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    GEORGE HARRISON

    Jul 15, 2021 3 minutes
    By Tom Pinnock

    All Things Must Pass: 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition CAPITOL/UME

    10/10

    FOR a while now, 51 years maybe, there’s been talk of de-Spectorising All Things Must Pass, of wiping away the reverb like grime from a golden murti. Phil didn’t make it easy, though: rather than adding effects during mixing, the layers of echo that cloud this motherlode of songs and jams are often baked onto the tapes themselves.

    This 50th-anniversary edition, therefore, is not the clear and crisp version of that’s hovered in some people’s imaginations for decades like some audiophile. On this new mix by Paul Hicks, the fog is very much there, but a little daylight (good at arriving at the right time, you may recall) has been let in. The breadth and ambition of remain astounding in better definition: for a sense of scale, George’s contributions to the ‘White Album’ total 13 minutes, while is itself 13 minutes longer than the entirety of .

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