IT'S GETTING GROOOOOOVY UP IN HERE!
whether you’re a professional record collector or someone who only recently got into the art of telling your mates “look at what i snagged at rough trade today” (no judgements here), record store day is an event that many eagerly anticipate each year.
With less than a week to go until nearly three hundred independent record shops across the uk celebrate, we’ve rounded up some of the records on our wishlist – and ones you should consider, too.
RACHEL Chinouriri — Better Off Without
10″ vinyl
rachel chinouriri is the next big thing. facts. she’s a creative force ready to shine bright, and now her fans will have a chance to add her better off without ep to their vinyl collection for the first time.
good neighbours — live at the village underground
lp vinyl
there just aren’t enough vinyl pressings of live albums and performances… which is a real shame given how good they can be. safe to say you’ll be coming home with us, ‘live at the village underground’.
TAYLOR SWIFT — FORTNIGHT
7″ white vinyl
if you’re lucky enough to find a store that still has these in stock, well, you know what to do.
flying lotus — spirit box
lp vinyl
spirit box might not be an album you’d expect to have a record of, let alone play on a turntable, but that doesn’t make its first-ever vinyl release any less exciting.
this five-track project is a mind-bending, room-shaking musical odyssey – and we, for one, can’t wait to acquire a physical copy of it.
THE VERONICAS — The Secret Life Of
lp vinyl
quite literally a “hear me out” moment. the veronicas had both us, gen zs, and our predecessors millennials in an intergenerational chokehold. there’s nothing quite like screaming at the top of your lungs to ‘everything i’m not’ and ‘4ever’.
YEARS & YEARS — COMMUNION
lp zoetrope vinyl
communion is arguably one of the best projects that years & years have ever released. from ‘real’ to ‘desire’, it’s one pop banger after another. and when the music is this good, consider us fully converted.
GRACIE ABRAMS — Live From Radio City Music Hall
2lp
featuring twenty-two tracks spanning across abrams’s debut album good riddance and its successor the secret of us, this record store day-exclusive will offer her fans a chance to experience their favourite bedroom pop soundscapes in a brand-new way.
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