Carbon Based Lifeforms – Interloper

Agree with the others, terrible pressing - loud crackles and pops.
Shameful release :(

A very bad remaster. As a great CBL fan I can not understand how my favorite song from this album "Supersede" was butchered so much that I can not even listen to it. The second part of the song on the remastered version is cluttered with a reverbed ride or hi-hat-like sound which just sounds like a continuous white noise. It is even unbearable if you have any virtualization or stereo widener applied. Just listen to the 2010 version here youtube.com/watch?v=-xj2BmxEkcI starting from 05:00 and then check out the remastered version here youtube.com/watch?v=1Nhdru3Qgs0 . It is just annoying. I would suggest to get the 2010 CD.

Beautiful packaging, god awful pressing, came with crackles, pops and actual skips - not what youbwant on an ambient record. The band should care how their beautiful and thoughtful music is being presented by this label.

Very nice to here a remastered version too. 5 stars anyway for this masterpiece, timeless music. I am well satisfied with the reissue but would like the Ultimea version too... just a nerd cd fetish. I am not the only one...

Stand out track: "M". Lovely synths with a dreamy voice.

I'm always happy to have a nicely remastered album, but I don't get why they basically reworked it for these reissues. Removing the track segues so they're all separate tracks was a particularly tedious decision as it ruins the magical flow of the original. It's good to own the album, but looks like I'm still going to have to save up to get an Ultimae version...

My black vinyl was brand new and sealed - and had pops clicks surface noise and also a fault on B1 that caused really loud clicks - as I said I have 20 year old ambient vinyl albums that sound better than this :( Terrible .. A disgrace for something that should have had a lot more care given to it considering the amazing music and cost £25 as well, To me it was a cash grab :(

Mine is a light coke bottle green with really nice dark green and sounds lush, quiet and full, there is a little background noise and few pops (nothing I don't expect with coloured vinyl) but mostly quiet, I really like the mastering i dont know if I'm fully sold on the new artwork yet but I like aspects of it, the mastering is great, my only gripe is that all the albums covers came with bent corners but I'll live.

Fault pressing on my black

bought brand new and sealed

B1 causes loud clicks am sending mine back

To be fair, there's no real need to review the music, as I and many others have commented elsewhere how brilliant CBL's acid-infused psybient is. So I will merely say it is very satisfying to finally have the three albums in question on vinyl at long last.

That said, I must comment: I received my copies of the albums straight from the label (I pre-ordered them like everyone else), and yet both records of all three albums have surface noise (mostly on the first track of each side of the records) and occasional audible pops, both incidental and cyclic. Since the records were pre-ordered and therefore supposedly brand new, I am naturally inclined to question the quality of the product. So I wonder whether others who bought the clear vinyl (or the other versions) have found their copies to be similarly imperfect even upon first playing.

Edit: it seems like at least a few others have had the same experience as me.