This year, we’ve brought in several new weekly features to FACT’s schedule.
Joining My Favourite Record and Forgotten Classics is The Week’s Best Vinyl Releases, a Saturday column by our friends at Soho record shop Phonica. It sounds obvious, but few people are onto great records as quickly as a great record store, and after years spent discovering gems in Phonica’s end of year lists, it made sense to give them a regular space on FACT. Every Saturday morning, they’ll run down the five vinyl records that you should grab this week.
BELL TOWERS
Territory EP
(Public Possession)
Public Possession’s fourth effort arrives from Melbourne-born Bell Towers, and it’s a doozy, pulling from Italo disco and vintage Chi-town house. Ring it from the rafters: Bell Towers is definitely one to keep an eye trained on.
LEGOWELT
Crystal Cult 2080
(Creme Organization)
Two appearances in two weeks for the Hague mage, sounding warmer and woozier than ever on his latest full-length. You’ll know by now whether the hyper-prolific Wolfers is your bag – and if quirk-heavy analogue techno doesn’t do it for you, you need a new bag.
CRYSTAL MAZE
Black Orchid EP
(Echovolt)
Greek imprint Echovolt, previously home to Steve Summers and Jorge Velez, continues to go from strength to strength with this two-track set of rickety hypnojams. Mumsey would approve.
FRAK
Saturate You
(Midlight Records)
Swedish acid veterans FRAK have been squelching for decades, and they’re not letting up any time soon. Saturate You is top-notch late FRAK – sinewy, frill-free and insidiously funky to boot.
GOLDEN TEACHER
Party People
(Optimo Music)
Pneumatic electro? Block party jolliness? Druggy funky house? It’s all here on the third EP from Golden Teacher, who deserve a glowing OFSTED report for this sort of dancefloor-friendly oddness.
