- Most copies are washed-out, recessed, and lack weight, but this one will show you just how right this music can sound
- The producing-engineering team of Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut return to provide top quality Rumours-like production
- The album spent five weeks at Number One, probably on the strength of the amazingly fun single “Hold Me.”
- If you’re a fan of the band, a killer copy of their 1982 release might just need a home in your collection, and is the last Fleetwood Mac album that we would recommend to anyone but the most diehard fan
- The albums to come later — Tango in the Night (1987). Behind the Mask (1990), Time (1995) and Say You Will (2003) — have never been offered as Hot Stamper pressings, a fact that is unlikely to change
- Like Tusk, this is a Digital Recording that sounds great on vinyl
Mirage is a surprisingly good album if you can find the right copy.
The mids and highs can be really silky and sweet. The whole album has a glossy sound, clearly the influence of Lindsay Buckingham and his production team. The sound of Fleetwood Mac in this period is their doing, and with a phenomenal run of success that’s rarely been seen in pop history, it’s hard to argue with either their approach to the material or the sound. It strikes us that they used every track on the multi-track recorder and then some. (more…)