Dos Y Dos on ORG - a letdown.

Starting up front with the superficial - this has just got to be the worst back cover on a record so far this decade. You have just got to wonder why aging artists would want themselves to be photographed like this, and these are...well...self inflicted wounds, to put it kindly. Purple on purple?? Groovy, just like the Partridge Family would do if they were still around. Cool color coordination. Might want to look into a bit of hair color at this point, folks, even a bottle job would be better. Sorry to be superficial and crass, but it really does detract from the music. Front cover is pretty good.

The pressing is a letdown. Pallas is not the great quality assured fabulous be all and end all of pressing plants it's sometimes made out to be. One failing is the inner sleeves they use which are loaded with static, and the discs all too often come loaded with dust attracted by the sleeves. It's a pretty noisy pressing, particularly at the side starts, and cleaning didn't make it much better. The music actually requires a quiet pressing.

On to that music. Bass duo, a bit of vocal in places, very good, great to hear basses on their own, tunes are excellent, a fascinating sort of jazzy-punkish bass thing going on.

But too bad about ORG's pressing. Worthwhile, but you may have to work at it to find a good pressing, and musically it's not really worth the effort.