I got mine the other day and listened with the video playing last night. Great fun. Looking forward to giving it a future spin with the TV off so I can concentrate on the sounds. Hey, I'm a guy. One thing at a time.
Awesome bits:
1. Fidelity.
2. Surround mix is as you'd expect.
3. Music: I'd never heard these guys until The Power and the Glory got surroundified. Ain't no band like 'em. One of a kind.
4. Video: Superb work on the video content as per the other GG releases. Tons of work would have gone into these. Other bands with way more money should take note. They could even employ the Shulmans to do it cos they're clearly capable of a huge range of illustrative/photographic/animation styles.
5. Full stereo albums on the BD too.
Less than ideal (but doesn't really matter):
1. Packaging. It's cardboard. Although the cardboard arrived unscathed, one of the plastic disc trays was cracked. If packaging was standardised, I could replace it with a typical double CD case, Super Jewel Box or BD case.
2. The centre part that holds the disc was clinging on for dear life. It was a struggle to free the CD! I've had one of these digipack centre plastic bits expand and crack a disc before, so I always rescue discs from this "deluxe" crapackaging. All easily avoidable if tried and true cases are used. Both discs are in slim cases now though, so it's not a major.
3. Typo in one of the lyrics ("succesful", I think). Whoops! Again, not a major. I have trouble switching off the "looking for mistakes" part of brain that's in use for my job.
Bottom line: Another awesome GG/SW release. I say buy!
