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Happy Ides of March, and welcome back to Record of the Week! This week, the Randomizer serves up an excellent soundtrack to one of my favourite films, The Royal Tenenbaums. This is the copy that'll be playing on my turntable, it's an RSD reissue from 2022. The first disc is sky blue and the second disc is olive green. Pretty cool.  In addition to being one of my fave films, The Royal Tenenbaums is probably my favourite Wes Anderson film. Everything clicks for me here. The story. The acting. The characters (I lose my shit every time when Chas says...

Welcome back to Record of the Week, or HELLO! if it's your first time. This week, the Randomizer queues up a perfect Sunday album, Elliott Smith's From a Basement on the Hill. This excellent 2010 pressing will be on my turntable today. What can be said about Elliott Smith in 2026 that hasn't already been said. Probably nothing. He is revered by pretty much everyone who has taken the time to dive into the music. Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, I've never heard (or read) anyone disparage ES. I'm sure there's someone out there who doesn't like him,...

Welcome back to Record of the Week. We're through the first couple months of the year already and shit ain't slowin' down. Hopefully you're focusing on the things that affect you directly as well as the things you can control. This first weekend of March, the Randomizer gives us PJ Harvey's 2011 masterpiece, Let England Shake. During the lockdown years, her entire catalog was reissued a few years ago, along with demos from each era, capping off with a 6LP box set of b-sides. I ended up grabbing everything as it came out. It was something that helped keep me...

Welcome back to Record of the Week. Two months of the year nearly done with and we just keep on rolling, no matter how awful everything is. Let's get to this record, it's Fever Ray's excellent self-titled debut album from 2009 (thank you, Randomizer). This is the copy that's on my turntable as I type this.  Though the album was released in March of 2009, I first got a taste of this around the end of 2008. A group of friends had decided to go to Mexico for a long New Year weekend. The plan was to meet at a...

Record of the Week is back! If you've read any (or even all) of these, thank you. I'm mostly out here doing it for myself as something creative to do, but it would be pretty cool if anyone else connects with it. So here we are. This week, the Randomizer serves up something a little more recent, it's Bat for Lashes' 2024 release, The Dream of Delphi. This translucent marble brown copy is the one on my turntable today. I pretty much ordered this straight away when it was announced. I've been a fan of hers since Fur & Gold,...