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Vinyl love: Tallies “Tallies”

(Vinyl Love is a series of posts that quite simply lists, describes, and displays the pieces in my growing vinyl collection. You can bet that each record was given a spin during the drafting of each corresponding post.)

Artist: Tallies
Album Title: Tallies
Year released: 2019
Details: Canadian version, limited to 300 copies, ultra clear with light blue swirl

The skinny: In case you missed it, over the last two weekends, I have been re-counting down my top five albums from 2019, as well as featuring the vinyl packaging of each in this space. Two weeks ago, I posted my number five album, Orville Peck’s debut album “Pony”, and last week, I shared some snaps of “This is not a safe place” by Ride, which hit number four on my year end list. This week’s vinyl love is my number three album from 2019, the self-titled, debut album by new Canadian indie pop quartet, Tallies. As I mentioned back in December: “…”Tallies” is another good reason why we should still be excited about the indie music being made here in Canada. [They] have been described as shoegaze but I would place them more as dream pop, and yes, there is a difference. There’s plenty of jangle and twinkle and rays of sunshine, and man, is it easy on the ears!” The version of the album I purchased is one that’s only available in Canada, limited to 300 pieces, and the disc is ultra clear, save for a baby blue blotch in the middle. And yeah, the pastel motif definitely matches the sprightliness of their sound.

Standout track: “Trouble”

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Vinyl love: Ride “This is not a safe place”

(Vinyl Love is a series of posts that quite simply lists, describes, and displays the pieces in my growing vinyl collection. You can bet that each record was given a spin during the drafting of each corresponding post.)

Artist: Ride
Album Title: This is not a safe place
Year released: 2019
Details: 2 x 12″ LP, 45 rpm, embossed lettering on cover

The skinny: “This new [album] finds Mark Gardener, Andy Bell, Loz Colbert, and Steve Queralt revelling in being back in a fully realized band. Yeah, there is more confidence and energy and a sense that they want to explore and experiment more with their sound. After five years back as a whole, this sounds like it’s the first time that Ride knows exactly who they want to be and it’s bursting out from all speakers.” These are some of the words I wrote about “This is not a safe place” when I presented it as my fourth favourite album from 2019. I also wrote about how I went out to one of my locals on the day it was released to purchase this fine copy, pressed to two slabs at 45 rpm. It sounds lovely and even more so with repeat spins. And yeah, that title is quite prescient with the times we are now living in, isn’t it?

Standout track: “Clouds of Saint Marie”

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Vinyl love: Orville Peck “Pony”

(Vinyl Love is a series of posts that quite simply lists, describes, and displays the pieces in my growing vinyl collection. You can bet that each record was given a spin during the drafting of each corresponding post.)

Artist: Orville Peck
Album Title: Pony
Year released: 2019
Details: limited edition Urban Outfitters exclusive of 2000 copies on ‘orange red’ vinyl, poster

The skinny: We’re only just a few months removed from 2019 and yet, it feels so long ago. Thus, now feels like as good as time as any to revisit my favourite albums of last year and so that’s what I am going to do. Starting with my number five album, I am going to count them down again over the next bunch of weeks in this ‘Vinyl love’ space. I purchased this Urban Outfitters exclusive red-orange vinyl pressing of Orville Peck’s debut album, “Pony”, in December, but it had taken me the most of the year to gradually fall in love with it. Really, though, it was inevitable. As I said back in December: “A Lone Ranger mask with a long fringe, the ever present cowboy hats, and clothing that ranges from garish and sparkly to rough-hewn but slightly fey. He sings songs about cowboys with a voice Roy Orbison would be proud of, the whistles and plodding bass lines only slightly covering up that he is actually subverting the traditional idea of the cowboy.”

Standout track: “Dead of night”