McCartney Times

Listeners (and, more so, consumers) accustomed to a world of refreshed and intimate Atmos sounds and heartily expanded albums in elaborate packaging know how the catalog of John Lennon—Beatle, husband to Yoko, solo artist—has become architectural in its new renderings: art pieces to behold beyond the necessity of their music and lyrics. Which comes to a head on this month’s stylized repackaging of Lennon’s self-produced and most-maligned recording, 1973’s Mind Games. Sold in one fabulously gluttonous iteration as a 30-pound Super Deluxe Edition cube, everything held within—including a Perspex reproduction of Yoko’s famed Danger Box art piece, interlocking puzzle blocks, and a wealth of Easter eggs—is designed to physically portray just what was going on inside the Lennon/Ono brain trust circa summer 1973 in New York City.

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Source: FLOOD – John Lennon, “Mind Games: The Ultimate Collection”