Vinyl Destination – Page 4 – Records, design and thoughts. Simon Minter is a freelance designer from Oxford, UK.

THE HUMAN LEAGUE: Open Your Heart / Non-Stop…

- April 5, 2014 - simonminter 2 Comments

My random number generator, before picking this record for me, suggested five or six 7" singles – problematic, as my 7"s are still not in an easy-to-handle order, meaning that I can't quickly track down any…

1970s / LP / Normal music

LOU REED: Transformer (LP, RCA NL 83806, 1972)

- March 26, 2014 - simonminter comment

I'm not the biggest fan of Lou Reed, although I was sad when he passed away. I did quite enjoy his notoriously confrontational and prickly persona in interviews – or maybe it wasn't a persona,…

Coloured vinyl / Freebies and inserts / LP / Post-rock-type Stuff

HELLVETE: Ode (LP, Deep Distance DD15, 2014)

- March 13, 2014 - simonminter comment

I've mentioned before how I have a few 'go-to' labels that I'll tend to buy all new releases from – ones that have proved themselves enough in terms of consistency and quality to pretty much…

VARIOUS: Crystallized: Celebrating 15 Years Of Rocket Recordings…

- March 8, 2014 - simonminter comment

I bought this two-album set very recently, after discovering the outstanding weirdo noise outfit Anthroprophh and taking myself on a Spotify-led journey through various releases and connected bands. After being somewhat blown away by the…

12" / Indie Rock Punk Noise

GUMBALL: Light Shines Through (12″, Paperhouse PAPER 012…

- March 3, 2014 - simonminter comment

I don't remember where I picked up this record, but I've a feeling it was one of those 'randomly acquired in a record shop' purchases – on one of those record-shopping trips where I'm not…

LP / Weirdo Noise Music

HEY COLOSSUS: Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo (LP,…

- February 24, 2014 - simonminter 1 Comment

I've got a lot of records by Hey Colossus, they tweak my musical nodes in several ways: they're noisy, strange, experimental, riff-heavy, repetitive and melodic. That's a win-win-win-win-win-win combination as far as I'm concerned. They…

7" / Indie-pop / Normal music

MIAOW: When It All Comes Down (7″, Factory…

- February 12, 2014 - simonminter 2 Comments

I must admit, I (recently) bought this record purely because I'm a huge fan of the American band Unrest – they covered 'When It All Comes Down' and held a strange obsession with Miaow singer…

12" / Indie Rock Punk Noise / Weirdo Noise Music

SHIT AND SHINE: Find Out What Happens When…

- February 9, 2014 - simonminter comment

Shit And Shine are an extraordinarily enigmatic, shapeshifting band. It's difficult to tell at any point in their history so far – they've been going for five, ten, twenty, fifty years? – who is in…

7" / Indie Rock Punk Noise / Indie-pop / Numbered

HELP SHE CAN’T SWIM: Suck Our Band EP…

- January 29, 2014 - simonminter 1 Comment

There are few things in life quite as satisfying as a 7" single pressed on really heavy vinyl. This EP is an example of this; a substantial and shiny frisbee of a platter that thunks…

12" / Normal music

DESERT HEAT: Cat Mask At Huggie Temple (12″,…

- January 23, 2014 | January 23, 2014 - simonminter comment

MIE is a UK record label with a pretty impressive back catalogue of releases. Their early releases tended toward exquisite packaging, with no end of hand-stitched, screenprinted and hand-assembled artwork being on offer. More recently…