Buffalo Springfield Again as a hybrid stereo SACD from the Atlantic 75 Series, mastered by Chris Bellman direct to DSD from the original master tape. Ten tracks in one sequence – from “Mr. Soul” to the grand finale “Broken Arrow”.
A band pulled in every direction – gloriously
Buffalo Springfield Again sounds like several remarkable songwriters pushing one band in different directions at once. Stephen Stills, Neil Young and Richie Furay bring distinct melodic and emotional instincts, while the group’s voices and guitars hold everything together. Folk rock is the starting point – but country feeling, studio collage, orchestral colour and harder electric passages keep widening the frame.
“Everydays” suspends Stills’s melody over a subdued, jazz-tinged pulse, making quietness feel mysterious rather than soft. Young’s “Expecting To Fly” drifts into an orchestral dream, far from the sound of a conventional guitar band, and “Bluebird” grows from Stills’s acoustic picking into electric exchanges, rhythmic turns and harmonies that keep changing the song’s scale. Furay’s writing adds another kind of openness, so the album never becomes a simple contest between its two best-known figures.
The finale, “Broken Arrow”, assembles contrasting scenes, studio sounds and melodic fragments into a portrait of public image and private uncertainty – applause, shifting rhythms and sudden changes of perspective refuse the comfort of a straightforward ending. This variety is anything but a lack of focus: it captures a group whose individual imaginations were growing faster than one style could contain.
The Atlantic 75 hybrid stereo SACD
CAPA 024 SA is a hybrid stereo SACD from the Analogue Productions Atlantic 75 Series. According to the publisher, Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering mastered it direct to DSD from the original master tape; the publisher also highlights James Burton’s dobro on Furay’s “A Child’s Claim To Fame”. The SACD layer plays on SACD-capable players, the CD layer on any conventional CD player. The disc contains the ten tracks of the original album.
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