Terrible sound and recording.
1 Stars
Posted
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
by
Jerome
The biggest disappointment of 2016 for me. The sound is heavily compressed and sounds like it was recorded on equipment found at a Salvation Army Thrift Shop. It is a very fatiguing listen. Some might argue that the sound is what the Stones were striving for. I don't know, and I really don't care. This is one bad sounding record and it doesn't invite repeat listens. So if the Stones were trying to produce a record that you could barely stand to listen to once and then put it away and never spin it again -- they succeeded. Early Black Key's records sound considerably better than this -- and those are most certainly lo-fi recordings. Blue & Lonesome is Lowest-Fi. The music is great, 5 stars. But the recording is 1 star.