universe: Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned        (5 of 5 found this review helpful)
  January 18, 2015

I'm sure this is one of the most outré albums issued on SACD, at least it is the most underground SACD I have in possession. The Czech branch of EMI should be applauded for issuing this disc of relatively obscure music at all (although in the Czech Republic, it probably isn't that obscure, certainly ... more
Pixies: Trompe Le Monde        (2 of 2 found this review helpful)
  November 10, 2013

While certainly not one of the defining albums of the early 90s American guitar indie scene (in my view, that honour should go to either Polvo's "Today's Active Lifestyles", Trumans Water's "Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox and Ass", Drive Like Jehu's "Yank Crime" or Pavement's "Slanted & Enchanted", all ... more

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