PETER GABRIEL 2 (SCRATCH) (LIMITED EDITION 180GM/45RPM VINYL REISSUE)

Limited Edition, Remastered Double 180gm Vinyl Gatefold Versions Of His First Four, Groundbreaking Solo Albums!
Peter Gabriel's first four self-titled solo albums will be made available on 180gm vinyl for the first time since 2002. The first three albums are affectionately known as 'Car,' 'Scratch' and 'Melt' due to their iconic Hipgnosis designed covers, while the fourth album is entitled 'Security.'
The second album, Peter Gabriel also known as 'Scratch,' followed in June 1978, with Robert Fripp installed as producer. Fripp continued to feed Peter's growing fascination with electronics (see the use of 'Frippertronics' on the track "Exposure"), and the resulting album is denser and more experimental than the debut.
Writing in the NME, Nick Kent said, "closer to the root of the album, there's a purity of strength to the songs individual enough to mark Gabriel out as a man whose creative zenith is close at hand."
"I really wanted the first record to be different from what I'd done with Genesis so we were trying to do things in different styles," says Peter Gabriel. "A bit of barbershop, which Tony Levin helped with, there were more bluesy things, a variety of songs and arrangements that were consciously trying to provide something different than what I'd done before."
Much expertise and care was taken when remastering the albums, resulting in incredible audio for not just Peter Gabriel fans, but for the music community at large. All the albums have been Half-Speed Remastered and cut to lacquers at 45RPM, across two heavyweight 180g LPs to deliver maximum dynamic sound range. The vinyl was cut by Matt Colton at Alchemy Mastering, mastered by Tony Cousins at Metropolis and overseen by Peter Gabriel's main sound engineer Richard Chappell.
The vinyl editions will be gatefold sleeves, utilizing imagery from the initial first LP pressings, sourced and re-scanned from original artwork. Each album comes as a limited edition and all are individually numbered. The albums include download cards with a choice of digital download (Hi-Res 24-bit/96k or 16-bit/44.1k).