Heartbreakers’ . EXPLAINER: The Found Masters ~ ’Born To Lose’ new clear audio!

FOUND IN AN ATTIC - a punk rock archaeological discovery: a copy master of the original 1977 Track Records tape, without ’mud’! This classic punk album, recorded in London by the New York band featuring two New York Dolls, was always controversial - and not just for the acronym. Upon release on Track Records in 1977, it was universally condemned in the music press for having a ’muddy mix’ - later found to be a mastering fault. When Track went bust the following year, manager Leee Black Childers managed to burgle the Track Records’ Carnaby Street office and liberated the tapes that belonged to him and the band - he found everything except the master-tape. Subsequent releases were remixed from the multi-tracks (’Revisted’, 1984) or compiled from outtake mixes - the ’lost ’77 mixes’ (1994) being the version most known since. A lift from the vinyl for a ’definitive’ box set still didn’t achieve much clarity. Meanwhile, fans found the 1977 cassette version didn’t have the infamous ’mud’, nor did certain Euro