The Shins – Oh, Inverted World

For a modern repress this is very good indeed. No pops, no crackles, no background noise. Clear and detailed with separation of instruments.

This album will probably always be consistently in my top 10 of all time. The lo-fi sort of dreamy atmosphere it creates is like no other album I’ve heard. I was pleasantly surprised with the sound of this one, great soundstage and separation of instruments across the board. The packaging, like all of the other Sub Pop releases I own, is exceptional in quality, and the booklet this comes with is amazing. Highly recommended!

Such a great record….this is my third issue, I love it that much. I have my 2002 pressing on Subpop and I gave away my 2004 reissue. I upgraded a lot on my system (especially to the Linn Adikt cartridge…superb) and the 2002 pressing just sounded blah and dull….which is horrible for such a wonderful and poppy album. I decided to buy the reissue on recommendations and I am very very pleased. It sounds so much more alive. The clarity of the drums and guitar is fantastic. Very happy, finally. I will just hang onto my 2002 copy for sentimental reasons.

I'm very happy with my copy of this. No surface noise whatsoever on Side A, and Side B just had a little bit of popping in a couple places. The dynamics sound good to my ear.

I played the hell out of OH, INVERTED WORLD when it was released, and it's remained a favorite. I'm very pleased with the sound on this 2021 reissue. There's plenty of low end, very crisp drums, keyboards and vocals have a warm, full tone, and the soundstage is wide and spacious. My copy is in like-new condition, and plays nice and clean with no surface noise. Nice booklet too.

I just A-to-B-ed my 2004 pressing with a copy of this 2021 remaster. On my system at least (which is not bad but not fancy - Project 1 turntable through a 1970s Pioneer amp, KEF speakers) the 2004 is better. A fair bit more bass and better clarity of the vocal than the 2021. So much as it seems wrong, I am nicking the beautiful booklet from the 2021 press and putting it in my 2004 copy. The booklet-less 2021 copy will go back out into the world.

I'm not one of these people that claims that vinyl has clearly higher sound quality than CD, but there's something undeniable about the fact that you do listen to it *differently* on LP -- and that means A LOT.

For instance, I bought this debut Shins album (oh inverted world) from 2001 on CD in 2003, had it sitting in my collection for literally 20 years, and in that time I think I may have listened to it four or five times, tops. Never really connected with it, and almost traded it in on multiple occasions. Today I saw this vinyl copy pop up in the Neptoon records bargain bin and for some reason I nabbed it...So I get home, give it a clean, give it a spin and that is *exactly* what happened. Love at first listen, even though it totally wasn't the first time. This album is a janglepop masterpiece! How did I never hear it before?! really nice pressing. You won't be disappointed

The version to own, without question. Omnibus was one of the few labels doing reliable vinyl pressings during this era, and they nailed it. All subsequent reissues have a super muddy master compared to this original, to the point that I feel like you haven’t really heard the album unless you’ve heard this. It’s so much brighter than anything that’s come after. Get it.

This is one of those records when I see I just have to get because I listening to it years ago (digital) and being blowing away. The music is just superb on this album and the insert is cool, really taught me a lot about the artist and how influential the record is

4 stars only because it is not the cleanest record, some of the pops may improve with cleaning but I don’t know. With that said, wouldn’t let that scare you away. The mastering mix, and the sound stage is amazing. The cymbals and drums really hit. Some of the songs that are busy have the vocals a bit suppressed but overall I absolutely loved the listen

This is a really bad and muddy sounding cassette even by cassette standards. Oh well, happy to have it in this format but wow this sounds gross lol.