Bohren & Der Club Of Gore – Black Earth

Stunning low end, crisp and gorgeous mids and highs. Like the band are in the room with you - one can even hear the vibration of the snare. It’s bloody wonderful. Soundstage is wide and every instrument sits perfectly in the mix. To be honest, surface noise is going to be more noticeable on an album as quiet and bare as this, but what little noise there is on my copy definitely does not detract from this absolute quality piece of art.

Just picked up a sealed copy and it seems i got lucky. No major pops or clicks and no warping. Compared to my copy of Sunset Mission, it's a revelation ! Packaging is ultra Black ... black inner sleeves (no poly liners ) and black inside the main cover too. So unfortunate that they decided to slap a white barcode in the middle of the rear cover. I don't understand why they cannot just have the barcode as a sticker on the shrink . Anyway, i'm just super happy that my copy plays through clean from start to finish with gorgeous depth of sound.

I love the album but there are problemswith surface noise particularly on side 4 track 2.

Great records - wonderful pressing. Haunting musicality is given the opportunity to fly

Good work ......
Package, Pressing, Master .....

Essential for minimal Dark Jazz to Drone Breathing

I bought two copies of this album. The second one was more lucky, but not much. There are small clicks and not a big defect at all on the last melody at the end of the record on the D side

What an excellent album. I am very pleased with the sound, very layered with high detail. Deep and ominous, the pressing is quiet with just the right amount of surface noise because life itself has surface noise.

Sound is great but many pops and clicks, little bit better than at Sunset Mission repress.

Listening to a brand new copy of the remaster and it plays great! Dead silent with no visible scratches. Sounds amazing on my AudioTechnica AT-LP120XUSB.

As already stated here: Lots of surface noisee and lots of hairlines out of the box. On the other hand a great mix with a wide soundstage. Cleaning the records improved it a litte, but still some pops and the surface noise won't go away. If you can live with this flaws it's a decent relase with nice gatefold artwork.