Forever Changes

• Ranked #40 on Rolling Stone’s List of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
• Love Anticipates Late 1960s Turbulence Via Prophetic Songs and Dark Themes
• Mastered from the Original Master Tapes: Mobile Fidelity’s Hybrid SACD Opens Up Scale of Lush Orchestral Architecture and Elegant Baroque Textures

Any discussion about the finest psychedelic rock record ever recorded is incomplete if it doesn’t grant consideration to Love’s Forever Changes. Ranked by Rolling Stone as the 40th greatest album ever made, and named by Mojo the second-greatest
psychedelic set in history, the effort is an internationally recognized seminal work of art. Commercially ignored upon release in November 1967, it confronts the alienation, paranoia, violence, and strife that would soon plague the countercultural movement and send the Summer of Love into a tailspin. Apart from its lyrical themes and prescient malaise, the album’s enduring nature equally
owes to intertwined arrangements sewn together with Latin guitarpicked lines, finessed folk harmonies, mariachi-inspired horn charts, and subdued strings. The seemingly opposing combination—ominous, dark reflections situated amidst lush, light melodic beds—affords Forever Changes a distinguished tension of claustrophobia and openness, dourness and ecstasy, ugliness and elegance
enjoyed by no other record in the rock canon. Mastered from the original master tapes, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered limited-edition hybrid SACD affords the masterpiece the white-gloves treatment and golden-hued sonics it has always
deserved. Nearly unlimited headroom, vast instrumental separation, transparent clarity, artifact-free atmospherics, and faithful balances appear out of jet-black backgrounds. The music appears to float on clouds, with the woody tones emanated by cavities of the acoustic guitars and brassy signatures of horns emerging with lifelike detail. Turn this version of Forever Changes up as loud as you want; the
sole limitation will be your stereo’s potential.