9/14/2023 0 Comments Vinyl me please metal bladeJune Country Track: Merle Haggard – I’m A Lonesome Fugitive Bonus goodies include a listening guide from VMP staff which provides a great deal of context for the album’s significance. Overall: a positive first impression of the service. Remember folks: proper vinyl care is absolutely necessary in this hobby for longevity and protecting the investment, but the nature of the beast is such that demanding absolute perfection and clean sound on extravagantly colored records across potentially thousands of copies is just unrealistic, and a country album at the very least could stand to be a little dirty on playback. A trip through the spin-clean knockoff would leave some surface noise and popping sounds remaining. The album itself was filthy on arrival, with plenty of debris brushed off in its initial care. Just look at this thing it’s easily one of the prettiest variants we own between us collectively. VMP’s product designer is also killing it, as this pressing is so gorgeous that I didn’t even hesitate to spend this much for one month of a subscription service just to have a single LP. This one was advertised heavily on Facebook and triggered this excursion from two of us, completely independently and without planning, so here’s the first pro in the column for VMP: their marketing department is killing it. Metamodern Sounds In Country Music by Sturgill Simpson But if you want to hear an anarchist tackle ego death in the stylistic lineage of outlaw country, give this one a spin. I’m sensing some skepticism, but take our word for it: a website with the word heavy in its name twice must be obsessed with this album for a reason despite not being particularly heavy in its aesthetics. Simpson croons on the topic of drugs, psychology, and spirituality with production that pushes the otherwise straightforward country arrangements into the realm of weird psychedelic folk. The record is a more traditional approach to country music (read: not the post-9/11 pop-country you’ve likely been subjected to), with a psychedelic twist. May Country Track: Sturgill Simpson – Metamodern Sounds In Country MusicĢ016’s A Sailer’s Guide to Earth may have been the massive critical darling that landed him on the Grammys, but the preceding 2014 opus Metamodern Sounds In Country Music is what put Jackson, KY artist Sturgill Simpson on the map. Let’s finally see if VMP is worth the hype (and that $43 monthly price tag). For three months, fueled by the power of targeted advertising on social media, two Heavy Bloggers (Jimmy Rowe and Jordan Jerabek) jumped in on a high-profile colored pressing of Kentucky country artist Sturgill Simpson’s sophomore record Metamodern Sounds In Country Music and stuck around following the announcement of a special VMP pressing of The Mars Volta’s prog classic De-Loused In The Comatorium. Speaking of Vinyl Me, Please (henceforth VMP), we’ve long been watching from afar to see what this service can do, and finally decided to pull the plug. Amazon have recently thrown their hat into the ring, offering what they call “essential classics” each month, but compared to their competition, it doesn’t appear quite appealing just yet, at least compared to Vinyl Me, Please’s classics track. Some specialized record labels (including but not limited to Third Man and Church Road) are also offering their own services as well to dedicated fans. Vinyl Me, Please (not a sponsor) is perhaps the most widely known player in the field, with other well known services like Magnolia Record Club, Turntable Kitchen, and VNYL maintaining some share of the market and cultural capital in the hobby, with Gimme Metal offering a monthly vinyl service specifically for metal fans and recently featured classics from Amon Amarth and Yob. Vinyl clubs have been around for a minute, and seem to be proliferating wildly over recent years, keeping in step with (and contributing to) the rising demand and manufacturing-delay-plagued vinyl industry. With this growth came a variety of services seeking to capitalize, bridging music sharing and recommendation and subscription box services that have been wildly successful fads for niche markets. The resurgence in vinyl has been long discussed and documented, touched on both here and elsewhere.
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