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- Record Label: Interscope
- Release Date: Nov 14, 2025
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- Record Label: Interscope
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Dec 5, 2025The album still sounds sharp and lively. Porcupine Tree frontman and remixer to the stars Steven Wilson zhuzhed up the master tapes just enough to let the instrumentation breathe a little more without altering the songs themselves. .... Ultimately, though, the included recordings from the band’s 1976 residency at London’s Earls Court (excerpts of which came out on Love You Live) show why Wood was the perfect choice for the band.
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UncutDec 5, 2025[The new remix] is sympathetic and subtly revelatory. .... However, there is one near-unforgivable gaff: on "Hot Stiff", around 2 mins 50, just as Mick comes back after Keith's scribbling wah-wah solo, the new mix inexplicably omits the word "Hot", hitting is only with a mighty - "Stuff!" [Review of the Year, p.41]
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Record CollectorDec 5, 2025Ultimately. Black And White deserves this bells-and-whistles resuscitation (though collectors may be stretched by Zoetrope and marbleised wax incarnations!). [Christmas 2025, p.129]
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Classic Rock MagazineDec 5, 2025Black And Blue is the sound of an enduring rock’n’roll firm updating the business. .... Expanded versions of this reissue include loose workouts with Jeff Beck, who entertained himself on the Meters-like funk of Rotterdam Jam. [Jan 2026, p.84]