Rubber Soul at 61 gets a fresh mix
Rubber Soul has been lopsided for 61 years. On the 1965 stereo mix the voices are parked on one side and the instruments are scattered across the rest. On headphones it is like eavesdropping on two different rooms. On 2 October that changed. Giles Martin and engineer Sam Okell released a new stereo mix on Apple Music, rebuilt from the original four-track tapes. It is also on Spotify. I haven’t done my proper listen yet.