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Ausgabe 60 - Mai 2023

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Titelstory: Vinyl-Report Paris
Auf 45 Seiten begeben wir uns auf einen ausführlichen Trip durch die Plattenläden von Paris, zeichnen die Entwicklung der Rockmusik zwischen Rhein und Atlantik nach, werfen einen Blick auf die Besonderheiten der französischen Vinyl-Kultur und stellen – von Françoise Hardy über Gong bis Daft Punk – 33 der besten Alben französischer Herkunft vor, die auch hierzulande ins Plattenregal gehören.

Clearaudio
High End Made in Germany: Wir besuchen die Produktionshallen des traditionsreichen fränkischen Familienbetriebs.

Vinyl-Laube
Wir verbringen einen Abend mit fünf Freunden, die in einer Dortmunder Gartenlaube ihre Leidenschaft für Vinyl teilen.

Master Class
Frank Wonneberg befasst sich in seiner Reihe zu großen Alben mit „Tubular“ Bells von Mike Oldfield.

Enthüllt: Yellow Magic Orchestra
Die Geschichten zum Cover von Yellow Magic Orchestras „Solid State Survivor“, fotografiert von Masayoshi Sukita.

Soundtrack Of My Life
Jethro-Tull-Mastermind Ian Anderson über den Folk-Klassiker „Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith“ von Roy Harper.

Weitere Themen der Ausgabe: Praxistests zu Plattenspieler, Phono-Vorverstärker und Tonabnehmer, über 100 LP-Besprechungen auf 50 Seiten, die Rubrik „33 1 / 3 Cover“, News-Features, Dr. MINT, Vinyl-Vorschau, das Sleeveface des Monats und vieles mehr.

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Ausgabe 54 - August 2022

6,79 €* 7,99 € -15%

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Mint 365 - Kalender 2022

9,99 €* 24,90 € -59%

Unconditional Love In Hi-Fi

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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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Miesha & The Spanks

LP | 2023 | CA | Original (Mint)

24,99 €*

Release: 2023 / CA – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Uncompromising, witty, authentic, inspiring–Miesha & The Spanks have established themselves as a rock ‘n’ roll force of nature to be reckoned with. The Calgary-based duo are equal parts searing guitarist / heart-melting vocalist and all-stage / all-star percussionist personality. Vexatious frontwoman Miesha Louie sets the steamrollers of love a-rollin’, ploughing through obstacles and destroying assumptions, like a red-hot indie music machine. Her new record Unconditional Love In Hi-Fi is her Mint Records debut; the album was produced by The Buzzcocks' Danny Farrant. The record's themes touch on personal and political topics such as parenthood and stories related to Miesha's mixed Shuswap heritage. Miesha and the Spanks have extensive tour plans following the release of Unconditional Love in Hi-Fi including the UK, Europe, US and Canada. Riyl: Wet Leg, Alvvays, Fleshwater, Black Mountain, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Joan Jett

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Ausgabe 58 - Februar 2023

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Mint)

Only A Visitor

Decay

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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Ausgabe 56 - November 2022

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LP | 2022 | US | Original (Mint)

Dumb

Pray 4 Tomorrow

25,19 €* 27,99 € -10%

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 55 - Oktober 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

Release: 2022 / CA – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ausgabe 52 - Mai 2022

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Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz

Jooj Two

LP | 2021 | CA | Original (Mint)

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 46 - August 2021

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Ausgabe 43 - April 2021

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LP | 2008 | US | Reissue (Mint)

Pack A.D., The

Tintype

21,99 €*

LP | 2023 | CA | Original (Mint)

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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Vivek Shraya

Baby, You're Projecting