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Midnight sounds so good on vinyl.

This legendary album gets a nice pressing with this 45rpm edition. While comparable to the digital version, you get a bit of warmth and character in exchange for some typical vinyl background noise.

The 45rpm somehow just feels fitting for the fast paced energy on the album. Agree with others that this isn't a background listen, you have to flip every 3 songs, and you get some increase in quality at higher volumes. Crank up the volume and feel the groove!

Dayum!! What an extraoridnary & marvellous album!! I've discovered Caravan Palace just recently & started off with "Gangbusters Melody Club" which is i.m.o. in music, mastering & pressing just phenomenal!! But this album (🤖) here sounds even a bit better!! Dead quiet between tracks, instruments super sophisticated, cristal clear voices and HOLY SMOKES, what a clean & punchy bass!!! (my mate meant, if he'd wet hair, they'll be blown dry by the bass!)
And yeeees yes, it's a 45rpm album, so you have to lift your ass more often but s.f.what??! If you really care about excellent sound, 45rpm pressings do sound, most of times better than 33rpms.
Caravan Palace really & completely nailed it with this one!
This gem plays definitely in the reference-league!

Based on the other reviews I seem to have gotten lucky with my pressing. It sounds great. It's just annoying that they pressed two 45-rpm LPs for a release that could've easily been one LP.

12 inch at 45 rpm isn’t the best with automatic turntables and it would have probably fit on a single record when it would have been produced at a normal speed. Music is very good, but you will have to get up to flip / change the record a lot, making it not suitable for background music when you have guests over.

It's a great album but this pressing is full of surface noise that's very noticeable in quiet points

Great album, terrible pressing. Bought two copies, both had major edge warping on both records. Disappointing.

This is indeed a 45 RPM release, spread over 2 x LP. Sound is excellent, although the paper sleeves the records come packaged in do shed a fair bit of dust in my experience. This is compounded by the fact that this release has the 2 x LP in a single sleeve, meaning they're both rubbing off of each other in there. Nothing a quick clean and/or a swapped inner sleeve can't fix!

The booklet is just one folded sheet with nothing very interesting inside, and the jewel case that came with my CD was the lightest and flimsiest I've ever come across. Compared to my other Caravan Palace CDs, this release seems lazily done. Notwithstanding, the music is excellent, no complaints there.

"They Call It Lonely Diggin'"
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Now as stated prior by other people, this a 45RPM release (not too dissimilar to some of the recent Bjork remasters). Caravan Palace vinyl records always seem to be some of the best pressing out there. Like the first two albums, there is a fantastic amount of clarity and bass, the LP feels dynamic.

HOWEVER, 'Robot Face' seems to have a few issues with background noise. There was the odd pop throughout both records, but the worst background Nosie was during C.2 ('Russian') where the beginning of the song crackled quite a bit. May just be that Amazon decided to play frisbee with my records again, hope so. I'd hate the wonderful reputation for great vinyl quality that this band has.

45 RPM release. Great pressing. Perfect sound with deep bass.