Glitter Bugs

Medium Medium ‎- The Glitterhouse [OPT4.21 UK 3LP 2017 24-Bit FLAC]

British archive label Optic Nerve Recordings compiled the works of Medium Medium onto a three platter set back in 2017. In addition to The Glitterhouse album, we are also treated to all the band's singles, unreleased demo sessions tracks for Dutch label Sound-Products and the Adrian Sherwood single mix of Hungry, So Angry. The third record is a twelve inch EP of tracks recorded during the bands reformation in 2008. 

Sounds great, eh? Well now the bugs.... clear splatter vinyl is not a great medium for remastered tracks and the surface noise becomes quite noticeable in places. This album would have been a great opportunity to clear up the issues with singles such as Splendid Isolation, I am not convinced those featured here are an improvement. The sound quality on the extra EP is excellent, however this is an older Medium Medium and unfortunately they have lost their edge (I'm being kind here) and their funk chops.

This package is great because it gets everything together in one place but it disappoints due to the lack of care with the new vinyl ....all in the interest of using splattered clear but inferior vinyl. If you need to here my rips of my original crackly Medium Medium vinyl, point your browsers here.

A1 Hungry So Angry
A2 Serbian Village
A3 The Glitterhouse
A4 Guru Maharaj Ji
B1 Further Than Funk Dream
B2 Mice Or Monsters
B3 That Haiku
C1 Nadsat Dream
C2 Them Or Me
C3 Freeze
C4 Splendid Isolation
C5 7th Floor
C6 If You Touched Her She’d Smear
D1 Hungry So Angry (Original Single)
D2 Frightened Child
D3 Full Of Secrecy
D4 Praying
D5 Hidden Fears
E1 OK We Go
F1 Let Me Breathe
F2 Obsessed

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