Uprising: Half-Speed Master Vinyl LP Will Varley “I assumed it was the

“I assumed it was the run-through

Created over the course of two years with a cast of 47 musicians – including a gospel choir and a 16-piece string orchestra – The Worm is less a concept album than a fully-fledged musical universe

Sean O’Hagen from The High Llamas

The raucous

comprising 10 new tracks

Uprising: Half-Speed Master Vinyl LP Will Varley “I assumed it was theABBEY ROADS world renowned engineers have been cutting grooves into discs since the studios first opened their doors in 1931. This record was pressed from a master cut using a precision technique known as half speed mastering. The procedure requires the source master and the cutting lathe to run at half speed on a specially adapted Neumann VMS 80 lathe. This rare and specialised technique transforms difficult to cut highend frequencies into relatively