DIRE STRAITS MAKING MOVIES MFSL 2-468 180 gram 45rpm Double Audiophile LP A Numbered, Limited-Edition, 180-gram LP, Sourced from Original Master Tapes. Released in 1980, Dire Straits' Making Movies expand their musical framework and the band come into its own.   Co-Produced by Jimmy Iovine, Making Movies is a thematic album that soars with personal songwriting and epic arrangements. Bruce Springsteen pianist Roy Bittan, Mark Knopfler's guitar playing, and passionate performances turn Making Movies into a classic that includes “Romeo and Juliet,” “Tunnel of Love,” and “Solid Rock.” Love Over Gold is all about contrast, tension, and crafty composition.   Dire Straits' fourth album finds the band continuing to evolve by welcoming increasingly bold arrangements and exploring moody variations.   Parts edgy and sharp, and part seductive and relaxed, the five lengthy songs on Love Over Gold sprawl out like a long, winding road cutting through a pastoral landscape.   The addition of a new rhythm guitarist, Hal Lindes, encourages deeper atmospheric interplay while the presence of engineer Neil Dorfsman - his first appearance in what would be a long string of collaborations with Mark Knopfler - ensures stunning sonic properties that now come to life like never before. Mastered from the original master tapes and pressed at RTI, Mobile Fidelity's 180g 45RPM 2LP version of Love Over Gold teems with superb balances, front-to-back soundstages, and crystalline purity.   The dead-quiet surfaces and extra-wide grooves bring forward previously obscured details, extra information, and mastering-studio-quality transients.   The distinctive textures of a host of instruments - marimbas, acoustic and electric guitars, vibes, synthesizers - further enhance the ambitiousness of the 1982 album. On this audiophile pressing, everything Knopfler does seemingly turn to gold. Gearheads will hear the unique characteristics afforded by his use of a Mesa Boogie Mark II guitar amplifier (soon again employed on Brothers in Arms) and carefully chosen selection of Schecter Stratocasters, 1937 National steel guitar, and Ovation six - and twelve-string models.   Reference-level separation and lifelike imaging place Knopfler and company in your room, while tube-like warmth, spaciousness, and airiness causes the music to breathe anew. It doesn't take long to realize Love Over Gold is like no other Dire Straits album - and a staunch proclamation of independence from a band that continued to take longer creative strides with each successive project.   Fearlessly extending over metaphoric hills, valleys, and plains for nearly 14-and-a-half minutes, the opening “Telegraph Road” is a guitar hero's dream and exhilarating showcase for Lindes' give-and-take capabilities.   In tandem with keyboardist Alan Clark, Lindes provides the ideal foil for not only Knopfler but the long-time rhythm section of bassist John Illsley and drummer Pick Withers. Taking its time to arrive at destinations, the quintet paints evocative musical and lyrical portraits steeped in patience, drama, and, often times, sadness.   Desolate emotions color the sweeping “Telegraph Road” and barren “Private Investigations,” which finds Knopfler in the role of a tired private eye contemplating the emptiness and scars of his profession.   Vocally, the Dire Straits leader remains in top form throughout, his whiskey-coated rasp conveying romantic ache, ongoing frustration, and what Rolling Stone beautifully deemed “wracking schizophrenia between the heart and the heartless, the loving and the pain.” Called Dire Straits' prog-rock statement, Love Over Gold is a classic that defies labeling and avoids aging. 1. Tunnel Of Love 2. Romeo And Juliet 3. Skateaway 4. Expresso Love 5. Hand In Hand 6. Solid Love 7. Les Boys Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab recordings are distributed in Australia by Rockian Trading