Lenny Kravitz – 5

Awful GZ Media pressing (Czech Republic) !!!! Sunds noisy and dirty

It's a great album to start positive; the music is excellent - I LOVE LENNY !! I have this 2xLP vinylversion from Back to Black, too; and I am happy that I own it. It isn't a great pressing to be honest. It is kinda "overmastered" at some tracks and has a bit hollow flat sound here and there - and this is present when the music is very loud; it sounds bad - it can be a mastering thing, too and not a pressing thing. My discs are not warped; play excellent. I couldnt find any ticks or pops too. Reasonable more commercial pressing... i have records which are sounding much worse then this one. "Fly Away" sounds great. "Take Time" sounds kinda awful when the music is at his loudest. I have the idea; that vinyl 2 is sounding better then vinyl 1. But I am not really sure about that. I give it a 3/5 and the music 4/5. It could be worse if we talk about the pressing. :)

I can't believe how mediocre is the pressing of this vinyl. Sounds awful. Too bad for a great album.

So happy to have this, not sure about other reviews, but mine sounds great and I’m playing it on a quality system. Beautiful sound! This took too long to issue!

Update: 6 copies of this heard now and all of them have the same issues: both records are dish warped. The second disc often has pressing faults around the first track of side D and also has ripples in the vinyl. These Kravitz reissues are appalling. With any GZ manufactured LP, it goes without saying that the inner sleeves have creases across the artwork, ruining the portraits of the singer and the awful, awful, awful paper they use scratches the records completely. Both discs are covered in hairlines and jaggedy marks all over the place. AVOID.

Disc 1 is dished exactly like the new Oribital LP Monsters Exist, which I am pretty sure is from the same factory. Disc 2 massive pops at the beginning of side D. Pretty sure this is another GZ disaster area (the code lasered into the dead wax) just like TT's Lovelaws, just like Elton John's Diamonds, just like Blade Runner 2049, just like St Vincent's Masseduction, just like Justin Timberlake's Man of the Woods, just like Star Wars The Last Jedi, just like Stranger Things, just like oh God there are just too many to mention. So I am officially done with vinyl pressed by this awful pressing house. They can't even get the records into the sleeves without creasing them. If it says Universal on the back or any of its sub labels, which all seem to get their records pressed at GZ, I'm not going there; it's too frustrating, actually, upsetting.