Gift Guide - Vinyl Classics

"Dirt, the critically acclaimed and 5x Platinum certified, studio album from Alice in Chains is celebrating its 30th anniversary. The album feature...

I'd usually take this time to explain a little bit about Twin Peaks but that can’t be necessary at this point. David Lynch and Mark Frost created o...

Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works 85-92 was released in 1992 by R&S offshoot Apollo Records after Richard D. James had just two singles to hi...

This is one of the most respected dub albums of all time, featuring Augustus Pablo's finest instrumentals run through the King Tubby version machin...

Bjork's fantastically diverse debut solo album from 1993. Those of us who were around back then probably remember seeing the "Human Behaviour" vide...

If you're like me, you already own and cherish every Bjork LP up to the release of Greatest Hits (and none of the ones that came after. But if not,...

Best album of the 90s? Possibly maybe! For her second album, Bjork and her cast of collaborators escaped to the Bahamas to record at Compass Point ...

Sophomore studio album from Black Marble. It's Immaterial finds Black Marble in a transitional phase. Originally composed of Chris Stewart and Ty K...

“We do actually believe that there are powers in music that are almost supernatural. I think you actually manipulate people with music.” Boards Of ...

Can't believe we've never had this one up in the Lab before. K Lim said it best on his review of the Black Nostaljack 12" - "If any of you think th...

Trout Mask Replica manages to be both one of the weirdest and most important records ever. Perpetual champion of the underground John Peel said "If...

Official debut from Syracuse University student Claire Cottrill aka Clairo. The term “bedroom pop” is getting thrown around more and more, but unli...

"Associated with soft, intimate vocals, day-dreamy atmosphere, and rumination, Clairo is lo-fi singer/songwriter Claire Cottrill. Alternating keybo...

Dreampop essential! By the time Cocteau Twins released Heaven Or Las Vegas, they had been perfecting their singular sound for nearly 10 years, reco...

Daft Punk's 1997 debut album took the raw foundation of Chicago house to prog rock levels of high concept and grandiosity... looking over the odd ...

Deluxe 20th anniversary pressing of Death Cab's critically-acclaimed 4th studio album. Transatlanticism was originally released back in 2003 and fo...

Depeche Mode's epic live album reissued! Originally released in 1989, 101 chronicles the final show of UK synth pop gods' 1988 Music For The Masse...

Digable Planets' classic second album! This deluxe limited edition pressing of Blowout Comb comes pressed on thick double vinyl with detailed liner...

25th anniversary edition! Numero Group celebrate a quarter century of Duster's slow burning classic with this special edition pressed on 180 gram h...

Fugazi's debut full length LP. Fugazi released their eponymous debut EP in 1988 in the midst of touring the US and Europe. They followed that relea...

Sophomore studio album from Montreal's Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven was originally recorded in Febru...

Third studio album from San Francisco's Jawbreaker. 24 Hour Revenge Therapy was originally recorded in 1993 with producer Steve Albini engineering ...

My favorite jazz record of all time. Anytime a record can both drive you mad and ease your soul at different times is classic in my eyes. This Impu...

My favorite jazz record of all time. Anytime a record can both drive you mad and ease your soul at different times is classic in my eyes. This Impu...

"Released in 1961, My Favorite Things made John Coltrane a star with box-office pull previously reserved for the likes of Dave Brubeck and Miles Da...

This is an astonishing album. There is so much going on beneath the surface that it will draw you in before you're even aware of it. From everythin...

"My grandpa would always ask me 'Como me quieres?' ('how much do you love me'?), and he'd only ever accept one response. 'Con todo el mundo' (With ...

black double vinyl pressing gatefold sleeve music label: Universal 2009

La Roux's eponymous debut album finally available again on vinyl, for the first time since it was released in 2009! Original Lab review: It certain...

There's something about classic albums that take you back to a certain time and place. I think that it was my older brother that initially introduc...

There's a lot of hubbub in the rap cognoscenti around this new release from Daniel Dumile, man of a thousand (well, at least 5) names. He's hardly ...

Operation Doomsday faithfully reissued on standard black double vinyl with the OG cover, just like it was back in 1999 on the original Fondle 'Em r...

Special mono reissue of Miles' most iconic record. Kind Of Blue is the most popular straight-jazz album of all time, the one that even those people...

What can you say about Minor Threat that hasn't already been said? The DC punk band, fronted by Ian MacKaye, launched the straight edge hardcore mo...

"Double vinyl LP pressing. Play is the fifth studio album by electronic musician Moby, originally released in 1999. Moby's goal for Play was to ret...

"Mogwai’s groundbreaking debut album Young Team, originally released in October 1997 is to be reissued in February 2023, remastered and refreshed o...

Mozmentous. I kinda dread getting these foundational records of my teenage years in. I feel the need to write a confessional blurb, then Woodman wi...

Official import pressing of MBV's Loveless! This reissue was overseen by Kevin Shields and is fully analog cut, resulting in the truest representat...

This is the album that New Order fans pretend not to like. As in: "I prefer their early, formative stuff like Movement or Power Corruption Lies." W...

I Wanna F You Like An Animal. Nine Inch Nails's sophomore effort now on 180 gram double vinyl with fully remastered sound for the Definitive Editi...