Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates Of Dawn on 180g Vinyl LP
The Wait for Great-Sounding Audiophile-Quality Pink Floyd Vinyl Is Over: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn on LP, Mastered from the Original Analog Tapes by James Guthrie, Joel Plante, and Bernie Grundman
Pink Floyd’s transformative debut, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, forever changed psychedelic rock. The only one of the band’s albums to be helmed by the fractured genius of Syd Barrett, the 1967 effort finally sounds as it should on vinyl LP. Mastered from the original analog tapes by James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman and pressed on 180-gram vinyl, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is part of the long-overdue Pink Floyd catalog-reissue campaign that is restoring the group’s prized works to analog. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, right next door to the Beatles as the latter worked on Sgt. Pepper, the Top Ten album comes across as a wonderful mix of the whimsical and weird. Filtered through an LSD lens and shot through with melodic acid-pop and experimental instrumental workouts, it includes the space-rock classic “Interstellar Overdrive” and dramatic “Astronomy Divine.”