The fourth kinks album was the first on which ray davies removes his hard rock shell.
Kevin gray face to face kinks vinyl.
After an exhausting reading on s.
I compared it to uk pye originals and found it sounds even better.
This version is the only european one to be mastered from the analogue tapes the other one is from a digital source.
It is the home for the legendary pre summer of love hit sunny afternoon the reissue sounds real good on shiny new 180 gram black vinyl put out by bmg sanctuary records.
Plus we have kevin gray on board.
Face to face is a great listen start to finish and is sort of the kinks rubber soul or revolver in terms of songwriting full album experience wonderment.
Face to face is the fourth studio album by the english rock band the kinks released in october 1966 the album marked a shift from the hard driving style of beat music that had catapulted the group to international acclaim in 1964.
Cut from analog by kevin gray.
Kevin gray at cohearent mastering.
Kevin gray mastered this using the original uk pye records master tapes.
I compared it to uk pye originals and found it sounds even better.
It is their first album consisting entirely of ray davies compositions and has also been regarded by critics as rock s first concept album.
You cannot go wrong with this or the rest of the kinks reissues however you have to really be careful because over the years there have been so many reissues of this catalog you could end up with the wrong one.
You cannot go wrong with this or the rest of the kinks reissues however you have to really be careful because over the years there have been so many reissues of this catalog you could end up with the wrong one.
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It s clear in retrospect that many artists from the 60s rock era were rocking only because that s what the times demanded.
Hoffman forums about the recent kinks reissues i ve discovered that this pressing is the one to get if you dont want the nice box that has been released in 2016.
2015 re issue mono vinyl.
From here on kinks records would become more than collections of songs they d become coherent frames whose material added up to a complete perspective.
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