![]() ![]() In the accompanying notes, Geffen, author of Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary, wrote: VMP’s 1LP edition is pressed on exclusive “Windows of Rain” Galaxy vinyl, remastered by Guy Davie at Electric Mastering, with an art print by Valerie Nichol and Listening Notes from Sasha Geffen. In August, VMP Essentials will feature Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s self-titled album, a melding of jazz and folk through the lens of Glenn-Copeland’s classical upbringing. August: Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s Beverly Glenn-Copeland ![]() “We are proud to have worked closely alongside the artist and label to make this deluxe pressing a reality and are excited to deliver this amazing version of a long-awaited Record of the Month.” “ De-Loused at the Comatorium has been one of our ‘white whale’ records - meaning it is an album that our member base has been consistently asking us to run for years and that has been quite difficult to pin down,” said VMP Head of A&R Alex Berenson. ![]() Our version has “reversed” album art - the initial release of the record uses cover art featuring a golden head, against the band’s wishes, which is corrected here. VMP’s 2LP edition is pressed on Gold & Black Marble vinyl at GZ, remastered by Chris von Rautenkranz and Florian Siller at Soundgarden Mastering, with a poster and an art print of a De-Loused-era photo by Robin Laananen. Our first-ever prog rock album for Essentials, we’re featuring the seminal debut album from The Mars Volta, De-Loused in the Comatorium. Read below to find out more: July: The Mars Volta’s De-Loused in the Comatorium Some hailed Wu-Tang Forever as the best double-disc hip-hop album yet released, but others regarded it as a disappointment despite its many high points, it's the first time the Wu didn't quite fulfill their ambitions.Our next three Essentials Records of the month - which you’ll receive if you sign up for VMP Essentials in July, August and September 2021 - take you from prog rock to jazz-folk to hip-hop, and from the comatorium to 36 chambers. Wu-Tang Forever easily would have made a brilliant single CD RZA's production is more polished than the debut, thanks to a bigger budget and better equipment, and leans heavily on soundtrack-style strings to underscore the album's cinematic scope. The second disc is far too long, diluting the impact of its better songs (the terrific single "Triumph") with an excess of lackluster material. Once you get past the rambling Five Percenter introduction, the first disc is pretty tight, partly because it was kept short to leave room for enhanced CD content. In other words, the group is starting to go off in more individual directions here, making it harder to maintain an overall focus. On the other hand, you also get some of the group's most explicit sex raps yet ("Maria," "The Projects," the utterly bizarre ODB solo track "Dog Shit"). On the one hand, there's more social consciousness on Wu-Tang Forever, taking hard looks at ghetto life while finding pathos and offering encouragement and uplift ("A Better Tomorrow," "Impossible"). While the result, Wu-Tang Forever, is frequently brilliant, it's also sprawling and unfocused, losing its handle on the carefully controlled chaos of Enter the Wu-Tang. So why not give it a shot? With a main crew of nine MCs (plus new protégé Cappadonna), the Wu wouldn't have to depend heavily on guest appearances to flesh out two whole discs of material, as Biggie and 2Pac had. By the time the Wu-Tang Clan finished their first round of solo projects and reconvened for their second album as a group, the double-disc album had become the hip-hop fad of the moment.
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