Carbon Based Lifeforms – Interloper

To be fair, there's no real need to review the music, as I and many others have commented elsewhere how brilliant CBL's acid-infused psybient is. So I will merely say it is very satisfying to finally have the three albums in question on vinyl at long last.

That said, I must comment: I received my copies of the albums straight from the label (I pre-ordered them like everyone else), and yet both records of all three albums have surface noise (mostly on the first track of each side of the records) and occasional audible pops, both incidental and cyclic. Since the records were pre-ordered and therefore supposedly brand new, I am naturally inclined to question the quality of the product. So I wonder whether others who bought the clear vinyl (or the other versions) have found their copies to be similarly imperfect even upon first playing.

Edit: it seems like at least a few others have had the same experience as me.