Vinyl Records, Music & the Things Worth Caring About
A personal site by SpinAndGroove — covering the things that make life worth paying attention to: music on vinyl, the gear that plays it, photography, travel, food, and the occasional longer thought about all of the above.
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Music
Album reviews from my vinyl collection — soul, jazz, rock, funk and more — plus original music I have recorded myself.
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Audio Gear
Honest impressions of turntables, phono preamps, cartridges and speakers — written from real ownership, not spec sheets.
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Photography
Images made for the pleasure of seeing — street, travel, still life. Portfolios by subject, occasional notes on technique.
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Travel
Accounts of places as I actually experienced them — the meals, the neighbourhoods, the moments that do not appear in any guidebook.
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Food
Food I love eating and food I cook at home — recipes written the way I actually make them, with the shortcuts and the lessons from getting it wrong first.
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Thoughts
Slower, more considered writing about how to live attentively — personal philosophy, reflections, and things I am still trying to work out.
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Some jazz records are for listening. Some are for playing loudly and forgetting where you are. Light As A Feather does both — it works as…
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Some records find you before you find them. I came across Two Feet in the Gutter in a bin somewhere — I honestly can’t remember which one —…
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There are records I play when I want energy. And then there’s Behaviour — the record I play when I want the opposite of energy. Not…
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If Head Hunters was the record that introduced the mainstream to Herbie Hancock’s electric funk direction, Thrust is the record that showed…
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There are jazz albums that are historically important. There are jazz albums that sound incredible. And then, every so often, there’s one…
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Pet Shop Boys don’t do short. Introspective — their third album, released in October 1988 — is six tracks long and runs to over forty…
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Guns N’ Roses were one of those bands I came to late. By the time I really sat down with them — properly, vinyl in hand — most people had…
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The River from Bruce Springsteen is a true rock and roll classic double album, and it’s filled with some of the most timeless songs in rock…
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