Few people are onto great records as quickly as a great record store.
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, Phonica staff will pick out the five vinyl records you should grab this week.
LEVON VINCENT
‘These Games / Deeper : Hilo Edition’
(Novel Sounds)
Form an orderly queue, or just elbow your way to the counter with one of these long overdue re-presses of Levon Vincent’s first release on his own Novel Sounds label – two cuts of goosebump-raising, synapse-fizzling house that haven’t aged a day since 2008.
FIS
Speech Spirits EP
(Loopy)
Rumbling, vertigo-inducing maximalism from Tri Angle’s aural assaulter Fis (inaugurating new London-based label Loopy) paired with two ambitious remixes/reimaginings from Kassem Mosse and Oren Ambarchi. One for the old “home listening”, most certainly.
BOOTHROYD
Idle Hours EP
(Tri Angle)
There’s been praise across the board for Mancunian newcomer Boothroyd, who’s found a fitting home for his rugged, intense and awesomely cinematic debut EP in the weird wilds of Tri Angle.
Audio / Buy here
WILLIE BURNS
I Wanna Love You EP
(Hot Haus)
More heat from Unknown to the Unknown’s sister label with a deep’n’raw garage four-track from Willie Burns packed with shonky, handclap-fuelled anthems and a bonus slice of gauzy drift. Sweaty stuff.
APHEX TWIN
Syro LP
(Warp)
Have you heard? It’s the first new Aphex Twin album since 2001’s Drukqs. And if you buy it TODAY, he might, just might, be number one in the UK album chart. And wouldn’t that be a splendid thing.
