Alice In Chains – Sap

Not sure if European copies are generally better than the US ones or I was just lucky with my copy. Mine sounds fantastic, only a faint surface noise between tracks, no ticks, pops or anything. I've had much worse from MPO.

The music itself sounds warm, clear and dynamic and has a lot of air and life to it. This was cut by Chris Bellman and it's really on par with his fantastic 2021 cut of Facelift in my opnion. My only little complaint is that they didn't press this as a "real" 12" EP, which means double sided at 45 RPM.

I bought this on RSD and didn't think of it as a sought after collector's piece until I looked it up years later and saw for how much this is selling now. Makes kind of sense though, this is the only ever standalone vinyl release of this EP and the first reissue since 2010. Alice in Chains is just too big to release something like that only as a limited RSD release.

My copy came sealed and upon opening this to give it a listen, I noticed a very prominent warp in the vinyl which was making my needle jump slightly and there were hairline scratches that were present. Although these defects were present, it wasn't anything I couldn't fix with my vinyl flattener and a couple rounds of cleaning. It sounds good but nothing insane. I'm just glad mine is listenable and the defects were fixable.

Great sounding album, worth the grab, sounds super clean on my turntable

I recently acquired this edition, it sounds impeccable, defined, powerful and dynamic from start to finish (it doesn't suffer from igd, in fact Love Song sounds beautiful), the remaster and the cut are magnificent, and happily my copy has no distortion or background noise as described in other comments. The packaging, the printing and quality of the inner sleve are excelent, suring the Jar of Flies reissue in everything. Chris Bellman is A+

Found at a local record shop, absolutely none of the issues described in other comments here are contained on my pressing. Excellent sound, no pops, very clean.

Can anyone confirm whether Brother and Am I Inside feature Ann Wilson?

I ask because the 2024 reissue of Alice In Chains - Music Bank rather than the original mix.

A comment on the sub for the new JoF vinyl states that: "At around the 2 minute mark, there's an extra violin flourish before the lyrics come in" and "It appears the band used the same version of I Stay Away for this pressing as they did for Music Bank"

IF ANYONE IS THINKING ABOUT PAYING THE $50 MINIMUM PEOPLE ARE ASKING…. DONT!!!

THE absolute worst sounding/quality record i own. cleaned and brushed 4 times and still pops and almost scratchy sounds out the ass! not sure how it’s even possible. the music sounds pretty good but the vinyl is abysmal. it’s not even worth the wax it’s printed on. i pray to god the inevitable jar of flies reissue isn’t this bad

at $15 retail i may be able to forgive it. but how a record like this brings in $50+ consistently astounds me.

0/10 for ruining a great EP with horrible horrible quality control

someone please sell me this for not a %400 markup.

My copy sounds fantastic. No static, no drag. The only issue is it’s maybe a little bit quiet, but I turned it up to -42 dB and it sounds fantastic.

Fluance RT-81 TT
Ortofon 2M blue stylus
Fluance PA-10 preamp
Pioneer VSX-516 Receiver
Marantz SX-9 Speakers
Klipsch R-101 SW

Maybe just my copy but four trips through the ultrasonic and it still has heavy static at the last two tracks. Have played it on three different tables and same result.