- Sat Jun 07, 2014 7:00 pm
#22034
It's a bit of a weird experience, and some of it works better than others - the twirly hologram thing is rather lovely on the plus side, and having Side A play from the inside out is nicely silly. Side B also looks really cool if a little confusing initially as it makes it hard to see where the run-in groove is, although that does then work well with the dual-groove intro. The choice of intros comes with its own doings though, as there's an audible 'click' when the two converge. The locked groove on Side B doesn't really work too well either as it doesn't really run onto itself too well (as opposed to something like The Other World Of The Soundcarriers which is so sneaky that even now if I'm drunk enough it can be a good half hour before I notice).
The bonus tracks I'm not arsed about. For a product that essentially shows how cool the vinyl format can be, to then have to remove the centre labels (ie, damaging the thing) seems to be a bit of a weird thing to do, even if I could play 78s...
Ooh - and while I'm at it, what's the deal with the download card? I didn't have to provide my full name, date of birth, postcode and email address (all of which are mandatory fields) when I bought the record from a store, why should I have to do this to receive the download? It's more than my poor tinfoil hat can bear...
I'll put up proper pics when they arrive but here they are for now! Suspiria is the pop-up purple vinyl edition btw 
