What music has impressed you today?

I've been meaning to pick up the B&S album but haven't yet. Not sure I will get the DM album. I am a fan but haven't really paid attention to their last few studio albums. The last new album from them I really loved was Playing the Angel which I have on both LP and CD.

RE: the dynamic range thing, it's pretty much impossible to get an accurate reading on a digital needledrop of a vinyl record. The only way to know the dynamic range of the master used to cut the vinyl, is to have access to that master. A few indie labels have released such things digitally but it's rare for a big name band signed to a major label to do so.

Yeah, it's entirely possible the vinyl sounds subjectively better, just hard to quantify things with dynamic range. I'll have to check out some songs from the album and decide if I need it. PTA is hard to top and is easily one of my 3 favorites by the band.

I haven't decided what format or version I will buy for the B&S album. Over here in the U.S., we get stuck with GZ pressings and GZ in-house cuts, so I might pass on the vinyl and get the CD version instead. I did like "Previous" more than "Human Problems". I thought the production on "Human" sounded terrible and just fell flat for me. Those songs sounded much better live when I saw the band. I'd like to go see them again sometime.