Vinyl Destination – Page 5 – Records, design and thoughts. Simon Minter is a freelance designer from Oxford, UK.

7" / Freebies and inserts / Indie Rock Punk Noise

OLIMPIA SPLENDID: Nuttu Nurin (7″, Fonal FR-93, 2013)

- January 20, 2014 - simonminter comment

I bought this record recently, after reading an excitable and positive review in The Wire magazine. I thought I'd go direct to the source, and so ordered it through Finnish record label Fonal's website – I…

KAREN NOVOTNY X / SAMANTHA GLASS: Join Hands…

- January 13, 2014 - simonminter comment

There's rather an air of mystery surrounding many aspects of this split 7" single, pressed on white vinyl. Karen Novotny X is not an individual but a band; they take the A side and spin…

LP / Post-rock-type Stuff

JEALOUSY MOUNTAIN DUO: No_01 (LP, Blunoise LC 05575,…

- January 12, 2014 - simonminter comment

Here's a nice example of the kindness of strangers. I wrote a very brief piece on my record label's website about Nicoffeine and their "dystopic, potentially harmful guitar noise" after hearing one of their tracks…

7" / Flexi / Freebies and inserts / Post-punk

THE LEGEND: 73 in 83 (7″, Creation CRE…

- January 6, 2014 | January 7, 2014 - simonminter 1 Comment

This record is notable for a number of reasons including: It's the first 7" release on Creation Records, who of course went on to dominate and reshape the independent music scenes (feel free to argue…

Coloured vinyl / Easy Listening / LP

VARIOUS: The In-Kraut Vol. 2 (2LP, Marina MA…

- January 5, 2014 - simonminter comment

After many months of living with a jumbled record collection, I finally organised everything into alphabetical order over the past couple of days. (LPs, 12"s and 10"s, at least – the 7"s can wait until…

LP / Post-rock-type Stuff

EX-EASTER ISLAND HEAD: Mallet Guitars Three (LP, Low…

- January 4, 2014 - simonminter comment

This is the first Ex-Easter Island Head record I've owned, after listening to their earlier work Mallet Guitars One and Mallet Guitars Two / Music For Moai Hava on Spotify several hundred times. It seemed…

7" / Freebies and inserts / Indie Rock Punk Noise

THE SEE SEE: Featherman (7″, The Great Pop…

- January 3, 2014 - simonminter comment

It's been a while since I posted here – I've been sans turntable for a few months now (I know, it was cruel and inhuman) but I'm celebrating seeing in 2014 with a new one,…

7" / Coloured vinyl / Indie Rock Punk Noise

SLUDGE NATION: Monkey On My Back (7″, Rhythm…

- June 21, 2012 - simonminter comment

Strange one this, as it represents a certain watershed moment in my music writing/reviewing life, rather than being a record that I have any deep affection for (or, indeed, any recollection of what it actually…

7" / Freebies and inserts / Post-rock-type Stuff

MAHOGANY: In The Presence Of The Crepuscular (7″,…

- June 1, 2012 - simonminter comment

A record from what was in some ways an early wave of the instrumental, semi-electronic post-rock sound that came to inform vast swathes of independent music, this Mahogany single is a real 'prepared with love'…

7" / Freebies and inserts / Indie-pop / Wraparound sleeve

EVEN AS WE SPEAK: One Step Forward EP…

- May 19, 2012 - simonminter comment

Australian band Even As We Speak were an ambitious lot, in the context of the often-lazy, often-detail-rather-than-big-picture world of indie-pop. This EP, for example, plays at 33 1/3 rpm rather than the usual (for Sarah…