New Jethro Tull album spring 2023

[marpow]

RökFlöte deluxe from Importcds in perfect condition

Mine arrived yesterday from Amazon, giant box, two plastic air bubbles and one 3/4" dent at top right side.
Oh well.

 

[JediJoker]

Mine arrived yesterday from Amazon, giant box, two plastic air bubbles and one 3/4" dent at top right side.
Oh well.

Direct from Amazon? You should be able to exchange for a new copy if you left it in the shrink. No guarantee the next copy won't also get damaged in shipping, though...

 

[marpow]

Direct from Amazon? You should be able to exchange for a new copy if you left it in the shrink. No guarantee the next copy won't also get damaged in shipping, though...

Yeah, I know, but in my collection that have arrived pristine I've dropped a few and dented, I read sometimes, rip all the time, and put in a closet.
In regards to your statement, when I have done that with Amazon the second package always has been better than the first.

 

[JohnN]

https://en.as.com/latest_news/jethr...and-cheating-in-football-n/?omnil=resrelrecom

 

[JohnN]

https://www.loudersound.com/news/are-jethro-tull-headed-back-to-the-uk-top-10

 

[marpow]

I finished my first listen of the Atmos version only, will listen again.
Coming from a 1/2 Danish family, the other half Irish, I really appreciate the theme of this new work.
Will likely listen to the 5.1 in the car and the stereos.
The book with liner notes was super good reading, Ian is very descriptive and really lets you know everything. The written interview with Bruce Soord was very good.
Still have more to explore, but overall this is an excellent piece of art and music.
No comparisons, no looking back.

 

[JohnN]

https://jethrotull.proboards.com/post/93245/thread

 

[JohnN]

https://rockcellarmagazine.com/jeth...-anderson-rokflote-new-album-norse-mythology/

 

[Q4Fan]

I just received my copy and after the first listen it's not bad. I will listen a few more times before deciding.
It's obviously not like Warchild or Too Old to Rock and Roll, but so be it.

 

[JohnN]

https://www.loudersound.com/features/ian-anderson-jethro-tull-rokflote-interview

 

[JohnN]

Also from RökFlöte’s opening track, there’s a sense of Anderson’s sidemen as hired guns instead of partners in music-making. Here and throughout the album, I felt frustrated on behalf of guitarist Joe Parrish-James. So often on so many tracks, he launches into a guitar solo with a concept far more modern than Anderson’s – understandable, given that he was born nearly fifty years after the bandleader – but, only a few notes in, his guitar line is immediately chained to a composed harmony part, and any flight of creativity is immediately grounded. I found myself repeatedly yelling, “Let the dude play!”
https://wildhunt.org/2023/05/jethro-tulls-regressive-rock-raganarok.html

 

[jimfisheye]

This just sounds glaringly unmixed!

I initially heard the stereo mix before discovering the 12 channel. Thought it was an unfortunate crushed stereo copy version (like you still get often these days). I was looking forward to hearing the "real version" then when I discovered they did a 12 channel mix! This might be even less together than the stereo copy unfortunately.

Weird radio voice over style on some of the vocals with his voice awkwardly dry and loud in center channel and the music compressed and dimmed as background. Other wired moments where the vocal switches between the front L/R pair and center at different levels in each. Sounds unintentional. This is awkward for even a rough mix. Kind of a throw away vibe especially with the back catalog setting the bar from the original mixes to the Wilson remixes. This is just botched! Too bad too because it sounds like some actually interesting material for a change.