new Allison Krause & Robert Plant Pressing seems noisy

No, millercarbon is correct, they will all be like this. This was the problem with popular music decades ago. The noise is in the stampers. The company being used to do the pressing has a hygeine problem somewhere along the line. It takes meticulous shop keeping to get through all the processing without intruducing issues that cause noise. 

This is where digital comes into play. I assume you are talking about Raise the Roof. It is available in 24/96 digital. The thing is, This is Rounder Records who usually do an excellent job with their vinyl. I would see if they have a contact line and tell them what you have. See what they will do. I just had it out with Blue Note over a severely defective pressing. They kept sending me the same defective pressing over and over. 4 times in spite of my telling them they had to throw the whole batch away and start over. I gave up. It is like running into a concrete wall.

@millercarbon , Pressings in the 70's and 80's could just as bad or worse. With Warner, Columbia, RCA, Epic and Capital you could never be sure what you were going to get. Sometimes great, sometimes awful. Today at least you can identify a few companies that you get consistenly decent pressing. In the old days the only pressings you could be sure of were European classical discs and even some of the like DGG startedto suffer. This is what drove people to spend more on MoFi discs. I like vinyl but if I can get a properly mastered 24/96 file I will take it any day. Don't think so? Check out Steven Wilsons Remix of Aqualung in 24/96. If you do not think that sounds better than any prior version you have heard vinyl or otherwise?.....

Steven Wilsons Remix of Aqualung in 24/96 sounds different. Does it sound better? It's a matter of taste.

My lp is on order. Will report back.

No, millercarbon is correct, they will all be like this.

 

How do you know that?

I can't speak to this particular record yet, I will have it soon, , but I've purchased at least 300 new records in the past year or so and except for a few have had very little or no noise. I do clean them before I play them so I don't know what they are like before they are cleaned, but I view cleaning all records as an essential part of the process so it really doesn't matter to me what they are like before they are cleaned.