I had a quick listen on headphones, i also have been a fan of Primus since two dozen years, btw.
The music is great, but it's likely better to listen to the album as a whole on stereo speakers.
I have used a pair of beyerdynamic dt-770 pro, no equalizer or whatsoever effects on my notebook's main analog out.
It was pretty exhausting to listen to the pinpoint-like separation of instruments and voices, in stereo placement as well as frequency spectrum and "room" definition, and also slightly glassy quality of the overall sound. This might sound really good on tube amps/speakers that add plenty of "glue" to audio material. I'll have to listen to it again on my analog stereo, but the kids are sleeping.
Thanks for the link.
(out of merit)
Keep in mind that Youtube is crap for hifi.
I have a lossless version that sounds stellar with decent headphones and a headphone amp. Can easily discern all instruments and effects with no effort and can properly sense the spatial placements of the sounds as well.
Though of course if your stereo setup beats your headphone setup you'll enjoy it through that much more. I'd recommend getting the album or checking out TPB for flacs.
Definitely second listening through the whole album in one go though. That's how prog rock albums are meant to be listened to anyways, for a good reason.
They're more like movies for your ears than songs.
Well, the quality was sufficient for basic judgement, but after listening over the studio monitors + sub from a decent focusrite audio interface, i could pinpoint two aspects of this "problem".
1. It's a modern production, very clear and with a good amount of stereo imaging/widening. Nothing wrong with that. But:
2. I discovered, while listening to older material in comparison, that my brain hard wired prog and psychedelic rock and "dirty" oldscool sound. So in the case of this album i just wasn't used to material like kyuss and the likes to sound so damn clear and well defined. Call me old fashioned, but i seem to expect tape saturated sound with certain types of rock music. I had similar "problems" (which weren't really problematic) with the newer stuff by the red hot chili peppers back then, it sounded too thin to me, while it was nearly perfect from a modern production type of view.
Not to say, listening to the music itself, as my mind got used to the new sound, is a pleasing sonic adventure
EDIT: Forgot that this production is way more easy on the ears via speakers, compared to headphones. Too much stereo/separation going on for me. Miss my good old mono/stereo switch like i had on almost any analog mixer that i have touched before.