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Ausgabe 64 - November 2023

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Ausgabe 55 - Oktober 2022

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Ausgabe 46 - August 2021

7,90 €*

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Ausgabe 63 - Oktober 2023

The Hand That Fits The Glove

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Titelstory: 1973 Von The Who über Pink Floyd zu Bruce Springsteen bis New York Dolls: Der große Rückblick auf ein Jahr, in dem große Bands den Zenit ihres kreativen Schaffens erreichen und letzte Meisterwerke aufnehmen oder auch Richtungsentscheidungen treffen, Ausnahmetalente ihre Debütalben veröffentlichen und damit den Grundstein für Superstarkarrieren legen und die Punk-Bewegung ihren Anfang nimmt.

Sugar Man Die Geschichte von Songwriter Sixto Rodriguez, seinen beiden wiederentdeckten Ausnahmealben und weiteren Meisterwerken, die ebenfalls fast vergessen worden wären.

Master-Class Frank Wonneberg befasst sich in seiner Reihe diesmal mit dem Akustik-Livealbum „Unplugged“ von Eric Clapton.

Rega Made in England: Wir besuchen das Werk des legendären HiFi-Herstellers in Leigh-on-Sea in Großbritannien und treffen den Firmengründer Roy Gandy. Soundtrack Of My Life MC5-Gitarrist Wayne Kramer über das Free-Jazz-Album „Ascension“ von John Coltrane, das seine Weltsicht veränderte.

Enthüllt: The Pogues Die Geschichten zum Cover von The Pogues’ Folk-Punk-Klassiker „New Peace And Love“, designt von Simon Ryan.

Weitere Themen der Ausgabe Praxistests zu Plattenspieler, Vollverstärker und Standlautsprecher, Über 100 LP-Besprechungen auf 42 Seiten, die Rubrik „33 1/3 Cover“, News-Features, Dr. Mint, Vinyl-Vorschau, das Sleeveface des Monats und vieles mehr.

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Faith Healer

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Mint)

22,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Faith Healer quietly crystallizes on their new album The Hand That Fits The Glove, reshaping their already approachable pop sound into something even more immediate and invigorating.

With their 2017 album Try ;-), the duo of Jessica Jalbert and producer/multi-instrumentalist Renny Wilson began stripping away some of the ‘60s chamber pop influences that had informed the earliest Faith Healer material, and these eight new songs continue expanding outward in new directions. It’s a multicolored assortment of richly detailed songwriting that feels surprisingly straightforward, knowingly concealing its complexities always just beneath a sheen of composed cool.

The evolution that brought Faith Healer to this point has been ongoing since the project’s earliest days. Jalbert and Wilson had been working together since the time when Jalbert was still performing under her own name in the early 2010’s, transitioning to the Faith Healer moniker on 2015 album Cosmic Troubles and their creative partnership truly solidifying with Try ;-). Those albums were built from the ground up with an insular design, with sole contributors Jalbert and Wilson adding overdubs and sculpting the sound. The core Faith Healer duo expands their membership for the first time on The Hand That Fits The Glove, inviting additional musicians into the picture and filling out the sound with a live band feel. Players from various intersections of Canada’s indie circles played on the album, including contributions from longtime Faith Healer collaborators like Jenni Roberts (who’s also done some time as a touring musician on runs with Tops and Calvin Love), Mitch Davis (a solo artist with work out on Arbutus), Conor Donaldson (sometimes drummer for Mac DeMarco), and Ross Nicoll. Jalbert and Wilson worked intermittently with different personnel in different settings, meticulously refining songs over time until they were dialed in with precision

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Ausgabe 58 - Februar 2023

6,39 €* 7,99 € -20%

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Mint)

Only A Visitor

Decay

25,99 €*

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Mint)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Described as “Bjork's light-footed nymph child,” (Beatroute) Vancouver quintet Only A Visitor brings a precise and buoyant live energy to song-crafting with their “kaleidoscopic compositions” (Dusted Magazine.) Fusing together avant-pop, jazz, classical and DIY influences and substituting guitar with three part harmonies that “display a delightful innovation” (HuffPost,) they have released three albums to date and have recently signed to Mint Records for their fourth release Decay. Since forming in 2015, they have appeared at the Montreal, Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver Jazz Festivals and the Vancouver Island Music Festival, among others, and have toured Canada and internationally. With drummer Kevin Romain, bassist Jeff Gammon, and vocalists Emma Postl and Celina Kurz, classically trained but DIY nurtured songwriter and arranger Robyn Jacob wraps gently asymmetrical sonic tendrils around pop skeletons.

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Dumb

Pray 4 Tomorrow

20,99 €* 27,99 € -25%

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dumb had a classic start as a DIY outfit back in 2015, playing their first shows in the dining room of a tear-down in east Vancouver. The four band members, Franco Rossino, Shelby Vredik, Pipe Morelli, and Nick Short, were all part of a larger group of friends that jammed and partied together often. Seven years later, the band is set to release their third LP with Mint Records, Pray 4 Tomorrow—self-recorded at Choms, a studio co-owned by Nick Short and Franco Rossino. Dumb has toured extensively in North America and Europe, played with Wolf Parade and Dilly Dally, and are known for their catchy punk rhythms, squealing guitar feedback, and strongly spoken lyrics. Over the years Dumb’s songwriting has developed, and on Pray 4 Tomorrow their pop sensibilities manage to shine through the dissonant tones and syncopated rhythms borrowed from Yo La Tengo and Devo. Consider “Excuse me”, which finds a Beach Boys-esque melody placed gently atop the drop-tuned dissonance of Rossino and Short’s duelling guitars, or “Gibberish”—a heavy hitting post-punk bop that culminates in a melodic instrumental piano outro. Dumb is doing their best to balance their noisier tendencies with pretty melodies, in an approach similar to San Francisco’s Pardoner. Rossino’s vocals have matured from abstract rambling towards nuanced commentary, often poking fun at his own self-righteous attitude towards the stress of living in the information age. In “Out of Touch”, Rossino yells “I can see you talking but it sounds like simulations, I’m not sure I’ve got the patience, I’m already full of shit”. In “Gibberish” Rossino sings “thank you kindly but I think I’ll keep my eyes closed” on wanting to shut out the constant stream of targeted advertising. Pray 4 Tomorrow is Dumb’s most refined album to date, but also their most eclectic mix of influences. There’s something for everyone on the album, with two Specials-influenced Ska interpretations, a couple of folk tunes with vocals from bassist Shelby Vredik, and a series of Minor Threat style B-side rants, all enveloped in the unique post-punk sound that the band has honed over the years.

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Ausgabe 54 - August 2022

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LP | 2022 | CA | Original (Mint)

Heaven For Real

Energy Bar

22,99 €*

Release: 2022 / CA – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"My life: a slow clap progression, pace rising; to celebrate in the smallest finding - feels right to show admiration that grows," Mark Grundy begins on “Slow Clap”, the first track from Heaven For Real’s sophomore full-length Energy Bar. Formed in 2012, and consisting of songwriter twins Mark and J. Scott Grundy (Quaker Parents) and their frequent collaborators, drummer Nathan Doucet and synth player/percussionist Cher Hann, the Toronto by way of Halifax project has been taking time to shape the follow-up to their 2016 Mint debut, Kill Your Memory. Springboarding from their early 2022 EP, Sweet Rose Green Winter Desk Top Tell This Side Autumn Of The Fighter Hot In A Cool Way, they describe the project as a “living collaboration”, one that strives to compress life’s truths into a distorted reflection of all of its facets. It’s this that drives Energy Bar – a hyper, trash-compacted mosaic of the band ten years that’s simultaneously dreamlike and alive. Recording the album with Jonas Bonnetta at Port William Sound, H4R aimed to cultivate an electrically charged live energy, which they fuse with rich and playful compositions. Tracks like “Lately” and “Energy Bar” are defined by tireless, wired drums, around which are woven buoyant guitar lines, sounding at times like the weirder shades of bands like Meat Puppets, Prefab Sprout and even early Cate Le Bon. Included too are hints of The Feelies, Mdou Moctar, Built To Spill and Cast; Heaven For Real’s approach is an experimental one, yet one unafraid to embrace genre as a tool for expression.

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Ausgabe 53 - Juli 2022

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LP | 2022 | CA | Original (Mint)

Kamikaze Nurse

Stimuloso

25,99 €*

Release: 2022 / CA – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ausgabe 52 - Mai 2022

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Mint 365 - Kalender 2022

24,90 €*

Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz

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Jeden Tag Vinyl, das ganze Jahr! Okay, die meisten von euch werden das wohl eh so halten, eure Plattenspieler setzen sicher keinen Staub an. Trotzdem wird euch der MINT-Vinyl-Kalender gut unterhalten und inspirieren – versprochen. Denn jeden Tag erwartet euch ein spannendes neues Kalenderblatt: von Plattencover-Kunst bis zu Jubiläen herausragender Alben, von Künstlerporträts über Pflege- und Technik-Tipps bis zu den besten Plattenläden Deutschlands. 365 Beiträge, die die MINT-Redaktion für euch zusammengestellt hat. Zum Aufstellen – am besten natürlich in direkte Nähe eures Plattenspielers.

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Jooj Two

LP | 2021 | CA | Original (Mint)

25,99 €*

Release: 2021 / CA – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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An iconic Canadian media figure, Sook-Yin Lee is an award-winning filmmaker, musician, actor, visual artist and broadcaster who has immersed herself in myriad creative collaborations. Many of them were made with her life partner and frequent co-creator Adam Litovitz, including their 2015 ethereal electroacoustic album jooj. Though Litovitz passed away in 2019, his work with Lee lives on with jooj two, an unapologetic dive into playful art-pop and a document of a lost language between lovers. While financial difficulties and external pressures contributed to the end of their romantic relationship, Lee and Litovitz remained best friends and creative partners. As he was busy with a soundtrack for Netflix, Litovitz gave Lee his blessing to continue working on their second album without him. Increasingly, Litovitz struggled with anxiety and depression, compounded by a prescription drug dependency that exacerbated insomnia and pain. Tragically, he died by suicide June 16, 2019. Litovitz’s passing was a profound loss for Lee and so many who loved him. Lee saw pieces of his irrepressible spirit—as well as the story of their relationship—contained within the music they had recorded for jooj two and was determined to share it with the world. With the assistance of mixer Steve Chahley (U.S. Girls, Badge Époque Ensemble, Darlene Shrugg), Lee completed this album and will share it with the world this spring. There is an intentionality and inherent uniqueness to jooj two’s songwriting approach that first took shape by Lee responding to a musical phrase with vocal melodies and stream of consciousness lyrics. Those experiments were transcribed and delightfully interpreted by Litovitz, then returned to Lee for finessing. The resulting wordplay across eleven enigmatic and accessible tracks evokes the feeling of a new language being born.

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Ausgabe 43 - April 2021

7,90 €*

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LP | 2008 | US | Reissue (Mint)

The Pack A.D.

Tintype

19,79 €* 21,99 € -10%

Neko Case & Her Boyfriends

Release: 2008 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Back in the mid ’aughts a band called The Pack came out of nowhere with some dirt and booze flavored garage rock and the world made them put “A.D.” at the end of their name to signify that things would never be the same. Soon after recording their debut album, Tintype, The Pack A.D. came over to the Mint offices with a bottle of Jack Daniels and walked out of there with a record contract. That album came out shortly after in the middle of a grey January in 2008.

A decade later the band has played close to a thousand shows and released seven albums. Their music still feels like a cup of black coffee drunk too fast but along the way Tintype fell out of print. Mint has decided to fix that. It is finally being re-issued on the format it was meant to be heard : vinyl. It’s been remastered by Stuart McKillop at Rain City Recorders and the label dug through some dusty boxes for old flyers and photos to include in the liner notes to make it extra special and remind everyone what they missed or can’t remember.

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The Virginian

CD | Reissue (Mint)

6,99 €*

Release: Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Mint)

The Nora Kelly Band

Rodeo Clown

22,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ausgabe 62 - August 2023

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Ausgabe 60 - Mai 2023

5,99 €* 7,99 € -25%