Beatles: Revolver

Revolver was the Beatles' seventh studio album and their last recording project before they retired as live performers so they could spend more time focusing on their artistic development and personal interests. With Revolver, the Beatles continued to experiment with the music they were creating in the studio. Besides the inclusion of diverse sounds, the songs reflect the influence of psychedelic drugs and increased lyrical sophistication. Revolver was a pioneering album in many ways for the Beatles and the industry as a whole, as their use of varispeeding, reversed tapes, close audio miking, automatic double tracking (ADT), and musical instrumentation that was typically outside the band's normal live set.

Besides the critical acclaim Revolver received for its music, the album's cover artwork won the 1967 Grammy Award for Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts. The album is well known for advancing the development of pop music into subgenres such as psychedelic rock, electronica, progressive rock and world music. The album was ranked first in Colin Larkin's book All-Time Top 1000 Albums and third in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

TRACK LIST
1. Taxman
2. Eleanor Rigby
3. I'm Only Sleeping
4. Love You To
5. Here, There And Everywhere
6. Yellow Submarine
7. She Said She Said
8. Good Day Sunshine
9. And Your Bird Can Sing
10. For No One
11. Dr. Robert
12. I Want To Tell You
13. Got To Get You Into My Life
14. Tomorrow Never Knows

Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs released revolver as a part of their Original Master Recording series in 1986. Mastered from the original stereo master tapes at half-speed and pressed on high quality vinyl using lacquers cut by the Ortofon Cutting System, Revolver is widely considered one of MOFI's crowning audiophile achievements from their Beatles catalog. Much like the original UK pressing, MOFI's version of Revolver has nice musical separation, clarity, punchiness, and dynamic range. The vinyl is also exceptionally quiet. This is quite possibly the best stereo version of the album available. However, if you are more of a traditionalist and prefer mono, you may want to look to the 2014 release. 💰

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