Matthew Sweet: The Expanded Studio Albums (DISCOUNT BUNDLE SHIPPING NOW!)
$120
Original Release Date: 1991-1995
Original Label: Zoo Entertainment
- POWER POP CLASSICS: GIRLFRIEND, ALTERED BEAST and 100% FUN!
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- Artist-Approved Double LP Expanded Editions with EXTRA TRACKS!
- 100% Analog Mastered by Ryan K. Smith From The Original Master Tapes!
- Ultra-Quiet 180-Gram Vinyl Pressed At RTI and GOTTA GROOVE RECORDS
- Exquisitely Restored Gatefold Jacket Art Printed by Stoughton
Intervention Records and Matthew Sweet are proud to introduce this amazing Artist-Approved reissue series With The Expanded Studio Albums!
2-LP Expanded Editions of Sweet’s 90’s power-pop Classics Girlfriend, Altered Beast and 100% Fun!
Each Expanded Edition double-LP set is loaded with extra tracks. So many of these songs are either appearing on vinyl for the very first time or seeing official release for the very first time. And for Sweet completists, these LPs are the most extensive collection of extra tracks compiled and packaged with the studio albums the songs were recorded for!
All of these LPs are 100% analog mastered from the ORIGINAL ANALOG MASTER TAPES by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound. The original 15-song repertoire for Girlfriend is for the first time spread across three LPs sides for maximum sound quality and the ability to PLAY LOUD!
The ultra-quiet 180-gram LPs are pressed at boutique press, RTI in Camarillo, CA.
The jacket art for Matthew Sweet The Expanded Studio Albums has been faithfully restored by IR’s art director Tom Vadakan. The Expanded Editions feature beautiful “Old Style” gatefolds printed onto heavy blanks and film laminated by the wizards at Stoughton Printing.
Mastering Notes
All of these LPs are 100% analog mastered from the ORIGINAL ANALOG MASTER TAPES by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound. The original 15-song repertoires for Girlfriend is for the first time spread across three LPs sides for maximum sound quality and the ability to PLAY LOUD!
The Lost 90's Series
A prime directive at IR is bringing music from the dark days of the 1990s CD era to glorious new life on premium vinyl. So much fantastic music from this era either never saw a vinyl release, or saw only a very limited and all too often low-quality release ripped from CDs without much care. During that era even if the original capture was analog the music was ripped to digital and loaded into workstations for final editing, mixing, sequencing and final assembly. If vinyl was released during this era it is more than likely sourced from CD files. For releases that were never assembled in analog or were fully-digital recordings, IR acquires and masters from the best source files available, and if needed assembles final mixes, cross-fades, etc. during mastering. The increase in musicality and purity is as exponential! Combining superior master sources with the truly full-range, ultra-transparent mastering chains at studios like CoHEARent Audio and Sterling Sound, our dead quiet 180G vinyl pressings results in hearing the music that is the soundtrack to our lives like never before!