Just listened to the Dolby Atmos in 7.2.4. Outstanding! It's already a multi-layered, multi-volumed album, but
Wilson's take not only expands it, but also heightens the volume differences, and in physical placement ways that come closer
as it gets louder. If you are familiar with the album, you know what that can do.
Muir's work really shines here, and I heard bits I was never aware of. My familiarity with the album was jarred
by an abrupt guitar lick to "Book of Saturday," but it worked, and the whole piece is gorgeous. "Exiles"
too benefited from what seems to have been a slower and way more drawn out beginning.
"Easy Money" has easily been my favorite tune of these, and delivers. In the "Talking Drum" I didn't notice the drums being any softer as I've read here, at least in the sense they were never really very present. When I first heard the album, I thought it was a thow-away track, but in retrospect it gave Bruford and Muir a moment. Wilson had fun with the finale, "LTIA, part 2," in an ABBEY ROAD sort of way, with the sound bouncing around at the end, and added a bit not on the original LTIA.
I rarely give 10s, but this one -- in a matching shell n' sleeve like the earlier series, and good bargain to boot --
deserves it. My go-to format for an album I actually listen to from time to time.