Suggestions for the vinyl fanatic fathers
This Father's Day why not gift your dad something from our incredible range of vinyl. Covering styles from hip-hop and soul to singer-songwriters and rock there's sure to be an album to suit. To get you started we've listed a few options below but you can find more in our Father's Day vinyl collection here.
Etazhi (Silver Vinyl) by Molchat Doma
This album has been flying off our racks at the Carlton shop!! The second LP by Belarussian trio Molchat Doma, Etazhi, meaning 'Floors', was first released in 2018 on Berlin-based Detriti Records. It became a viral hit, garnering over one million views on YouTube and becoming a legitimate phenomenon on Bandcamp. The band may fly under the radar in their native Belarus, but they’ve reached huge audiences across Europe and beyond. Six separate vinyl pressings of the album have sold out in quick succession, and Sacred Bones Records is now thrilled to bring the record back permanently.
Molchat Doma (translated as 'Houses Are Silent'), founded in 2017 in Minsk, Belarus, stands at the intersection of post-punk, new-wave and synth-pop. Dark yet danceable, and with a heavy dose of goth ethos, their music is reminiscent of the masters that predate them, but make no mistake: Molchat Doma creates a sound and meaning that is immediately recognizable as all their own.
A La Sala (Vinyl) by Khruangbin
With tickets selling fast for their Australian tour in 2025 Khruangbin’s latest album A La Sala (‘To the Room’ in Spanish), is an exercise in returning, in order to go further, and doing so on your own terms. Engineered with minimal overdubs, it’s a gorgeously airy record and a window into the bounties powering Khruangbin’s vision, a reimagining and refuelling for the long haul. Khruangbin is unique, growing, ambitious, and driven.
Mahal (Vinyl) by Glass Beams
The genesis for the Naarm/Melbourne-based trio was through the rekindling of childhood memories relating to his father, who emigrated to Melbourne from India in the late 1970's. Silva recalled watching a DVD on repeat with his father; ‘Concert for George’, a star-studded tribute to late Beatles member George Harrison performed at London's Royal Albert Hall in 2002, featuring legendary Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar with daughter Anoushka, alongside Western icons Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney and ELO’s Jeff Lynne. This intersection of musical styles was reflected in the record collection of Silva's father, where the sounds of iconic Bollywood vocalists Asha Bhosle and the Mangeshkar lineage sat alongside music from blues legends like B.B. King and Muddy Waters. In particular, Silva was drawn to the fusion of Western musical styles and traditional Indian music; a concept pioneered by Indian artists like R.D. Burman, Ananda Shankar, and fraternal duo Kalyanji-Anandji.
This cross-pollination of East and West, of old and new, is a sentiment that the band have sought to capture in their self-produced works. Across their output, Glass Beams presents a timeless fusion of cultures and sounds beamed through a prism of live instrumentation and DIY electronica, all wrapped up inside a mesmerizing and mystical visual world of their own making.
The Anthology (2024 Reissue Vinyl) by A Tribe Called Quest
For those who haven't discovered that A Tribe Called Quest made several of the best LPs in hip-hop history, The Anthology is a perfect way to encapsulate the trio's decade-long career into one manageable portion. All of their best and biggest songs are here, from the early neglected joint 'Luck of Lucien' to classic jazz-rap from The Low End Theory like 'Jazz (We've Got)', and their 45-rpm peak with 'Award Tour', all the way to their last big hit, 'Find a Way,' from 1998's The Love Movement.
Yes, anyone who enjoys hip-hop needs to own at least Midnight Marauders and The Low End Theory (which has also just had a very nice reissue!), but The Anthology succeeds in delivering all the highest points from a great hip-hop group's career. The collection also includes the first solo track from Q-Tip, 1999's 'Vivrant Thing'. Which, if you know it, is an awesome summery earworm.
Fabiana Palladino (Vinyl) by Fabiana Palladino
Fabiana Palladino releases her hotly anticipated self-titled debut album. The UK vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer releases Fabiana Palladino via Paul Institute/XL Recordings. Made in the wake of the end of a long relationship, the album is an intimate record that sees Fabiana Palladino confront complex questions about love, loneliness and normativity in relationships. The result is a 10-track full-length of shapeshifting sonics that draws inspiration from the big R&B, Soul, Pop and Disco studio productions of the 80s and 90s and filters them through a modern lens.
Written and self-produced by Palladino, the album features performances from renowned musicians and close friends including Paul Institute co-founder Jai Paul, her father and legendary session bassist Pino Palladino, brother and Yussef Dayes bassist Rocco Palladino, renowned drummer Steve Ferrone and strings from Rob Moose.
Dume (Vinyl) by Neil Young With Crazy Horse
Dume is ostensibly a radical expansion of 1975’s Zuma, Point Dume being the headland next to Zuma Beach near producer David Briggs’ house in Malibu, where much of the album was recorded. Dume ditches the incongruous CSNY collab 'Through My Sails' from the original Zuma tracklisting and replaces it with eight blazing cuts from the sessions.
The idea behind Dume was to weave songs from the Zuma album with unreleased tracks and mixes from that period; to use the Zuma album as a starting point and expand it into a brand-new entity, with unreleased tracks and alternate mixes. Eight out of Zuma’s nine tracks are included in exactly the same versions (‘Through My Sails’ is the only one omitted) everything else is unreleased, or was until 2020, when the Archives Vol. 2 CD box came out. This is the first time they’ve been released on vinyl.
Laugh Track (Vinyl) by The National
The surprise companion to The National's April 2023 release First Two Pages of Frankenstein, Laugh Track is the band's most freewheeling, all-hands-on-deck album in years. If Frankenstein represented a rebuilding of trust between group members after 20+ years together, the vibrant, exploratory Laugh Track is both the product of that faith and a new statement of intent.
Idle Moments (Vinyl) by Grant Green
Recorded in 1963 and released in 1965, Idle Moments features Grant Green with a phenomenal band: Joe Henderson on tenor saxophone, Bobby Hutcherson on vibraphone, Duke Pearson on piano, Bob Cranshaw on bass, and Al Harewood on drums. For those who have perhaps wondered where to start with jazz guitar in general or Grant Green in particular, well, here. Here is where you start. It is both beautiful and mesmerising; ideal for those cold winter nights and yet equally perfect for those long summer afternoons. You know the ones - when daylight saving has kicked in, the air fresh and the twilight goes on for what seems like ever.
I Hear You (Indie Exclusive Blue Vinyl) by Peggy Gou
There has never been a figure in pop culture like Peggy Gou. The self-managed South Korean-born, Berlin-based producer and artist has ascended from underground sensation to global icon by sticking to her own unwavering vision, becoming one of the most in-demand electronic music artists and DJs in the world. On her long-awaited debut album, I Hear You, arriving 7th June on XL Recordings, Gou boldly claims her voice through the kaleidoscopic lens of ‘90s house music, delivering a nostalgic, yet electrifyingly forward-thinking sound, bringing in a unique set of collaborators from Lenny Kravitz and Villano Antillano, to Olafur Eliasson.
Uptown Top Ranking: Ska & Reggae Chartbusters (Vinyl) by Various artists
Among the myriad of reggae compilations on offer, you'd be hard pressed to find one that ticks as many boxes as this one. This fantastic double-vinyl set includes artists such as Desmond Dekker, The Maytals, The Upsetters, Bob Andy & Marica Griffiths, Greyhound and so much more.
Long Way Home (Vinyl) by Ray LaMontagne
Recorded and produced by Ray LaMontagne in (fittingly) his home studio, Long Way Home is the follow-up to 2020's critically acclaimed album Monovision. Of the album, LaMontagne says, 'Every song on Long Way Home is in one way or another honoring the journey. The languorous days of youth and innocence. The countless battles of adulthood, some won, more often lost. It's been a long hard road, and I wouldn’t change a minute.'
Into the Blue (Frosted Coke Bottle Vinyl) by Aaron Frazer
Following Aaron Frazer’s lauded 2021 debut, Into the Blue is expansive: a daring blend of soul, psychedelia, spaghetti western, disco, gospel and hip-hop, representing the impressive range of Frazer’s sonic talents. Frazer maintains the unmistakable falsetto and classic songwriting he’s known for, but plants Into the Blue firmly in the now with a hip-hop mentality at its core, weaving together genres and production techniques to form something new.
