It is their first album consisting entirely of ray davies compositions and has also been regarded by critics as rock s first concept album.
Kevin gray face to face kinks vinyl.
The fourth kinks album was the first on which ray davies removes his hard rock shell.
This version is the only european one to be mastered from the analogue tapes the other one is from a digital source.
Face to face is a great listen start to finish and is sort of the kinks rubber soul or revolver in terms of songwriting full album experience wonderment.
Plus we have kevin gray on board.
From here on kinks records would become more than collections of songs they d become coherent frames whose material added up to a complete perspective.
Ray davies was one of them.
After an exhausting reading on s.
Kevin gray mastered this using the original uk pye records master tapes.
Like another side of bob dylan and the beatles rubber soul face to face marks the beginning of the kinks classic period.
You cannot go wrong with this or the rest of the kinks reissues however you have to really be careful because over the years there have been so many reissues of this catalog you could end up with the wrong one.
2015 re issue mono vinyl.
Cut from analog by kevin gray.
I compared it to uk pye originals and found it sounds even better.
I compared it to uk pye originals and found it sounds even better.
It s clear in retrospect that many artists from the 60s rock era were rocking only because that s what the times demanded.
It is the home for the legendary pre summer of love hit sunny afternoon the reissue sounds real good on shiny new 180 gram black vinyl put out by bmg sanctuary records.
You cannot go wrong with this or the rest of the kinks reissues however you have to really be careful because over the years there have been so many reissues of this catalog you could end up with the wrong one.
Hoffman forums about the recent kinks reissues i ve discovered that this pressing is the one to get if you dont want the nice box that has been released in 2016.
Kevin gray mastered this using the original uk pye records master tapes.
Kevin gray at cohearent mastering.