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Artist: | Dire Straits |
Title: | Dire Straits Love Over Gold MFSL limited numbered 180gm vinyl 2 LP 45RPM |
Label: | |
Released: | 13/11/2019 |
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Format: | 180GM 2LP 45RPM |
Country | US |
Barcode: | 821797246910 |
Catalogue number: | MFSL 2-469 |
Store location: | AUDIOPHILE |
SKU: | 31872836 |
Condition: | BRAND NEW & SEALED |
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Genre: | Classic Rock |
Categories: | Essential Vinyl at Great Prices |
180-gram 45 RPM double LP set pressed at RTI!
Reissue of Love Over Gold teems with superb balances, front-to-back soundstages
Dead-quiet surfaces and extra-wide grooves reveal obscured details
Love Over Gold is all about contrast, tension, and crafty composition. Dire Straits' fourth album finds the band continuing to evolve by welcoming increasingly bold arrangements and exploring moody variations. Parts edgy and sharp, and part seductive and relaxed, the five lengthy songs on Love Over Gold sprawl out like a long, winding road cutting through a pastoral landscape. The addition of a new rhythm guitarist, Hal Lindes, encourages deeper atmospheric interplay while the presence of engineer Neil Dorfsman — his first appearance in what would be a long string of collaborations with Mark Knopfler — ensures stunning sonic properties that now come to life like never before.
Mastered from the original master tapes and pressed at RTI, Mobile Fidelity's 180-gram 45RPM 2LP version of Love Over Gold teems with superb balances, front-to-back soundstages, and crystalline purity. The dead-quiet surfaces and extra-wide grooves bring forward previously obscured details, extra information, and mastering-studio-quality transients. The distinctive textures of a host of instruments - marimbas, acoustic and electric guitars, vibes, synthesizers — further enhance the ambitiousness of the 1982 album.
On this audiophile pressing, everything Knopfler does seemingly turn to gold. Gearheads will hear the unique characteristics afforded by his use of a Mesa Boogie Mark II guitar amplifier (soon again employed on Brothers in Arms) and carefully chosen selection of Schecter Stratocasters, 1937 National steel guitar, and Ovation six- and twelve-string models. Reference-level separation and lifelike imaging place Knopfler and company in your room, while tube-like warmth, spaciousness, and airiness causes the music to breathe anew. This LP will be in your rotation for months.
It doesn't take long to realize Love Over Gold is like no other Dire Straits album — and a staunch proclamation of independence from a band that continued to take longer creative strides with each successive project. Fearlessly extending over metaphoric hills, valleys, and plains for nearly 14-and-a-half minutes, the opening "Telegraph Road" is a guitar hero's dream and exhilarating showcase for Lindes' give-and-take capabilities. In tandem with keyboardist Alan Clark, Lindes provides the ideal foil for not only Knopfler but the long-time rhythm section of bassist John Illsley and drummer Pick Withers.
Taking its time to arrive at destinations, the quintet paints evocative musical and lyrical portraits steeped in patience, drama, and, often times, sadness. Desolate emotions color the sweeping "Telegraph Road" and barren "Private Investigations," which finds Knopfler in the role of a tired private eye contemplating the emptiness and scars of his profession. Vocally, the Dire Straits leader remains in top form throughout, his whiskey-coated rasp conveying romantic ache, ongoing frustration, and what Rolling Stone beautifully deemed "wracking schizophrenia between the heart and the heartless, the loving and the pain."
Called Dire Straits' prog-rock statement, Love Over Gold is a classic that defies labeling and avoids aging.
A | Telegraph Road | 14:20 |
B | Private Investigations | 7:00 |
C1 | Industrial Disease | 5:50 |
C2 | Love Over Gold | 6:15 |
D | It Never Rains | 7:55 |
dispatched in | 24 hours |
format | vinyl |
year of release | 2019 |
condition | new |
genre | Rock |
artist | Dire Straits |
label | Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab |
Country | US |
Recently In Stock | No |
Forthcoming | No |
Absolutely stunning
By: Paul lewis on 14 May 2022This is not only the best sounding reissue I’ve ever heard, it’s one of the best sounding LPs I’ve ever heard. The clarity and dynamic range is incredible and the vinyl is dead, dead quiet. Unbelievably good
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