Brilliant record day today and a wonderful setup for tomorrow
. The two packs of
Mofi inners arrived three weeks earlier than expected so, with tomorrow being free and the below (plus the rest of my uncleaned collection), can enjoy another full day of cleaning and spinning new records
. Absolute bliss! Love these things so much and feels great to slip a freshly cleaned and spun record into one.
Now onto the goodies
. Two thirds of my "VMP Catch-up" order arrived today from that sale a month ago! For all their faults have to commend VMP on the packaging this time, came in a box tightly packed with two wraps of very thick bubble wrap. Everything looks mint so far bar a minor ding on Loretta Lynn, which I can excuse.
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Starting off we have
Waiting for Little Milton by Little Milton. Saw this in the sale and played a couple of tracks of it that sounded amazing so here it is, very excited for this one. I was really impressed by the other Aretha record I got from VMP so have followed it up with
Aretha Now by Aretha Franklin. She's a favourite of my partner so, in addition to being one I wanted anyway, was a useful distraction from the volume of records around it
Aside from a brief period of being into Iggy Pop in my late teens I really have very little exposure to The Stooges.
The Stooges by The Stooges by VMP was a well received record and thought it would be a nice addition to the collection even if it ends up being more of a niche itch to scratch!
Africa Brasil by Jorge Ben is completely new, as is Jorge Ben as a whole to me. I only listened to brief snippets of it and it sounded far more raw and direct than I was expecting in my head. Part of all of this is pushing the boat out a bit on my musical experience and getting out of the comfort zone. These two are further continuations on this line of thought, and I'm looking forward to giving them each their time
Going back to a little more comfort but still someone I haven't given much time as a whole; we have
Bella Donna by Stevie Nicks. Gorgeous design on this one and very pleased to finally have it in my hands to play soon.
Saints and Sebastian Stories by Konradsen was a pick that came out of wondering what I should swap to after the swap exclusives bungle last month. Playing a few tracks from various artists my partner and I were hit by the opening couple of tracks to this. It was cheaper ($17) in the store so I added it to the order
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I liked one of the Youth Lagoon releases awhile ago and it caught my eye that this is what he was going by now. The packaging and variant looked absolute
and it was cheap in the sale so I needed little more excuse to grab and check out
Mulberry Violence by Trevor Powers. Similar to Konradsen above, Jackie Cohen was another I was checking out at the time and again the first couple of tracks hit the right notes. So here we also have
Tacoma Night Terror by Jackie Cohen.
I needed something a little more earthly and homely in the collection and not having much experience within Country music either I thought these sounded like they would make for great additions
Similar to a lot of the other genres I can say similar for I've always liked it when I've caught it but never pursued it actively. So we'll start with
Our Mother The Mountain by Townes Van Zandt and
Fist City by Loretta Lynn and see where they take me!
Finally we have
Very Necessary by Salt N' Pepa, an outstanding item from my other subscription and one I'm welcome to see after reading positive things from people that have spun it. Not what I would have picked were it not for VMP but when life gives you limes make a Mojito right? After that we have the soundtrack to
First Man by Justin Herwitz. I love this film, I love that cover art and I love the concept of the record itself having Earth as the label and silver/grey for the space around it
. Pressing reviews are heavily mixed which I knew beforehand so this is more a design piece than a specifically audio one. We'll see when it gets spun, but in either case I'm happy to have it in the collection!
Tomorrow is going to be a cracking day. So much to clean and listen to, can't wait!