Dire Straits – Love Over Gold (1982) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2011] [SACD / Vertigo – UIGY-9505]

Title: Dire Straits – Love Over Gold (1982) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2011]
Genre: Rock
Format: SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Reissue features the high-fidelity SHM-SACD format (fully compatible with standard SACD player, but it does not play on standard CD players). DSD Transferred by Manabu Matsumura. Adding a new rhythm guitarist, Dire Straits expands its sounds and ambitions on the sprawling Love Over Gold. In a sense, the album is their prog rock effort, containing only five songs, including the 14-minute opener “Telegraph Road.” Since Mark Knopfler is a skilled, tasteful guitarist, he can sustain interest even throughout the languid stretches, but the long, atmospheric, instrumental passages aren’t as effective as the group’s tight blues-rock, leaving Love Over Gold only a fitfully engaging listen.

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Tracklist:

01 – Telegraph Road
02 – Private Investigations
03 – Industrial Disease
04 – Love Over Gold
05 – It Never Rains

Note:

DSD Transferred from analogue master tapes by Manabu Matsumura (Universal Mastering Studios, Tokyo).

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