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Welcome…

Ever feel as if there aren’t enough hours in the day

LONG LIVE VINYL

SIMON RAYMONDE

LIKE IT’S 1999…

Prince’s genius may have been unstoppable – but it took until his fifthalbum for the world to catch up. As 1999 becomes the first Prince album to get the full super-deluxe treatment witha 1OLP set, John Earls speaks to members of The Revolution, a key singer, Prince’s estate manager and the guitarist who walked away, to establish how Prince became a global superstar in 7O minutes

The xx

At the end of a decade characterised by the riotous and hedonistic energy of youth, The xx’s fragile self-titled debut instead explored hushed empty space and vulnerability. Seeping into the collective consciousness of a city coming down from the garagerock revival and financial ruin, Sam Willis explains how it helped to define the following 10 years in pop

The Selecter

Long Live Vinyl’s essential picks for the monthahead

ISOBEL CAMPBELL

Work In Progress

Lost Shops

#5 CODA MUSIC

Simon says

In a not-so-distant dystopian future, Bella Union founder Simon reveals a world where music has been driven underground and small-batch vinyl is pressed in a bunker on the undercliff pathin Saltdean

Is vinyl a sound investment?

While the majority of vinyl buyers are happy to splash the cash simply to add to our collections, there are some who are in it for the money

The Completist

In a case of like mother, like son, Pete’s 79-year-old mum has begun to scour her local charity shops in search of rare vinyl

Station To Station

Classic LPs take a whistle stop tour of the UK’s railway stations as part of National Album Day

TOP OF THE SHOPS

Long Live Vinyl is again searching for the nation’s

4 OF A KIND… Elemental Gases

ARCADE FIRE

Coming Soon…

OUR PICK OF THE NEW VINYL RELEASES

IAN PEEL’S LINER NOTES

How do you store your vinyl? I’ve stored my own collection in various ways over the years. Which has taught me a thing or two about the subject…

THE VINYLIST

All roads lead almost exclusively to Manchester for this collector

Now Spinning

The 12 tracks we’ve been playing to deaththis monthwhile drinking Electric Bear’s deliciously tart blackberry-flavoured Gose And It Gose And It Gose

There’s No Other Way

Gene Clark’s lost classic gets Abbey Road treatment

SIR WAS

Swedish sideman takes his rightful place in the spotlight withconfident second LP

#3O John Cooper Clarke

Famed Factory Records artist in chief Peter Saville

LED ZEPPELIN

Led Zeppelin arrive in Honolulu on a Pan American 707

MARK LANEGAN

Screaming Trees frontman, Queens Of The Stone Age veteran and general legend Mark Lanegan shares his love of an American Primitive cult classic. Felix Rowe takes note

1OQuestions For… JASON ISBELL

Felix Rowe catches up withthe four-time Grammy winner as he re-releases a pair of classic albums made withthe 400 Unit

Land Of The Giants

“It’s all Brexit, deathand bewilderment withflashes of the really uplifting and positive.” So says Guy Garvey of Elbow’s eighthalbum Giants Of All Sizes – in which the band shook everything up, struggled withthe futility of songwriting, recorded in the wrong city and emerged bruised, battered and brilliant. John Earls hears why Elbow have gone “dark as fuck”

BIG THIEF

Their second album of 2019 and perhaps their most potent statement yet, Two Hands sees New York’s Big Thief deliver an urgent global message. Gary Walker goes into the mountains to meet a band who’ve found a home on the road

Talkin New York

A key figure in the Big Apple’s musical re-awakening around the turn of the century, former Moldy Peach Adam Green has since branched out into a whole range of creative projects. Daniel Dylan Wray catches up withthe genre-agnostic innovator

Geoff Barrow

A creative purist intent on shunning commercial influence, Geoff Barrow is best known for being a member of Portishead, but his output is remarkably varied. He tells Christopher Barrett about the 10 albums he has worked on that have had the biggest impact on his career

The Vinyl Whistle

Premier League ref Jon Moss felt that opening a record shop would be less stressful than officiating for 90 minutes on the weekend. He tells John Earls about his new store and why VAR might actually stand for Vinyl Addicted Referee

Chris Bell

The former Big Star guitarist died young withonly one 45 release to his name. Glen Bushell looks back

The Beatles Solo Albums

Theirs was a difficult act to follow, but how did John, Paul, George and Ringo do withthe challenge of going it alone? Let Steve Harnell be the judge of that

TREASURE ISLAND

The world’s most famous palm tree turned 60 this year. From Bob Marley to Amy Winehouse via Nick Drake, Roxy Music, Cat Stevens, Grace Jones, U2, PJ Harvey, Tricky and many others, Island was the ultimate paradise for real-deal artists. Talking to the men who made it happen, GarethMurphy reveals the true story behind the music business legend

Trading Up

Landing your wishlist vinyl can be hugely expensive, but Gordon Coates wasn’t going to let that stop him. Find out how he traded his way to the Holy Grail…

DIGGING FOR VICTORY

Reggae is one of vinyl’s most collectable genres, but getting your mitts on the good stuff is far from straightforward, as Mark O’Shaughnessy notes

Strangelove Music

From primitive Venezuelan art-pop to Swedish jazz and Portuguese avant-garde electronics, Chris Parkin discovers New Zealand’s most esoteric reissue label

Factory Records

The archetypal indie label’s first year is preserved in boxset perpetuity via its first 10 numbered records and objects. Gary Tipp gives a FAC

Prince

THE VERSACE EXPERIENCE (PRELUDE 2 GOLD)/ CHAOS AND

Marvin Gaye

WHAT’S GOING ON LIVE

The Specials

SPECIALS

The Kinks

ARTHUR

Freddie Mercury

NEVER BORING

Scott Walker

SCOTT 4

The Chemical Brothers

SURRENDER

Beastie Boys

PAUL’S BOUTIQUE

Dusty Springfield

DUSTY IN MEMPHIS

Super Furry Animals

GUERRILLA

Gang Of Four

ENTERTAINMENT!

The Boo Radleys

WAKE UP!

John Coltrane

BLUE WORLD

Bert Jansch

AVOCET

Tanita Tikaram

TO DRINK THE RAINBOW 1998-2019

Various Artists

SOUL SHACK TIME & PLACE

Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry

BATTLE OF ARMAGIDEON

Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit

JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT/ HERE WE REST

BethGibbons & Rustin Man

OUT OF SEASON

Various Artists

2 TONE TREASURES

Elbow

Elbow return witha hard-hitting masterpiece that in Guy Garvey’s own words is “bleak, but witha huge heart”. John Earls finds solace in the band’s most definitive statement yet

Big Thief

TWO HANDS

Foals

EVERYTHING NOT SAVED WILL BE LOST (PART 2)

Richard Dawson

2020

Mark Lanegan Band

SOMEBODY’S KNOCKING

Neil Young/Crazy Horse

COLORADO

Robbie Robertson

SINEMATIC

Nils Frahm

ALL ENCORES

Underworld

DRIFT SERIES 1 – SAMPLER

Simple Minds

LIVE IN THE CITY OF ANGELS

John Coltrane

IMPULSE

Cigarettes After Sex

CRY

808 State

TRANSMISSION SUITE

WHAT’S ON IN THE SHOP

Iggy Pop

65 Days Of Static

REPLICR, 2019

Moon Duo

STARS ARE THE LIGHT

Penguin Café

HANDFULS OF NIGHT

Swim Deep

EMERALD CLASSICS

Angel Olsen

ALL MIRRORS

MY NEW ALBUM

ANGEL OLSEN

Kim Gordon

NO HOME RECORD

Portico Quartet

MEMORY STREAMS

Patrick Watson

WAVE

Battles

JUICE B CRYPTS

Allah-Las

LAHS

Tegan & Sara

HEY, I’M JUST LIKE YOU

One Two Another

TIM BURGESS

Come And Get These Memories

EDDIE AND BRIAN HOLLAND

It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track

IAN PENMAN

Another Day In The Life

RINGO STARR

DREAM MACHINES Origin Live

The Voyager deck is the culmination of over 25 years’ experience in turntable design

NAD C588

Paul Rigby is wildly surprised by the sound quality of this carefully constructed turntable

Eclipse TD508 MK3

These unique egg-shaped speakers provide an explicit and coherent sound for John Pickford

Chord Company C-SERIES AND CLEARWAY CABLES

The Chord Company’s cables can make a real difference to your setup, as John Pickford finds

CLOSER

Hunky Dory’s oblique closing cut is wide open to interpretation. Gary Tipp might just slip away…