Daryl Hall & John Oates – Private Eyes (1981) [MFSL 2014] {SACD ISO + FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz}

Hall & Oates were in the middle of recording Private Eyes when Voices suddenly, unexpectedly broke big, with “Kiss on My List” reaching number one not just on the Billboard charts, but in Cashbox and Record World. As the album’s producer, Neil Kernon, admits in Ken Sharp’s liner notes to the 2004 reissue of the album, everybody knew that the new record would have to do better than Voices, but even if Hall & Oates were under a lot of pressure, they were in the fortunate position of not just having reintroduced their modernized, new wave-influenced blue-eyed soul on their previous record, but they already had much of the material nailed down. In other words, the sound and songs on Private Eyes were essentially conceived when the group was confident of the artistic breakthrough of Voices but not swaggering with the overconfidence of being the biggest pop act in America, and the result is one of their best albums and one of the great mainstream pop albums of the early ’80s. Hall & Oates don’t repeat the formula of Voices; they expand it, staying grounded in pop-soul but opening up the stylized production, so it sounds both cinematic and sharp. Lots of subtle effects are layered on the voices, guitars, and pianos as they mingle with synthesized instruments, from the keyboard loops that give “Head Above Water” a restless momentum to the drum machine that lends “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)” a sexy, seductive groove.

Tracklist:
01. Private Eyes
02. Looking For A Good Sign
03. I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)
04. Mano A Mano
05. Did It In A Minute
06. Head Above Water
07. Tell Me What You Want
08. Friday Let Me Down
09. Unguarded Minute
10. Your Imagination
11. Some Men

Mastered by Rob LoVerde at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Sebastopol, CA.

SACD ISO

mqs.link_HallatesPrivateEyes1981MFSL2014SACDIS.part1.rar
mqs.link_HallatesPrivateEyes1981MFSL2014SACDIS.part2.rar

FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz

mqs.link_HallatesPrivateEyes1981MFSL2014FLAC2488.2.rar