Vinyl Destination – Page 12 – Records, design and thoughts. Simon Minter is a freelance designer from Oxford, UK.

Indie-pop / LP

EGGS: Bruiser (LP, TeenBeat TEENBEAT 76, 1994)

- January 17, 2010 - simonminter 2 Comments

Love the photograph on this cover. Who is that, Julie Christie or somebody? It looks like somebody from a 1960s/New Wave-type movie, probably sheltering in the rain after skipping down a Parisian street with her…

FAINE JADE: It Ain’t True (LP, Distortions DB-1007,…

- January 12, 2010 - simonminter 1 Comment

This album was picked up on eBay about three years ago. I regularly poke about amongst the eBay records on offer to see if I can uncover one or two psychedelic gems at bargain prices.…

12" / Post-rock-type Stuff / Weirdo Noise Music

BATTLES: Atlas (12″, Warp WAP219, 2007)

- January 9, 2010 - simonminter comment

I really liked the first couple of Battles EPs, as they were totally weird, chilly alien post-rock music of a kind I had never heard before. As the band signed to Warp and started introducing…

7" / Normal music

WORLD OF TWIST: Sons Of The Stage (7″,…

- January 6, 2010 - simonminter comment

The band name 'World Of Twist' totally takes me back to heady teenage indie-disco days; drinking to excess back when that just meant having more than a couple of pints, and getting down to what…

CHEVAL SOMBRE: I Sleep (7″, Trensmat TR012, 2008)

- January 2, 2010 - simonminter 4 Comments

Another Trensmat release; I've previously talked about another of the records from this label - but this one isn't a lathe-cut record. It's a regular 7" single pressed onto rather fetching translucent dull green vinyl.…

1970s / 7" / Post-punk

MAGAZINE: Touch And Go (7″, Virgin VS 207,…

- January 1, 2010 - simonminter comment

I picked this up a couple of years ago from a second-hand record shop. I was drawn to it less because of it being Magazine and more because of the title 'Touch And Go' being,…

SPACE ROCKET: Hot Gadulka Suicide (7″, Boing Being…

- December 31, 2009 - simonminter comment

I have no real recollection of how this record found its way onto my shelves. I know I didn't buy it, so I presume that it was sent to me either as a gift* or…

12" / Indie-pop

14 ICED BEARS: Hold On (12″, Borderline BORD…

- December 28, 2009 - simonminter 1 Comment

This 12" is from the latter days of 14 Iced Bears, who first (I think) released a couple of 7" singles on Sarah in the late eighties. Despite sounding as shambling and perky as many…

OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD: Yellow Nirvana…

- December 20, 2009 - simonminter 1 Comment

When the randomly-generated number came up and pointed me in the direction of this record, I have to admit that at first I had no idea what it was and could not recollect even the…

7" / Indie-pop / Normal music

THE SMITHS: How Soon Is Now? (7″, WEA…

- December 16, 2009 - simonminter comment

I really like this song, but I am in no way a Smiths aficionado. I only own a couple of their records, and I think I'm slightly younger than those music fans that had a…