Great sounding new vinyl

Mudcrutch sounds excellent.

Gang,

Here are a few good-excellent sounding purchases of new music over the past year:

Shins "Wincing The Night Away"
Mudcrutch (Tom Petty with his original band) "Eponymous"
White Stripes "Icky Thump"
Raconteurs "Consolers of the Lonely"
Elvis Costello "Momufoko" (?sp?)
Shelby Lynne "Just A Little Lovin"

New music with less than stellar sonics:

Gutter Twins "Saturnalia"
Menomena "Friend of Foe"
The National "Boxer" (fabulous album)

A sampling of new old stock recordings of merit:

Grace Jones "Slave To The Rythym"
Robert Palmer "Clues"
The Bangles "Everything"
Phil Woods "More Live"
A/C D/C "Back in Black"
Stevie Wonder "Songs in the Key of Life" (Speakers Corner Reissue)
Flip Phillips "A Real Swinger"
Duke Ellington w/Ray Brown "This One's For Blanton"

Just few from the past couple of months...

The Music Matters and Analogue Production 45 rpm Blue Note Jazz reissues (any of them: Horace Parlon, Kenny Drew, Hank Mobley, Jackie McLean, Tina Brooks, Art Blakey, John Coltrane)
James Taylor, Sweet Baby James (Warner Brothers BS 2561, Rhino reissue)
James Taylor, Mud Slide Slim (Warner Brothers 274300, Rhino reissue)
Blues Jam at Chess, Blue Horizon 7-66227, Pure Pleasure reissue
Beethoven, Symphony No 7, Kajski/PolishChmPO, Tacet L 149
Rossini, 6 Sonate a Quartro, Philips 4769648, limited edition reissue
Stravinsky Ballets box set, Dorati, Speakers Corner Mercury reissues
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I happened to buy SRV Texas Flood on Pure Pleasure just a couple of months ago.

While the LP doesn't have any major anomalies, or defects, and of course doesn't possess grounds for return, or stating it is bad, I did seem to notice a couple of cuts on the LP, one being "Mary had a little Lamb", that seemed to not similarly match other cuts on the LP, and sounded to me like something wrong was done with re-matering, volume levels, etc. Like I was playing an entirely different LP.

Sadly, it seems, one can pick apart so many of these modern re-issues, and it also seems that for every re-issue there is, it never fails that somebody will note that an original of one flavor, or another always surpasses it.

I know re-issue Vinyl is a godsend for many, but I admit, my purchase of new vinyl has curtailed over recent years, and prefer to hunt down clean originals in almost every case. With that being said though, I may be blind to know that there are probably some very good new vinyl to be had. Unfortunately, my pockets haven't been deep enough lately to take the chance. Mark

I'm recently back into vinyl and have had mixed results with new vinyl from a quality standpoint(i.e. minimal snap, crackle or pops). By far the best of the handful of new vinyl I have purchased so far is Miles Davis' "Relaxin" on the Analogue Productions label. It's quiet as a CD and sounds fantastic. I have read that Analogue Productions issues are generally good, so I have ordered a few more from that label for comparison. As an FYI, my copy of Shelby Lynne's Just a Little Lovin that some mentioned earlier sounds good, but has a bit of surface noise.