Rough Trade's Albums of the Year 2025 Rough Trade's Albums of the Year 2025. A list of the top albums of the year from Rough Trade. See who made the list.

The first year end list has arrived...

Bill Fay - Time of the Last Persecution (Deram 1971). This is a 2025 Deram reissue.

#NowPlaying I am so pleased to finally have this on vinyl. It really is a perfect album. I very nearly paid £100 for a 2021 RSD copy, so the news that it was getting another reissue was most welcome. It's a lovely pressing, too.

Still a few days to go. Minimal interest so far which means you'll almost certainly get any requests on the show and get your name read out in a strange public house. What greater incentive do you need?

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Radio O.L.A.F DJ Patrick Fury holding the Gilbert-Williamson classic album The Tragedy of Dirk Munro.

Hawkeye has a great record collection!

The Mighty Olafs Record Club is a live pretend radio show held monthly at The Anchor in Sevenoaks. We build a thematic playlist from your suggestions here and those of bewildered locals on the night.

A treasure trove of previous playlists available here. open.spotify.com/user/howefam...

Two long unavailable and superb Bill Fay records are back in print!

beartreerecords.com/collections/...

Depiction of Bael, “the first king of hell”, with the head of a toad, a man, and a cat — one of the many illustrations by Louis le Breton for the 1863 edition of Jacques Collin de Plancy’s "Dictionnaire infernal". More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/defining-the-demonic/

I was working as a traveller in an antique land, that much is true

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Plans That They Made: Hüsker Dü Interviewed | The Quietus Stevie Chick talks to Bob Mould and Greg Norton about Grant Hart, American punk and paving the road for Nirvana

Discovered Husker Du when I was 16, in the wake of Nevermind, and they were my absolute North Star for years, and remain so close to my heart. Thanks so much to @thequietus.com for letting me write this. It’s quite long. thequietus.com/interviews/h...

Wendy May's Locomotion 40th Anniversary All Dayer at the 229 Club in London's Great Portland Street. 22nd February 2026. DJs Wendy May, Phill Jupitus, Andy Lewis, Jane Wilkes

This is happening next year and it's going to be wonderful

Yes, Call of the Wild and White Fang were in the children's section of the mobile library. Are you covering Plague Dogs by Richard Adams?

The BBC website's most recent story on Sarah Pochin is not exactly the actual more recent story about her, is it?

Favourite song featuring the word cochineal.https://spotify.link/QiPigicTKXb

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Educational picture related to learning fractions.

Penguin Classics Edition of Hard Times by Charles Dickens.

Picture of early meccano set.

It's the moment we've all been waiting for! The Mighty Olafs Record Club returns on Thursday 6th November, broadcasting live from The Anchor in Sevenoaks at 8pm. This month's theme Easy or Hard. Your suggestions here please!

Happy Birthday Nick. Thanks for all your musical tips. Treat yourself to these if you didn't get already.https://www.proper-records.co.uk/2025/09/bill-fay-vinyl-re-issues/

Very excited to say we have a new distributor over here for SST and have had a nice stack of releases land today, many that we have never ever had and all at a better price than before!
All the below and a whole load more!

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Animal skull found in nearby woodland. Represents the theme of life.

The Mighty Olafs band logo.

Mighty Olafs T-Sirts now on sale at Olaf's Record Store in Sevenoaks.

Thanks to everyone who came to last week's LIFE themed show and for your suggestions here.

This is the final playlist peppered with a bit more rock than usual for #NationalAlbumDay #NAD2025

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Theme for the next thrilling installment of The Mighty Olafs Record Club soon!

🎸 National Album Day 2025 – Rock Edition!

🔥 Limited edition vinyl drops tomorrow (Sat 18 Oct)!

Pre order now 👉 beyondvinyl.co.uk/national-alb...

Available in store tomorrow at Beyond Vinyl 🤘

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I love this record. So different to the rest of their stuff. You want people to hear it who might otherwise miss such a unique thing.

Vintage Classics Edition of Tolstoy's War &Peace.

Alright. I'm going in.

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.

I disagree.

RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

Good morning! This week's theme is the River Thames.
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'Bridge in London' (1908) by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky

(Private collection)

Nigel Farage Is a Racist The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda ADAM BIENKOV OCT 04, 2025 Nigel Farage is a racist. That is my honestly held opinion based on absolutely everything he has said and done since entering politics in the late nineties.

“The second anyone suggests that a man whose entire political career has been devoted to attacking migrants and making discriminatory comments about non-white people, might be a racist, all hell breaks loose”

Enough. Farage is a racist menace. We must say so.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

Just checking you've seen these are now scheduled for release. www.proper-records.co.uk/2025/09/bill...

Rock Against Racism poster c.1977 thanking the acts that had contributed performances to the cause in the previous 12 months.

The Mighty Olafs Record Club - More Favourite Cover Versions

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Thanks to everyone who came to last week's Record Club or made suggestions here.
This is the final More Favourite Cover Versions playlist for your Thursday distraction.

JUST IN! 'One Two' by Sister Nancy

Tell ‘em Nancy!

Reggae favourite featuring the iconic single ‘Bam Bam’.

www.normanrecords.com/records/2082...

Brilliant album.

Great news!