Saturday 30 August 2008

Record labels, stores make room for vinyl

Sound matters.


It�s a shibboleth every record label should endorse. But in the present digital era of CDs and mp3s, sound quality has tanked as labels crank the mass and launder out the dynamic range audiophiles loved about vinyl. Indie labels kept putting out wax by underground artists long after the majors well-tried to kill off vinyl, but you were out of fortune if you wanted to hear that warm merchantman end vinyl gave Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top and countless other classic artists whose LPs went out of print during the CD boom.


Now, with the second sexual climax of vinyl, the �Sound matters� catchword has been picked up again by Warner Bros. Records to promote a massive slate of prominent 12-inch reissues. In a strange