Kevin Morby - Singing Saw (CD)

The music is great of course. And the fidelity is there. But there’s something wrong with the actual physical pressing. There’s loud crackling noise in the right channel at the beginning of each side. It gets quieter and more tolerable towards the center of the record. The last songs on each side sound mostly great. I tried cleaning it on my VPI cleaning machine but it didn’t help. There are also some jagged bumps near the edge of the record in the dead wax before the first song. If your needle were to run through it, I suspect it could cause some damage. So you have to be careful to drop the needle in a safe part of the vinyl, not too close to the edge. You should probably avoid this pressing. The pressing plant did a really sloppy job cutting it.