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17.01.2022 At the time of its release, Wanderer was Chan Marshall’s first album in almost six years. That in and of itself isn’t particularly newsworthy, because the wait between @catpowerofficial albums is usually not a brief one. More notably, it was her first record not to be released on Matador, which had been her musical home since the midnineties. The split with Matador was an acrimonious one; reps from the label had reportedly come to visit her at the studio whilst she was recor...ding Wanderer to wave Adele albums in her face and tell her that was what the people wanted, not the stripped back, bare-bones record she had set out to make. Thankfully Marshall took her own path. She hired a manager, switched labels, and the rest is history. The result is the sound of a woman freed. Stripped back arrangements leave all the room in the world for Marshall’s soulful, gently raspy voice, and she slides between genres in a way that’s completely natural, gently nodding towards blues, soul, and even country on an album that submits itself as an essential entry to her canon. - words by Angus
11.01.2022 This is where it all began for Mike D, AdRock, and MCA. Well, technically it all began in 1982 with a ten minute hardcore punk EP called ‘Golly Wog Stew’, but we’re going to take liberties with a bit of revisionist history here. Licensed to Ill, the debut studio album from the Beastie Boys hasn’t necessarily stood the test of time with the fortitude that one might hope for with an album considered a classic. The group’s juvenile sense of humour and goofy antics mean that whi...lst it does put forth some questionable content, there’s still plenty to admire. Rick Rubin was of course at the helm here, and was famously working on ‘Reign in Blood’ at the time too, so naturally it was Slayer’s Kerry King that showed up to rip a guitar solo over the jockish ‘No Sleep ‘Til Brooklyn’. That it stands as the only truly successful punk / rap crossover album ever makes it an essential addition to any music lover's vinyl collection.
08.01.2022 What you really want is an amp with the big kahunas.
03.01.2022 Yeah, I’d struggle in a tiny home.
02.01.2022 Here at Instant Classic, as you’d rightly expect, we have vinyl fanatics of all persuasions. We’ve got a couple of pop fiends, a few indieheads, one diehard metalhound, one trap fanatic, two whose collections are composed almost exclusively of film scores and classical, and those of us who dabble in almost every pond, as long as that pond doesn’t contain any American heartland country. Anyway, we’ve compiled a list of Melbourne-based record stores that we think you would enjo...y. Come see. Do you have a favourite haunt?
