Os anos 80 serão sempre recordados pelas sensações electropop, no entanto poucas ou nenhumas foram tão incríveis como Upstairs at Eric’s dos Yazoo. Numa mistura de voz blues e arranjos jazz, ritmos em estilo de pista de dança, esta estreia explosiva serve tão bem numa discoteca como numa sala de audição, onde a sua complexidade e exotismo prendem o ouvinte.

• Edição Limitada Numerada
• MoFi Silver Label Vinyl Series
• Masterizado no Gain 2 Ultra Analog System da MFSL
• Sistema de masterização MFSL desenhado por Tim de Paravicini
• Corte por Paul Stubblebine
• Prensado em Vinil Audiófilo na RTI USA

1/4" / 15 IPS analog copy to analog console to lathe

Yazoo Upstairs at Eric’s on Numbered-Edition LP from Mobile Fidelity Silver Label. An 80s Landmark: Ex-Depeche Mode Member Vince Clarke and Vocalist Alison Moyet Create Synthpop Classic. Smoky Blues Purring, Cool Jazz Vibes, Disco-Tinged Beats, and Dancefloor Minimalism Add Up to Electropop Genius. All the Grooves Hit the Low-Frequency Targets: LP Mastered on Mobile Fidelity’s World-Renowned Mastering System and Pressed at RTI.

The 1980s will forever be remembered for electropop sensations, yet few, if any, are quite as sensational as Yazoo’s Upstairs at Eric’s. A standard-setting mélange of smoky blues singing, jazzy arrangements, disco-tinged beats, and dancefloor vibes, the smash debut fits equally as well at a late-night club as it does in a living room, where the record’s complexity and exoticism takes listeners hostage. No wonder the 1982 landmark remains one of the decade’s most essential albums.

Mastered on Mobile Fidelity’s world-renowned mastering system and pressed at RTI, this numbered-edition Silver Label LP breathes with a decongested openness, textural richness, and tonal palette never before experienced on previous analog or digital editions. Alison Moyet’s inimitable vocals, such a huge part of the record’s appeal, are dramatically enhanced, her sensual timbre, bittersweet crooning, and knockout range now encompassing the full frequency spectrum and projecting outward in a way that traverses the flatness of the original pressings.

Indeed, her bluesy deliveries are at once elegant and exuberant, and give collaborative partner Vince Clarke free range to construct beat architectures that encompass freewheeling disco, house music, uptempo dance, and chilled-out pop. The former Depeche Mode member also layers on elegant keyboard melodies, establishing contagious hooks and electronic-laced landscapes that preceded the techno explosion and do so with a cooler elegance. Tape loops, random field-noise dialogues, and synth-stroked bass notes add to what’s nothing less than a perfect collusion of moody paranoia and soulful warmth.

While a cousin to synth-pop LPs by the likes of the Eurythmics, Soft Cell, OMD, and Depeche Mode, Yazoo’s Upstairs at Eric’s is singular for its chemistry between Moyet and Clarke—and an insouciant batch of songs high on emotion, style, and substance.

"Moyet’s vocals have more breath behind them and the soundstage expands across my listening room. My original US pressing has noticeably more surface noise, less dynamic range (faltering both in high frequencies and bass definition) and feels more closed in….Original vinyl copies of Upstairs at Eric’s are available for slightly less than you’d pay for this new pressing, but the improved sound and hardly noticeable price difference make this MoFi release the vinyl edition to get." - Eric Hetherington, The Audio Beat, September 26, 2012

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01. Don't Go
02. Too Pieces
03. Bad Connection
04. I Before E Except After C
05. Midnight
06. In My Room
07. Only You
08. Goodbye Seventies
09. Situation
10. Winter Kills
11. Bring Your Love Down (Didn't I)

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