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The Long Live Vinyl team’s favourite albums of 2019

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2O19 LONG LIVE VINYL ALBUMS OF THE YEAR

100 albums, but there can only be one winner. With the help of an expert panel of fellow vinyl obsessives, Long Live Vinyl hereby humbly present our annual shopping list to take directly to your local record shop…

How Was 2019 For You?

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2O19 LONG LIVE VINYL REISSUES OF THE YEAR

From Japanese ambient to funky gospel, from postpunk to electrified jazz-rock, it’s been a strong and diverse year for both reissues and compilations

2O19 LONG LIVE VINYL BOOKS OF THE YEAR

Substance abuse, acrimonious break-ups, huge royalty cheques, disastrous gigs, dysfunctional relationships, all rock life is here

2O19 LONG LIVE VINYL RECORD SHOP OF THE YEAR

Our second annual Record Shop Of The Year competition saw over 10,000 votes cast, with a new store run by two brothers scooping first prize

TNT Records

It’s been a breathtaking 12 months for the sibling duo behind TNT Records in Barrow. Just a year after opening, they’re Long Live Vinyl’s Record Shop Of The Year, and they’re already talking about expanding…

Gear Of The Year 2019

2019 was the year that hi-fi’s big hitters and new boys raised the bar. Here’s the cream of the turntable crop, together with a host of desirable amps, phono stages and speakers…

Women On Wax

A new book focuses on over 100 of the best albums by women, as chosen by musicians and industry insiders

The Selecter

Long Live Vinyl’s essential Christmas gifts for vinyl lovers

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Lost Shops

If you grew up in a small Somerset village in the late

Simon says

While 2019 has been an unsettling year in many, many ways, Bella Union’s roster of artists has produced some memorable highlights

The Completist

It’s 40 years on from the first album Pete ever bought, and the impact of that vital vinyl purchase is still being felt today

Redinking The Archives

Record shop collective Dinked is dipping its toe into the reissue waters. Rupert Morrison explains

LINER NOTES

Are you planning any vinyl-related new year’s resolutions for 2020? Last year, I vowed to delve deeper into jazz. This time around, it’s skiffle

THE VINYLIST PABLO BALIBREA

Collector Pablo is waiting on a Nancy Sinatra reissue campaign

THE MURDER CAPITAL

After their explosive debut, the Dubliners are riding on the crest of a wave. Dan Biggane hangs five

CRATE DIGGING WITH… BOCA 45

The Bristolian DJ and beatmaker’s new album Forty Five is out now. Here, he walks us through the records that have made a difference to him

#32 Hawkwind IN SEARCH OF SPACE

Fans of Hawkwind, Nick Lowe, Ian Dury and Elvis Costello

RECORD PLANET MEGA RECORD & CD FAIR

More than 30,000 record collectors swarm around no

HAZEL WILDE LANTERNS ON THE LAKE

Repeated listening paid off for the Lanterns’ chief songwriter as she found herself immersed in the Arctic Monkeys’ sixth studio album. With comparisons to Kid A and Pet Sounds on the table, Gary Walker takes note

1O Questions For… AMYL & THE SNIFFERS

Snotty punks with attitude, mullets and talent to spare, Amyl & The Sniffers have had quite a year. Singer Amy Taylor tells Jonathan Wright about the roots of the band in sunny Australia, and recording their debut LP in not so sunny Sheffield

I just love the aesthetic and sound of vinyl. The digital age is a fucker and has neutered expression

Robert Plant is an ever-evolving creative who escaped the legacy of expectation to inspire generations. As he celebrates his Digging Deep podcast with a new limited edition 7" singles boxset of solo material, Dan Biggane looks back with the former Led Zeppelin frontman

Happy Songs

When Beck Hansen wanted to make upbeat music on his 12th studio album, he turned to pop megastar Pharrell Williams as a collaborator. Rob Haywood meets the Californian polymath and self-confessed “vinyl nerd” to talk Hyperspace, Miles Davis, Chris Martin and crappy old Toyotas

START WITH

The Pop Group’s searingly experimental debut album Y has been given the reissue treatment. Founder members Mark Stewart and Gareth Sager tell Jonathan Wright about its recording and the band’s early days

Madonna LIKE A PRAYER

Madonna’s fourth studio album is an immaculate collection of songs which saw the superstar looking inwards for divine inspiration. Taking in grief, loss, redemption and empowerment, with the celestial Like A Prayer she created her own new testament

Big City Bohe mians

From the coffee houses of Greenwich Village to the psychedelic explosion on Sunset Strip and back over to the proto-punks of late-60s Detroit, Elektra was the constantly evolving fable label of American bohemia. On the eve of its 70th birthday year, Gareth Murphy talks to founder Jac Holzman and finds out what kept Elektra at the cutting edge

Terry Pastor

Known for his work on Bowie’s Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust covers, Terry Pastor catches up with Teri Saccone to talk things through

DIGGING FOR VICTORY

Our intrepid record dealer Mark O’Shaughnessy scales a rickety ladder and enters a loft of Saharan heat to track down a stash of soundtrack LPs

Joe Meek

The troubled producer teamed up with the Blue Men to produce a space-age EP. Glen Bushell looks to the skies

The Beatles

23 seven-inch singles newly cut for vinyl from their original mastertapes at Abbey Road with reproduced international picture sleeves. What’s not to like? Steve Harnell opens the box

DREAM MACHINES

Pro-Ject’s flagship turntable is an audiophile marvel complete with a beast of a tonearm

Audio-Technica AT-LP140XP

It looks like an updated version of the AT-LP120X. That’s because it is. Paul Rigby takes note…

Chord Electronics HUEI

John Pickford assesses a compact phono stage for all cartridges

CLOSER VINYL’S GREATEST FINAL TRACKS

Nice and sleazy does it for the end cut of the LA rockers’ incendiary debut. Gary Tipp applies his hairspray