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Early Day Miners, Placer Found (20th Anniversary LP) | The Vinyl Anachronist

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I posted this on Facebook just the other night: “I’ve been getting a lot of LPs sent to me that don’t specify 33 or 45rpm. Sometimes I guess wrong, and sometimes the music just really sucks.” The 20th Anniversary pressing of the Early Day Miners first album, 2000’s Placer Found, certainly doesn’t fit the latter comment but it does apply to the former. I looked at this double-LP set, with the spare amount of tracks on some of the side, and I assumed it was a 45rpm pressing. The first track on the album, the title track, is an instrumental, and it sounded perfectly fine playing at the faster speed–taut, upbeat and cleverly performed. It wasn’t until the second track that Dan Burton’s vocals came in and I realized that this gentleman wasn’t singing while inhaling helium. Here’s the thing–I don’t know the Early Day Miners. When an album gets the reissue treatment, I like to think there’s a reason such as it was a beloved masterpiece the first time around. Placer Found might qualify as that, but I wouldn’t know–I’m the guy who’s fond of joking that if I don’t know it, it must not exist or be very […]

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