Hello lovely people, it's James,
and today I'm here to do a vinyl haul. This one's quite belated because half of these are from like Record Store Day back in
like late April and it's now July, so it's been a bit. But
regardless, I finally got around to doing this - and then like half of these I picked up like in the months afterward.
So let's go ahead and jump in with the first one, which is 22, A Million by Bon Iver.
I don't know if I like this more than For Emma, Forever Ago or not. They're both very different albums.
This one's very strange, but it's wonderful and Bon Iver's one of my favourite musicians. So I was so happy to pick this up.
It's just such a beautiful album.
If you're into I guess it's kind of experimental or just beautiful music definitely give this a listen. Next is an Analphabetapolothology - I
said that right, that took 20 tries - but this is sort of a compilation by Cap'n Jazz with most of their recordings.
I think the vinyl version has a few left off that the CD version has on it,
but for the most part it contains most of their most important work, at least the vinyl version is - the CD version
has like all of their songs except for one I think - but this has like their full-length, some of their splits and everything.
It's just wonderful. It's one of my favorite like
first wave of emo bands, it's just wonderful and absolutely worth a
listen. If you're into stuff like American Football, you will love this. Next is Uroboric Forms - The Complete Demo Recordings by Cynic.
These are some of the best things Cynic has done, personally, like their demos are just absolutely fantastic; though
I do love all of their subsequent albums,
these are just something else. And this is pressed on a wonderful red if I can get it out, and it comes with like
the LP, it comes with a 7-inch, and some like liner notes,
it's a really cool package, and I was so happy to see this like in the flesh.
Nice red. Um, I think I picked this one up at Grimey's in Nashville on Record Store Day,
though it's not a Record Store Day exclusive, and I only got two exclusives,
but anyway.
I was so happy to see this that I grabbed it up immediately, because this is some of my favorite
like progressive death metal stuff I've ever heard. Next is Low by David Bowie.
This is one of my favorite albums by him, and I don't hear it mentioned quite as much as some of this other stuff.
It's a bit more experimental. It's one of the Brian Eno albums and it's very
interesting, but it's wonderful.
Like I don't even know how to put this one into words, like David Bowie's
just fantastic all around, but this album is something else. Next is Through the Mirror by Endon.
This is like harsh noise meets grindcore.
It's a very abrasive record, but it's just one of the best of its style and it's produced by Kurt Ballou,
so of course, it's great. But this is absolutely worth your listen if you're into more chaotic styles of music.
It's just wonderful, one of the best, like, albums
I've heard, like, with harsh noise influence in a long time.
Speaking of like harsh grindcore next is Full of Hell and Merzbow with their collaboration album.
This is - I can't, I can never decide what my favorite Full of Hell album is, but this one's definitely
one of the ones that I go between, because it's just it's so abrasive and heavy and just
fantastic. Next, for a complete shift in tone, and this is Nightbirds by LaBelle, the amazing girl group fronted by Patti LaBelle.
Wonderful. Wonderful. I don't even know what else to say about. It's just it's great. Next is one I actually pre-ordered,
this is Part the Second by maudlin of the well. This is their final album and it's very much different from like the two albums
they're known for: Bath and Leaving Your Body Map. It's more of a progressive rock direction. [crinkling of plastic] I'm sorry, this is very loud
but I forgot to take it out of the
plastic. This is an amazing like pressing but it's very much different than those two albums.
But it's still wonderful, and now i'm only lacking Bath to have all four albums. I really need to find a copy of that and
maybe they should repress it
like they did this because I was so happy to see that this was being repressed.
And this is a really cool pressing, you know, with this like blue and clear split with this yellow in the middle of it.
Next is How Big the Space by Steven Wilson. This is a single and it was a Record Store Day exclusive.
It's basically just like a non-album track from his previous album - what's it called?
shoot. I have it, I should know the title of it, but I was completely blanking on it.
I'm going to keep talking until I figure it out in my head, and I'm still not not thinking of it.
Maybe it says on the back - no idea.
To the Bone. There it is.
So it's like a single, like B-side basically to that, and it also has the like Ninet version of People Who Eat Darkness and
the instrumental version of How Big the Space. And this one is a really cool blue and I was very happy to see this. Steven Wilson
is like a top tier musician for me,
so I grabbed this up when I saw it in
Grimey's. Next is Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens, one of my favorite albums by him.
It's just such a like melancholic, beautiful piece of music that I don't even know how to put into words, really.
But if you haven't heard this, you have to like put down everything and go give this a listen. The other Record Store Day
exclusive I grabbed was Die Tür ist zu by Swans.
This one's a really weird like compilation, EP, whatever you want to call it by Swans. Like it has
German versions of some of their songs that - all my records are falling over if you heard that I apologize.
It has like German versions of some of their songs, like more drone-ier versions of some of the tracks.
It's just a really weird compilation, but it's wonderful and actually one of my favorite releases by them.
Next is Is Survived By by Touché Amoré.
I picked this one up when I saw them live at the end of May, and that was the last concert
I've been to and I'm really thirsting for another concert, but that's neither here nor here. Just a
phenomenal album, and it's on this really cool like
transparent green pressing, and it's also like 180 gram like it's really heavy. So that's nice. But I just I really love that
variation. Next is one I showed in like my vlog when I got it,
but I wanted to put it in here again because it was just so cool. This is errorzone by Vein.
This is their debut full-length album, came out this year,
it's my favorite heavy album of the year and my second favorite album overall behind Janelle's Dirty Computer, which is just the best. This is
just really cool, like, I don't even know, like nu-metal inspired metalcore,
hardcore, it just mixes a lot of stuff and it's just done so well. And the pressing of this is just absolutely crazy,
I love it so much.
That's just beautiful.
Penultimately is White Light/White Heat by The Velvet Underground. This band needs no introduction - Lou Reed,
wonderful. It's probably my second favorite album by them behind The Velvet Underground & Nico, it's just
like almost post-punky,
it's just really really great,
and I love it. And lastly is actually another one of my favorite albums of the year and another one I pre-ordered. I
like supported the IndieGogo campaign for this album last year and as you can see this version is signed. I just -
I don't even know what to call this.
It's sort of a mix of like gypsy jazz and electronic music, and I don't even know, it's just so wonderful and
interesting and one of the best instrumental albums I've heard in years
honestly. So that was my belated vinyl haul. If you have any thoughts on the records I mentioned let me know in the comments below,
and let me know a recent record you picked up.
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