Vinyl Moon is the first, and only, mixtape Record of the Month Club! Discover new favorite bands on beautiful vinyl every month - exclusively pressed and designed for Vinyl Moon!
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The Subscription Box: Vinyl Moon
The Cost: $30 per month to the US (shipping included)
The Products: A themed and exclusively pressed vinyl mixtape record!
Ships: Worldwide
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This is only my second delivery of Vinyl Moon - but everything about this month's delivery was incredible!
Every shipment comes with a booklet. Inside, you'll read about this mixtape's theme - which is 'Might' - and dive a little deeper into the reasons behind it.
You'll find information about each artist featured on your vinyl, along with individual song liner notes - I love following allow with these as I listen! Plus, you'll get information about this month's artist.
Staying on the lines of the artwork - this month's vinyl, gatefold, and booklet art was INCREDIBLE!
Mister Mourao is an artist hailing from Barcelona, Spain. All of these illustrations will make a lot more sense once you find our that he is a former architect converted to Illustrator. All work is done with only a pen.
With that in mind, you'll start to see all of the building design on his gatefold artwork - there is a ton of detail. That's all fantastic, but it leaves the best part yet to be seen...
These beautiful translucent vinyl pressings with the architectural illustration work on the reverse side. Beautiful!
The designs make side 2 of the vinyl unplayable, so you'll be getting to vinyl records for the 10 song playlist.
I enjoyed the Volume 22 playlist much more than my previous review, it was a bit more in my wheelhouse - and while I didn't love every song, there were quite a few that I did really enjoy - all from bands I had never heard of, or listened to - that's the kind of thing I'm always looking for! It's so much easier to make and distribute music these days that it's hard for me to keep up - so far, I'm loving that this subscription has made it a point to surface that kind of material - and with the most beautiful packaging ever.
Verdict: I really love what Vinyl Moon is doing! If you're like me, you can never get enough music and you can also never keep up with all of the music being made available today through all of the streaming services. While this only scratches the surface of all the music I'm missing, I love that they've packaged it up into something consumable for me to quickly listen to and read about each artist. On top of that, the custom vinyl pressings have been really something to admire - I'm already excited for my next shipment!
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