I'll keep it brief on this one. The new Music On Vinyl reissues of the Emerson Lake & Palmer catalog on vinyl sound like absolute dog turds. They're awful.
Case in point - the self titled first album. I have a German Island pressing that is excellent (if not quite as good as my deceased Japanese Cotillion pressing was) and has everything the Music On Vinyl doesn't - air, transparency, delicacy in the top end, openness, tonality (particularly in the acoustic piano parts). The MOV sounds like it's been poorly remastered from a bad digital clone. It's dull, lifeless, closed in, tonally wrong.
Avoid these turds. I usually like MOV stuff, even though I'm fully aware their sources are always digital. But these ELP vinyl reissues are bombs. The pressings aren't all that great either. Let's put it this way - my copy went straight to the used record store and that's rare for me. I hate taking the loss, but in this case, I was happy to get the thing out of my house ASAP - it's presence was offending the adjacent records in the rack.
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