Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago

Interested in purchasing this if anybody has a copy willing to sell. Shoot me a DM! Thanks!

Superb pressing. This album is Meant to be enjoyed on vinyl

Sounds fantastic, very quiet. Bought in the bundle they used to have on their website.

Great sounding record once vacuum cleaned. Vinyl is quite dirty and needs a clean to get rid of the surface noise issue.

Sounds excellent to me. Flat record, no noise, no issues playing it. Couldn't be happier. Love the thick cover.

Not a great pressing unfortunately, no pops or crackles but sibilence makes the vocals sound awful. Listenable but barely

Revisiting this record on a grown-up stereo with a vivid memory of how this record shaped and sounded during heartbreaks - I can only comment that this pressing is flawless. Nothing is missing, it hits exactly with the heaviness that this new EP released today implies.

I would guess that the copies that sound bad are later pressings, as it seems Jagjaguwar, or rather the pressing plant they used, kept using the same lacquer to make new stampers over and over for several years (as all copies have the exact same matrix etchings, they definitely didn't press +30.000 records all at once). You obviously shouldn't do this as the lacquer, or stamper, will eventually get worn, resulting is lesser sounding records, simply put.

Other labels like Merge, Drag City and Secretly Canadan seem to do/have done this a lot too, press way way waaay too many copies of some of their more popular albums without cutting a new lacquer.

Unfortunately this also makes it impossible to know if you're buying an early or more recent pressing without listening to it as they all look exactly the same up until Jagjaguwar switched pressing plant to (the infamous) GZ.
My copy, which I bought shortly after release, sounds great, btw, though you gotta keep in mind this isn't exactly a hi-fi recording to begin with.

The mastering itself sounds wonderful. However, my copy is not quiet enough for me and I can't ignore the persistent clicks during "re: stacks." Returning is not an option at this time, but I'll try to get another copy eventually.

Disappointed by this. Soundstage and dynamics are good, but not good enough to over come sibilance in a lot of the vocals.