The Koru Phonostage, part 2: Performance
The Koru's understated yet solid front face Cue music playing of the Elton John Variety "Will you go get it?" "No, you go get it!" "It's all the way over there, I don't care enough to get it." Thus ends the Mancave's statement about album art and liner notes. For those keeping track, it was "Funeral for a Friend" and how silly is that to fuss over? No, we don't read liner notes, or gaze lovingly at the album art. If this makes us overly honest, or philistines, I couldn't tell you. I am skeptical that lot of people pour over it at all, and find people listing this as one of their favorite things about vinyl, are either overselling it, are crazy and actually do it. But in reality, we spin disks and stream files for no other reason but the music - and for us the closer it sounds to what was actually laid down, the more we enjoy it - good liner notes, or not. This attiude not only keeps us vinyl fans, i...