Rough Trade 50: Last exclusives available online

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1996-2005
Drop Three / Five

50 Records for 50 Years
Rough Trade 50th Anniversary Editions

While some titles have already sold out online, we have some remaining copies from our third drop.

Check the site to see which titles you can still snap up before they hit the racks and check our blog for the full story.

Copies are set to land in all stores at the end of June – we’ll keep you posted on the exact date so keep an eye on your inbox.

 

History, reissued.

One for each year Rough Trade has been open, featuring an exclusive vinyl pressing, with special bonus material: unique liner notes, stories, and fresh interviews.

Vinyl and packaging

Belle and Sebastian
Tigermilk

Softly shuffling indie-pop. On Tigermilk, Belle and Sebastiansketch out a world both fragile and quietly defiant, setting the blueprint for everything that followed.
Rough Trade Exclusive pink vinyl, plus zine and 7″ including two previously unreleased songs.
 
Limited to 1250 copies.
Vinyl and packaging

Blur
Blur

A wiry, self-titled pivot away from Britpop’s bright-eyed certainties, Blur finds the band digging into lo-fi grit, American indie textures and a creeping sense of dislocation.
Rough Trade Exclusive half speed master, orange base with yellow splatter vinyl in gatefold sleeve.
 
Limited to 2000 copies.
Vinyl and packaging

Neutral Milk Hotel
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Jeff Mangum’s cracked voice and surreal imagery collide in something fragile, feverish and quietly transcendent, Neutral Milm Hotel‘s sophomore is a lo-fi cornerstone that still aches with life.
Rough Trade Exclusive copper ruby shimmer vinyl.
 
Limited to 2000 copies. 
 
Vinyl and packaging

Sigur Rós
Ágætis byrjun

Ágætis Byrjun feels like a signal from somewhere just out of reach, otherworldly yet deeply human. It remains a transformative post-rock touchstone.
Rough Trade Exclusive 4LP featuring ‘Live at Íslenska Óperan, Reykjavik’, in bespoke ‘Fancentric’ accordion packaging.
 
Limited to 2000 copies.
Vinyl and packaging

Lemonjelly
Lemonjelly.ky

What do you do, in the bath? The duo’s debut drifts between nostalgia and daydream with an effortless charm, as playful as it is transportive.
Rough Trade Exclusive double LP with red, orange, yellow and light blue, blue, dark blue vinyl.
 
Limited to 1500 copies.
Vinyl and packaging

Richard Hawley
Late Night Final

Richard Hawley’s second solo record is beautifully elegant and intimate. A soundtrack for lonely city lights and lingering memories.
Rough Trade Exclusive vinyl with clear base with black and red splatter.
 
Limited to 500 copies.
 
Vinyl and packaging

The Streets
Original Pirate Material

Restless UK garage, streetwise humour and late-night philosophy, mapping inner-city life with a raw immediacy. Still hits.
Rough Trade Exclusive gold marble vinyl.
 
Limited to 2000 copies.
 
Vinyl and packaging

White Stripes
Elephant

Jack’s unravelling yelp and Meg’s primal, unshakeable drumming, Elephant strips rock ’n’ roll to the bone and rebuilds it louder, dirtier and defiantly alive.
Rough Trade Exclusive red and white split vinyl.
 
Limited to 1000 copies.
Vinyl and packaging

Max Richter
The Blue Notebooks

Composer Max Richter‘s second album drifts between memory and unease, its quiet repetitions carrying the weight of a world just out of joint.
Rough Trade Exclusive silver and black splatter vinyl.
 
Limited to 1000 copies.
Vinyl and packaging

Sufjan Stevens
Illinois

Sufjan Stevens maps the American heartland with a rare balance of wonder and unease. A lingering, gorgeous masterpiece.
Rough Trade Exclusive superhero splatter vinyl.
 
Limited to 2500 copies.
 
Rough Trade Essential vinyl and packaging

Join the club. 

Sign up to Rough Trade Club: Essential and receive 12 Rough Trade Exclusive 50th Anniversary vinyl editions. Own Neutral Milk Hotel, Belle and Sebastian, and Sufjan Stevens. Also includes The Specials, Cocteau Twins, Aphex Twin and more, with others still to come. Plus free shipping on all orders online, event access and more.

Limited to just 500 subscribers.

Wear the story. Exclusive merch.

Limited edition logo printed t-shirts and tote bags, featuring the very first Rough Trade logo as seen in the window of our original shop in Kensington Park Road, never before printed on a t-shirt. Available in the UK and EU.

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