Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		4.0
Video		0.0
Audio		4.5
Extras		0.0
Overall		4.0

Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman August 25, 2025

A little over a year ago Rhino offered fans a really nice new Atmos version of Fleetwood Mac: Rumours, and the label is back now with the band's (second) eponymous album, this one from 1975 (two years before Rumours), and an album which maybe infamously offered the first Fleetwood Mac pairing (?) of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks (the two were already involved and had previously released their own duo album). The album is kind of famous for its rather long gestational period which finally resulted in it capturing the Number 1 spot on the Hot 200 albums chart by Billboard, over a year after its initial release. That actually may hint subliminally as to the "long lived" quality of the songs, which include some of the band's best remembered efforts like Rhiannon and Landslide.

The album's track list can be seen in the screenshots of the disc menu I've uploaded to accompany this review. See the video section below for a bit more on the disc's authoring.

Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

This is another audio Blu-ray from Rhino with a static menu. The one consistent complaint I have with these releases (and which has been voiced by other audiophiles emailing or private messaging me about Rhino's releases) is a totally bizarre lack of consistency in the authoring of how to access the different audio codecs. This is another unfortunate example of Rhino authoring the disc so that you need to scroll through the track list to get to the codec choices, and choose there. Making things worse is the fact that changing the codec starts the song over. What's so patently weird about this is Rhino authored Rumours "correctly" (that's a joke) so that the colored buttons on your remote allow instant access to the different codecs (this type of authoring tends to usually not start the song over on Rhino's releases). One way or the other, the screenshots show how scrolling through the track names changes the look of the font.

Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Fleetwood Mac is presented with three really appealing audio versions, Dolby Atmos, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0. The two surround offerings significantly open up the proceedings, though channelization of various instruments is sometimes a bit unusual (for example, the cymbals / hi-hats are positioned simultaneously front left and rear right on occasion). This is frankly not the showiest Atmos mix I've listened to, and it may not even reach the immersive capabilities of Rumours, with (as with the earlier audio Blu-ray) vocals typically anchored pretty solidly toward the front, but at times without much other than ambient spill filling the rear channels, at least until the full retinue of rhythm instruments kicks in. There's really appealing spaciousness in both the Atmos and 5.1 versions, and this is one disc where some may actually prefer the "traditional" 5.1 mix to the Atmos version, as to my ears it offers a somewhat more focused but still immersive accounting of the album.

Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

As tends to be the case with these "album ports", there are no on disc supplements. The keepcase has a whimsical inner print of the penguin images, and an insert leaflet also has a glut of penguins along with lyrics and production credits.

Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

In the closing comments of my Fleetwood Mac: Rumours Blu-ray review, I shared a kind of funny anecdote I experienced vis a vis a former personal assistant to Stevie Nicks who decided life as a temporary secretary in Portland was preferable to working for a perceived diva. This particular version of Fleetwood Mac may sound at times like it's still finding its sea (and/or C) legs on this album, something that would probably mature and be less "wobbly" by the time Rumours appeared a few years later. Nonetheless, at least the standout single tracks in particular are obviously very memorable, and the entire album receives really enjoyable new Atmos and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 versions here, along with the original stereo version in lossless audio. Recommended.