Tommy

This album was a major grower for me for some reason. Hated it on listen 1, tolerated it on listen 2, loved it by listen 3....

Bump for a solid dude, thanks Casey

Does Rough Trade do these 'Live at' LPs regularly? Is this truely limited to 500 or is this a RT variant o a wider release?

Thanks OP!

Allen, thank you so much for this detailed response. You have confirmed my suspicion that the powered speaker option, while seemingly convenient, is not the best option for me. I had a set of AV40s for studio monitoring and was not a fan. I'm going to start research on integrated amps now since I was only looking at phono receivers before. This widens my options. Thanks again for being so kind.

And added awful lifeless karaoke vocals

My current setup consists of an MCS 6700 TT, Vintage Pioneer receiver and some decent passive speakers. I have been seeing more people go the route of phono preamp and powered speakers and I am starting to get curious. I have searched VC and YouTube for some explaination about the two setups and can't find much. VC - what are the pros and cons to each setup (phono preamp and powered speakers vs. vintage phono receiver and passive speakers)? I would think you would get two totally different sounds from each. Anyone have experience with both?

That cat has seen some shit

Guess you could say he has good reason to be cocky

Why

Yeah, I don't know. Just feels like they recorded 18 songs for DC and split it into two releases (even though they say its a completely different record). Just reminds me of movie box office releases that could be one long movie but get split into two films released at separate times to capitalize on the revenue (Hunger Games). I could be way off, but just my 2 cents. Also, I do agree with the idea of Kid A and Amnesiac and I see how it works in that scenario as a companion. We'll see

This has cash grab written all over it, but what the hell. It's gonna be good

Love the artwork. Looks like a throwback to Beach House of old. Ordered!

Thx jbrana

Via fb just now: "It was recorded at the same time as Depression Cherry, but for us, it's very much a different record. All of its songs were written after the DC songs. Along the way we realized that we didn't want it to be released in the traditional manner. Mainly, we just wanted our listeners to hear it first. "

What are the odds this is really good, or just a collection of mediocre leftovers. I have no idea how to feel about this yet.

How limited is that Loser Edition, do we know?

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa????????

This is a first for me

E Z PASS

What's even sadder is that people are still fans of this nonsense

For real though, any variant on this or just all black?

Hahahahaha