Slint – Spiderland

Mastering wise it’s spot on, deep and rich. Press is warped, my stylus rides the waves and hangs in there. Plenty of little crackles, straight out of the packaging, haven’t tried a clean yet.

Mine also came warped but it doesn’t affect play. It also came without any surface noise, side A being mostly quiet but side B was riddled with pops and clicks, especially on Washer which is quite unfortunate. I held the disc to the light and it has some residue sprinkled throughout which I think is causing it. Hopefully a deeper clean can bring this one back. Sound is incredibly good and is worthy of the price of ission. John Golden always does a great cutting job.

Great soundstage, but warped and quite noisy. Not really acceptable.
EDIT 70% quiet (condition of most modern pressings IME) after a machine cleaning

With a Microline stylus a get no surface nosie. A couple of clicks and pops between some songs but that's all. Soundstage is great.

My copy is slightly warped, otherwise fantastic sound and no surface noise at all after a cleaning

A good cleaning did wonders for this pressing at least for me.

Unfortunately there’s surface noise and it’s super warped. Pretty disappointing because it’s one of my favourite albums. I’d avoid this pressing.

I have a few of these Green Vinyl pressings, and they're pretty noisy - no 'pops' per se, but lots of squiggles, hisses, and short whooshes - bad noise characteristics, I would say, and nowhere near 'audiophile' - I'll take PVC over PET any day.....and another thing, anytime you recycle plastic you make the plastic more toxic than ever....so much for "eco"....!

Ah man, my copy has so much surface noise. Cleaning hasn't helped. Not the record to cope with noise either - quiet space is crucial on Spiderland.
Could just be my copy. But I'm going to try a different press when I find one.