“Vinyl, she’s a classy broad and demands some long term commitment.”
“Vinyl…because you have to take care of it, protect it, and love it right—not like a flippant little mp3. Sometimes those girls are too easy. Flying around, duplicating themselves on different devices with the click of a button.
My gran used to play us her Sinatra and Dorris Day records when me and my brothers and sisters would go and stay with her in the summer holidays. I was brought up in a house full of cassettes, CDs, and yellow Sony Walkmans, so back then the idea of playing music from fragile discs the size of dinner plates seemed very old fashioned to me.
As I grew up I began to realize that my CDs didn’t last 5 minutes before I had cracked the jewel case, and barely a week before a huge scratch ruined your entire album. In fact, I didn’t really care for them at all, and yet every summer Gran’s LPs still played almost like the first day she’d bought them.
In an increasingly disposable culture, for some reason vinyl seems to be one thing that grows evermore precious to me. I don’t know whether it’s a retro nostalgia or because they physically demand some respect and to be taken more seriously than the alternatives, but there’s certainly something a little different sleeping between that cardboard sleeve.
My favourite record is probably a 7″ single of Bow Wow Wow’s “C30, C60, C90, Go.” I inherited it from my mum (who I’d had down as a strictly Abba and the Stylistics fan until that point.) It has been well loved, and always gets a spin at any house party.”
—Laura Bettinson
Ultraista is a band formed by Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker, and artist Laura Bettinson. Conceived from a love of afrobeat, electronica, art, and inspired by tequila.
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ON TOUR:
01/23 Philadelphia, PA at The Underground Arts *
01/25 Chicago, IL at Lincoln Hall *
01/26 Toronto, ON at Lee’s Palace #
01/28 Brooklyn, NY at Music Hall of Williamsburg *
01/31 Los Angeles, CA at Masonic Lodge – Hollywood Forever ^
* w/ Prefuse 73
# w/ Digits
^ DJ Chris Holmes
