Tears For Fears The Seeds Of Love #D Ltd Ed MOFI Vinyl LP (Ex)

$

90

Serial #5359

Numbered, Limited Edition! Pressed at RTI!

Meticulously Produced 1989 Orchestral Pop Work Includes Top 40 Hits “Sowing  the Seeds of Love” and “Woman In Chains”

Vocalist Oleta Adams Debuts and Aids English Pop-Rock Duo’s Pursuit of Soul,  Gospel Strains

Mastered on Mobile Fidelity’s World-Renowned Mastering System and Pressed at RTI:  LP Brings Intricate Melodicism to Foreground

Having elected to defy tradition and wait four years to release a follow-up to  their commercial breakthrough Songs From the Big Chair, Tears for Fears expand  their creative prowess on The Seeds of Love. Opting for grand melodies over  radio-targeted hooks and reflecting a slightly sunnier disposition, the  compositions establish an even closer relationship to soulful roots and hint at  gospel undercurrents. The duo, too, also discovered a secret weapon in the  person of Oleta Adams.

Mastered on Mobile Fidelity’s world-renowned mastering system and pressed at RTI,  this Silver Label LP resolves with striking clarity and precision the countless  layers of orchestral-themed information that pack jazzy fare such as “Standing  on the Corner of the Third World” and balladic turns like “Year of the Knife.”  Distinguished with sumptuous production techniques that reportedly cost more  than one million pounds to realize, the album benefits from the enhanced  spaciousness, bigger soundstages, increased atmospherics, and amplified dynamic  contrasts afforded by this audiophile collector’s edition.

While again pursuing themes associated emotional hurt and healing, Tears for  Fears take a more grandiose turn on arrangements steeped in suite-like forms and  epic pop psychedelia. Adams lends warmth via her gospel-shot vocals as well as  her female presence. She grounds songs with a combination of gentle poignancy  and soaring theatricality, bringing a can’t-miss energy to rigorously crafted  works that aim for a lasting transcendence independent of radio interest.

Of course, with the proudly bombastic “Sowing the Seeds of Love” and “Woman In  Chains,” Tears for Fears again found chart-scraping success, the hits rewards  for uncompromising boldness and this record’s expertly polished sound. The  group’s sonic evolution is also apparent on the album cover: an eye-popping,  colorful montage suggestive of the music’s harlequin textures and stylish  devices replaces the stark, grey-hued image carried by its predecessor. Here’s a  set that you can fairly judge by the cover.

"Mobile Fidelity performed commendably on this new edition, bringing the classic to market in perfect shape... The bottom end is well sorted and the hallmark MoFi quality is here in spades. Our test sample is flat, quiet, and centered, and features excellent reproduction of the original artwork... [U]unless you can be assured a perfect original, the Silver Label LP is the way to go. Grading these on a numerical scale, with a mint UK original at 100 and an immaculate US original 95, the Silver Label ranks 91. Pretty damn good." - Jeff Dorgay, TONEAudio Magazine, No. 52, January 2013 

Features:
• Limited Edition
• Numbered
• MoFi Silver Label Vinyl Series
• Mastered and Cut on the famous MoFi Sound Lab state-of-the-art Tim de  Paravacini-designed mastering system
• Pressed at RTI on Audiophile-Grade Standard Vinyl

Selections:
1. Woman In Chains
2. Badman’s Song
3. Sowing the Seeds of Love
4. Advice for the Young at Heart
5. Standing on the Corner of the Third World
6. Swords and Knives
7. Year of the Knife
8. Famous Last Words