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Approved: Light In The Attic Road Trip

By | Published on Tuesday 15 October 2013

Light In The Attic Records

Here’s a suggestion to supersize your Tuesday in an all-American kind of way: how about looking in on ‘lost’ vinyl saviours Light In The Attic’s annual Road Trip, which is being chronicled on Pitchfork.

Dedicated to re-releasing remembered (and less so) classic records, the Seattle-based label has, over its nine years in existence, lent new relevance to archive discs by Rodriguez, D’Angelo, Lee Hazelwood, Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin and Betty Davis, notably working with so-called ‘rock n roll farmers’ Donnie and Joe Emerson to salvage the pair’s essential 1979 LP ‘Dreamin Wild’.

The Road Trip, which they do every year, finds Team LITA scaling the States, visiting 80 record stores in a bid to talk to as many artists, shop owners and vinyl-lovers as possible. It’s probably worth following, if only as an ‘in’ to the many admirable things Light In The Attic do as a day job.

Screen the Father John Misty-featuring episode 1, via Pitchfork TV – who will cover later Road Trip stops via a rolling broadcast – now:



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