311 – Full Bloom

My copy sounds and looks excellent. Love the album and the pressing is really good! Bought it from the 311 website.

Amazing pressing. Loving the album sound on this master and pressing. The variant is super unique and looks incredible. Perfectly flat, some slight noise on the outer and inner edges but otherwise dead quiet. Boomy sound. Amazing tone, tight bass and good volume for a single LP. Out of all the 311 pressings I own this is in the top 5. Easily.

Another solid 311 album. Don't get discouraged if you're listening straight through. They saved the best two tracks ('All You've Seen' & 'Braver') for the end of the album.

Product quality wise, the jacket is decent, but sometimes it's a little tight getting the LP back in. Unfortunately they cheaped out and used die-cut paper inners.. (shocker). This was pressed at United, but despite their 'iffy' reputation, the vinyl is actually nice & flat (unlike the complete disaster, that is the Grassroots 30th anniversary vinyl, which was warp city for 3 out of 3 copies they sent me, but I digress).

Like others mentioned, it's pressed on Bluish translucent colored vinyl.. Practically no swirl at all though, and nothing like the renderings.

All in all, this is the best way to hear this album... Digital/streaming sounds like hot garbage, brick-walled to death, and no dynamics whatsoever, but on vinyl, it's not half bad.. Huge improvement sonically. YMMV. 🤷🏻

FINALLY a jewel case modern 311 album! Fitting that this is easily the best album theyve put out since Stereolithic, the last jewel case album they put out. Great album.

The "blue swirl" isn't as pronounced as it is in the preview photo. Feels more like "transparent light blue", even when held up to the light.

Looks like all versions are not up on Discogs just yet, but if this is the standard (?) orange pressing, I don't believe it is limited to 1000 copies as it currently states. My comments are strictly for the orange press. This looks like it was plated at Nashville Record Productions and pressed at United. I don't see any engineering credits. It is a nice pressing, flat, centered and relatively dynamic although it sounds on par with the digital release, nothing too special here. Not a bad album, but seems a bit scattered like it was just put together over 5 years with differen producers on tracks from certain periods/locations. A lot of songs have a distortion on Nick's vocals that I don't love. Not nearly enough SA on this album, likely why he got an entire song of his here, which closes the album and might be the strongest tune on the album.