Definitely agree with whoever mentioned Slowdive's
Souvlaki - that is an incredible album. One of the albums I'll just listen while on the bike and just shut everything out. Great when you're feeling really down about stuff oddly. I remember one review on Amazon said never listen to after a break up, you'll want to throw yourself off a cliff
Ride's
Nowhere is great too! Not quite as good as
Souvlaki i find but damn there's some great songs on there, Seagull's definitely one of my favourites. found a live version on YouTube though and jesus
CHRIST they cannot pull that off on stage.
I'm different in that I worry about things like that
quite a few bands have had their music
butchered when its remastered. At least digitally. Mastering engineers will overcompress it and boost the volume so all the subtleties of the music are just lost and everything's forced to the front.
There's no dynamic range and it's one of the reasons people (like me) who seem annoying for saying they prefer vinyl (and analogue remasters if we're lucky to get that - see the 2006 vinyl re-issue Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92) are actually right because it honestly sounds better!
Older CDs, for example the late 80s CD issues of the Beatles that were being sold for
twenty fucking years before remastering, are not, as you say, "non-mastered". The process of mastering music these days is just incredibly different and, as you may already know, there's the issue of that damn 'Loudness War' that's lead to most music you hear these days, including 'remasters' sounding god-awful.
you may already know all of what i've just said, in which case i apologise if i've come off as a patronising wanker. however give this a watch if you haven't done before
YouTube - The Loudness War
but all I can say is I very much doubt Kevin Shields will let his music be ruined like that. his ear led to that album taking as long as it did, so i'm not surprised remastering the damn thing's taking just as long!
but to go back to the point you made originally, there's nothing to say that it won't be louder than the original issue, i just doubt he'll let it be pushed to the volume others might prefer