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Record Store Day takes place on April 20th in over 200 independent shops across the UK. Here are our top picks of what to buy.
David Bowie – ‘The Stars (Are Out Tonight)’. Released on white vinyl, the single is limited to 1,000 copies.
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Foals – ‘My Number’/ ‘Bluebird’. Limited to 2,000 copies featuring the rare b-side.
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Tame Impala – ‘Desire Be Desire Go’/ ‘Skeleton Tiger’/ ‘Half Full Glass Of Wine’/ ‘Forty One Mosquitoes Flying In Formation’/ ‘Slide Through My Fingers’/ ‘Wander’. 1,500 copies of the 12″, red vinyl. The two bonus tracks ‘Wander’ and ‘Forty One Mosquitoes Flying In Formation’ will be available for the first time on vinyl.
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Paul McCartney & Wings – ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’. 6,500 copies of the vinyl 12″. It’s a rare live version from 1976.
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Biffy Clyro – ‘Modern Magic Formula’ (Live At Freizeitzentrum)/ ‘City Of Dreadful Night’. Marble vinyl 7″, limited to 2000 copies. ‘City Of Dreadful Night’ is previously unreleased.
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Frank Turner – ‘Recovery’/ ‘We Shall Not Overcome’. Limited edition burgundy 7″, 1000 copies. The first single from Turner’s fifth album.
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Jake Bugg – ‘Kentucky’ / ‘Swept Away’. 1,000 copies of the limited edition 7″ featuring the previously unreleased ‘Swept Away’.
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The Horrors/ Toy – Toy ‘Motoring’ (Tom Furse Extrapolation)/ The Horrors – ‘Moving Further Away’ (Toy Remix). Limited white label, split 12″. 500 copies, as the two bands remix each others songs.
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Bat For Lashes – ‘Laura’/ ‘Marilyn’ (Vogue Love Song Sessions). Limited 7″, 500 copies. Natasha Khan described the version of ‘Marilyn’ as: “quite shoegazey, with distorted tremolo beats and big organs.”
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Daniel Johnson – ‘Space Ducks Soundtrack’. Previously only available as a digital only release, this soundtrack which accompanies a graphic novel comic finally gets a vinyl release.
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CHVRCHES- ‘Recover’ EP. The new EP from the Scottish trio is available as a limited edition 12″.
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Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band – ‘Frank Freeman’s Dance Club’. Limited edition purple vinyl recording of Beefheart’s 1968 gig at Frank Freeman’s Dance Club in Kidderminster. It was recored by John Peel on a tape recorder.
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Disclosure featuring Alunageorge – ‘White Noise’ (Hudson Mohawke Remix). A limited edition 12″ remix of the chart conquering track from Hudson Mohawke.
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Elliott Smith – ‘either/ or’ (Alternate Versions). Four unreleased tracks from the ‘either/ or’ sessions released on limited edition 12″.
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Grizzly Bear – ‘Horn Of Plenty’. A limited edition re-issue of Grizzly Bear’s debut album. Also featured is an mp3 download that includes remixes from DNTEL, Final Fantasy and The Bomarr Monk.
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James Blake – ‘Retrograde’. Limited edition 12″ version of the first single from Blake’s second album ‘Overgrown’.
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MGMT – ‘Alien Days’. The duo are set to release this new track on cassette tape (a digital download code is included) which is believed to be taken from their forthcoming, self titled third album.
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The Notorious B.I.G – ‘Ready To Die’. The 1995 album is released in a limited edition 2-LP version featuring a bonus track ‘Who Shot ya?’.
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Pulp – ‘After You’ (Soulwax Remix). Limited edition 12″ remix of their 2012 track. Originally demoed in 2000, it was resurrected by the reformed group and re-recorded with James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem.
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The Shangri- Las – ‘Remember (Walking In The Sand)’/ ‘Out In The Streets’/ ‘I Can Never Go Home Anymore’/ ‘Past, Present And Future’. Limited edition 7″ EP.
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Sharon Van Etten – ‘We Are Fine’/ ‘Hotel 2 T’. The third single from ‘Tramp’ is a duet with Zach Condon from Beirut and comes as a limited edition 7″ and is backed with the rare track ‘Hotel 2 T’.
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The Cure – ‘Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me’. Limited edition (and individually numbered) red vinyl reissue of their 1987 album.
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The Roots – ‘Things Fall Apart’. Their 1999 album gets reissued in a double LP, audiophile-quality 180-gram vinyl version. Included is a gatefold sleeve with liner notes.
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The xx/ Jamie xx – ‘Edits’. Limited edition 12″ edits of ‘Sunset’ and ‘Coexist’ bonus track ‘Reconsider’. It comes in a die cut sleeve with a wrap around inner sleeve.
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Ultraista – It’s still yet to be officially confirmed but there have been not so subtle hints that the Nigel Godrich led band will release a limited edition cover of The Pointer Sisters ‘I’m So Excited’.
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GZA – ‘Liquid Swords’ (The Chess box vinyl edition). Limited edition quadruple vinyl box set reissue of the album that includes a full size chess set. Also included alongside the original album is a collection of instrumentals, liner notes (featuring contributions from GZA) and original artwork sleeves.