To ensure that an opportunity to highlight the work of record stores at this critical time remains in place despite the postponement of Record Store Day, we will throw a day-long event featuring over 130 record stores, on 20th June.
The event will see dozens of new and re-issued vinyl releases being made available to music fans. The full list of releases can be found here, and record stores participating is now available to view here. Stores will make the releases available from 9am on the 20th of June and will be shipping on various dates soon after the event.
The world’s biggest online in-store event is also planned with 24-hours of live performances, DJ sets, interviews, readings and more from a wide range of artists and influential music industry figures and has been curated by a number of the world’s independent labels including:
Secretly Canadian, Jagjaguwar, Dead Oceans, ATO Records, Heavenly Recordings, Transgressive, Mute, Play It Again Sam, Bella Union, Speedy Wunderground, Partisan Records, Memphis Industries and Chrysalis amongst others.
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Limited release for Love record store day, one copy per customer.
2LP - Picture Disc.
CAT - RKIDLP70PD
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Limited release for love record stores, one copy per customer.
2 x Orange LP.
CAT -
RSTUMM390
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Nirvana’s 1989 debut album still remains the best-selling album to have ever been released by Sub Pop, who Nirvana were signed to before they made their major label jump for the game-changing Nevermind. Bleach is notable for its scrappy sound, which is rooted in the style of the Seattle grunge scene at the time, although songs like the classic ‘About A Girl’ offer glimpses into the more adventurous songwriting that Kurt Cobain would later develop. Bleach is also notable for featuring original drummer Chad Channing, who left after the album’s release and was replaced by Dave Grohl. The reissue features a bonus live album recorded in 1990.
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Limited release for Love record stores, one copy per customer.
Double white vinyl.
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Limited release for Love record stores, one copy per customer.
Exclusive Orange/Yellow Marbled Vinyl.
CAT -RTRAD065LPE
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Label: Play It Again Sam
Release date: 10.12.2021
Format Info: repress on blue vinyl
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Due out 10th September 2021.
Limited to 500 copies.
A limited edition release as part of Love Record Stores 2021. 1 x LP pressed on green tricolour vinyl (striped effect).
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Sub Pop release Low's Ones and Sixes. The album was co-produced by the band and engineer BJ Burton at Justin Vernon's April Base Studios in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The record nicely balances the band's trademark immediacy (Into You and Kid In The Corner) with more sprawling, experimental fare (the blistering, nearly 10-minute Landslide or DJ, a track that could be a spiritual cousin to Trust's Shots and Ladders). Throughout the record, electronic flourishes bubble under the surface while the cavernous-sounding guitars rip and echo around the corners. Low never let you down.
WHITE VINYL
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Limited release for Love record store day, 1 per customer.
LP - White Vinyl.
CAT - AJXLP450W
£24.00
To celebrate the Love Record Stores event Mr Bongo have created a special edition of the album. Pressed on clear vinyl, this single LP collectors’ item features their favourite tracks from the original album. Carolina is the Brazilian virtuoso Seu Jorge's debut full-length album from 2002. Originally released under the title ‘Samba Esporte Fino’, its release and subsequent international acclaim dovetailed with Seu Jorge’s ascent into movie stardom. He is probably best known outside of Brazil for his work on Wes Anderson’s 2004 film 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou’, in which he played a starring role and his Portuguese covers of David Bowie records were a highlight of the soundtrack. Having initially found fame thanks to his standout performance as Knockout Ned in the revered movie ‘City of God’. Carolina would cement his global fame and launch an illustrious musical career that has earnt him a Grammy nomination.
Co-produced by Mario Caldatto of Beastie Boys and Planet Hemp fame, the album presented a vibrant, contemporary combination of samba and funk, backed by guitar, bass, drums, percussion, and horns. It kicks off with one of Seu's most loved tracks 'Carolina', an anthemic feel-good classic with timeless energy, ending in a sing-along crescendo. Other highlights included the Brazilian-Funk of 'Mangueira' reminiscent in places of Tim Maia with its 80s inspired vibe, and the catchy jazzy-samba of 'Tu Queria' which always ignites the dance floor.
Clear vinyl
£23.00
You never hear anyone asking for a The Woodentops reunion but they were quite major players in the UK indie scene of the mid '80s. Leader Rolo McGinty went off at a tangent with this 1995 album as Pluto which saw him head off in an electronica / trance / house direction. The end result sounding more like Larry Heard or Terrence Parker than The Housemartins. Much deserved re-issue.
Deep blue vinyl, expanded reissue 2LP on Glass Modern.
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Bicep Logo Picture Disc + Print of Logo.
Two years in the making, Isles expands on the artful energy of their 2017 debut Bicep. It’s a record that encapsulates their 15 year career and the distillation of their passion for music and club culture while digging deeper into the sounds, emotions and experiences they had growing up in Belfast and living the past 10 years in London.
£31.99
20th anniversary edition. A stunning compilation of Jackie Mittoo, one of the defining figureheads of reggae music, and his years at Studio One. From forming the Skatalites, at age 15, alongside Don Drummond, Roland Alphonso, Tommy mMccook and others to his work as writer, arranger, producer at Studio One records during the sixties, writing and playing for artists such as Alton Ellis, Ken Boothe, Marcia Griffiths and the Heptones (to name a few), to his career as a solo artist as well as leader of bands such as the Soul Brothers, Soul Vendors and the Sound Dimension, Jackie Mittoo is at the heart of reggae music. He was one of the instigators of ska music, rocksteady and reggae. In the seventies, DJ music and dancehall were based upon classic rhythms of the sixties, many using the instrumental tracks that Jackie Mittoo created at Studio one at this time.
This compilation features the work of Jackie Mittoo at studio one. It features music recorded as a solo artist (as opposed to the numerous singers that he accompanied). most of these are taken from his recordings in the mid sixties where he was recording on an almost daily basis at Studio One's Brentford road studios developing the funky reggae sound that was his trademark.
2XLP (BLUE)
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Limited release for Love record stores, one copy per customer.
2 x sunset yellow vinyl.
PIASX062DLP