Today I ask the question: Are Rough Trade Exclusives worth it? To answer, I unbox my 2017 pressing of Capacity by Big Thief and the 2022 Rough Trade Exclusive of the same album on Maroon Vinyl. Capacity was the band’s second LP and final on Saddle Creek Records before moving […]
In November 2025, Radiohead surprised everyone with a return tour, their first in nearly a decade after quietly slipping away in August of 2018. What was behind this departure was a blend of grief, controversy, and the feeling that they had pushed themselves too far. Thom Yorke’s previous partner and […]
Andy from FensePost talks about indie pop band The Lucksmiths out of Australia and covers the 7″ single of their song Untidy Towns in this vinyl unboxing video and album review. The single came as a split release from Drive-In Records and Matinee Recordings. The release includes three tracks: A […]
Andy from the FensePost Indie Music & Vinyl Blog takes a look at the lone 7″ Single by Acid titled “Never, Ever / Thoughts of You.” The single, released in 1993, was on Bomp Records and Tangible Records. Acid is actually a little known alias of The Brian Jonestown Massacre […]
The story of “Love Will Tear Us Apart” begins in the late 1970s. Joy Division was transforming Manchester into the epicenter of a new post-punk sound. Frontman Ian Curtis was beginning to unravel. His marriage to Deborah Woodruff was unraveling and he had fallen into a complicated relationship with Belgian […]
Andy from the FensePost Indie Music & Vinyl Blog takes a look at the debut album by Mirah, “You Think It’s Like This, But It’s Really Like This.” In this vinyl unboxing video, Andy discusses the variations released by K Records (an original pressing in 2000 and a repress in […]
Andy from the FensePost Indie Music and Vinyl Blog does an unboxing and of the 5th Anniversary Pink Vinyl pressing of Clash the Truth by Beach Fossils, which includes a demo LP containing original demos of half the songs from the album. Also in his collection is the original pressing […]
Not enough people talk about Joy Division’s origin story. Sure, they released one of the most important albums of the 20th Century. But before that was a famed Sex Pistols show, a messy beginning, punk rock ethos, and a cascade of chance events that brought it all together. This is […]
Archers of Loaf is back! The band had its heyday between 1991 and 1998 before calling it quits. Now we have the band’s first new record nearly 25 years later! It’s called Reason in Decline, and it came out on October 21, 2022 on Merge Records. In this vinyl unboxing […]
One man gathers what another man spills. Welcome (or welcome back) to Vinyl Monday! This is my series where I give the who/what/when/where/why and how I feel about classic albums in my collection. This week is a little different: here’s an examination of the Grateful Dead in 1969, with my […]
