I’ve probably tried everything bar doing it by the colour of the sleeve, but I currently arrange my LPs by record label. Admittedly, if someone put a gun to my head and demanded that I locate every LP by every member of Emeralds currently in my possession, I might have a problem, but I’m banking on that being a highly unlikely thing to happen. So many labels have such a strong ethos, from the sort of music they release through to sleeve design, that to an extent that these labels feel like a canon of work, as much as the cumulative catalogue of any individual artist could. I would no more separate my Olde English Spelling Bee LPs than I would split up my Impulse jazz LPs, for example. Over at The Liminal I (with help from the rest of the team) celebrate those labels, those curators, who have done so much to shape our record collections in 2010.
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