| | Level 42 Retroglide CD - Import Level 42 Discography of CDs
 (4 Customer Reviews)
Additional Tracks Level 42 Retroglide Songs | 1. | Dive Into The Sun |
| 2. | Rooted |
| 3. | The Way Back Home |
| 4. | Just For You |
| 5. | Sleep Talking |
| 6. | Retroglide |
| 7. | All Around |
| 8. | Clouds |
| 9. | Hell Town Story |
| 10. | Ship |
| 11. | All I Need (Bonus Track) |
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Retroglide Music Review Average Rating: (4 out of 5 stars)  So close....
Musically, a great album filled with all the things that I've loved about Level 42 since 1985. It's funky, uplifting, tight (as you'd expect).
Theres two things that have disappointed me though.
One, the production is atrocious. Its compressed to hell, resulting in a very boxy and at times tinny sound that I can't listen to on headphones without getting a headache by track 4. I think the main culprit is the recording of Gary Husband's sterling drums. How does this happen?? You'd think after 25 years they'd have an idea, or is this M.K.'s idea of good sound from a home studio. Even 'Standing In The Light' was produced better, and I used to think it was thin. Theres no listing of producer or studios on the credits, and I'm not surprised. A major disappointment.
Two, Mike Lindup's inclusion seems to be an afterthought and you can't really tell he's on any tracks at all. His signature vocals are nowhere in sight, drowned out by Mark's own multi-tracked harmony. Mike has no songwriting credit and only appears playing keys and the aforementioned vocals on tracks 1, 6, 9, 10. At least Boon gets a nice solo on 'Ship'.
It's a good album with good songs and great musicianship, I hope they get the impetus do to another, hopefully like the 'band' they used to be, and with an outside producer and good studio. Eleven years is a long time to wait. Key tracks "Dive into the sun", "Rooted", "Sleep talking", "Retroglide".
Submitted by Woody (NSW, Australia)
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This is some of the best Level 42 ever........With Gould and King writing again, it doesn't get a whole lot better.....
Submitted by mmoore10 (Belton,Texas,USA) 
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 nice songs...HORRIBLE production/mastering!!!
These songs are nice but still not close to Guaranteed in my opinion. Strange how the bonus track is in my opinion the strongest piece on the album. Now to the bad part...as an individual noted above the production and mastering is a disgrace. It's so so so compressed that it's fringing on unlistenable. I noticed credits to IK media on the insleeve. This is an decent quality amateur software mastering plug in and I have a feeling this is what was used to master Retroglide. Why wasn't this professionally mixed and mastered??? I can't believe that the band let this one slide. I'm going to try to get my money back. This cost me nearly $40 dollars with shipping. When I spend $40 bucks I want to get my money's worth.
Submitted by Phillip (San Diego, Ca)
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I notice this is being advertised as SACD now.....be careful people, it's in a SACD-like super jewel case but the disc certainly ain't SACD, check my previous review for sound quality issues. I've searched the web high and low for any confirmation of SACD release but can't find any. Its a pity, sort of got excited for a minute.....
Submitted by Woody (NSW, Australia)
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