The Smile, Idles, Laura Marling, and More Releasing Rough Trade Exclusive Vinyl Records


Rough Trade has announced its top 100 albums of 2024, led by SOPHIE’s posthumous self-titled album. To celebrate, the indie retailer is selling exclusive vinyl pressings tied to the top 20 albums on its list. Featured are new offerings from SOPHIE, the Smile, Idles, Laura Marling, Charli XCX, Yard Act, and more. Find the list of exclusives, available in-store and online, below. Check out Rough Trade’s 100 favorite albums here.

In a statement, Toby L, a co-founder of Transgressive Records, said of SOPHIE: “It’s been the greatest of honors for Transgressive to be involved with what we consider to be a truly timeless, transcendent and landmark album. Thank you, Rough Trade; we are forever grateful for all of your support.”


01 SOPHIE: SOPHIE

Rough Trade is offering the first vinyl edition of the late SOPHIE’s lone remix album, 2019’s Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides Non-Stop Remix Album. The collection features three exclusive red vinyl LPs. The musician’s self-titled album is also available on silver vinyl.

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SOPHIE: Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides Non-Stop Remix Album

02 English Teacher: This Could Be Texas

English Teacher’s Mercury Prize–winning debut, This Could Be Texas, is available on galaxy gold vinyl and milky white vinyl—both exclusive to Rough Trade. To go with it, the band’s Live From Maida Vale EP is pressed on an exclusive 10″ chalk white vinyl.

English Teacher: This Could Be Texas

English Teacher: Live From BBC Maida Vale

03 Laura Marling: Patterns in Repeat

Laura Marling recorded much of her lovely new album, Patterns in Repeat, beside her infant daughter, and she’s got a new offering that should also appeal to children’s sensibilities. With Laura Sings Raffi, Marling covers 11 songs from the children’s music icon Raffi Cavoukian.

Laura Marling: Patterns in Repeat

Laura Marling: Laura Marling Sings Raffi

04 The Smile: Cutouts

The Smile are pairing their two 2024 albums—Wall of Eyes and Cutouts—with an exclusive, three-track live 12″ that is in a slipcase made to house both of the LPs separately.

The Smile: Live at the BBC 6Music Festival 2024

05 The Last Dinner Party: Prelude to Ecstasy

The Last Dinner Party’s debut, Prelude to Ecstasy, comes in an exclusive vinyl colorway with a new mirrorboard sleeve.

The Last Dinner Party: Prelude to Ecstasy

06 Idles: Tangk

Idles are offering a new 12″ featuring recordings of their June performance at Glastonbury.

Idles: Live at Glastonbury

07 Amyl and the Sniffers: Cartoon Darkness

Amyl and the Sniffers are releasing an exclusive, six-track live album. It captures the band’s August 15 performance at Los Angeles’ Fonda Theatre, and only 1,000 copies will be available worldwide.

Amyl and the Sniffers: Cartoon Darkness

Amyl and the Sniffers: Live at the Fonda

08 Charli XCX: Brat

Charli XCX signed copies of her world-conquering album Brat. That’s brat.

09 Sprints: Letter to Self

Only 500 copies are available of Sprints’ new magenta Live in Dublin vinyl LP.

10 Yard Act: Where’s My Utopia?

Yard Act recorded a new covers EP exclusively for Rough Trade. They made the project at the Nave Recording Studio in their native Leeds, England.

Yard Act: Where’s My Utopia?

Yard Act: Live at the Nave

11 Father John Misty: Mahashmashana

Father John Misty is offering a bonus signed print to go with the “loser edition” of Mahashmashana.

Father John Misty: Mahashmashana

12 Denzel Curry: King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2

The vinyl edition of Denzel Curry’s King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2 is bundled with a bonus 7″ flex-disc featuring a previously unreleased track.

Denzel Curry: King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2

13 Fontaines D.C.: Romance

Fontaines D.C.’s Romance is available in several vinyl editions at Rough Trade.

14 Ezra Collective: Dance, No One’s Watching

The new, exclusive blue vinyl edition of Ezra Collective’s Dance, No One’s Watching comes with signed Polaroid pictures.

Ezra Collective: Dance, No One’s Watching

15 St. Vincent: All Born Screaming

St. Vincent signed limited-edition posters to go with All Born Screaming.

St. Vincent: All Born Screaming

16 Clairo: Charm

Clairo’s Charm has been pressed to exclusive coral pink vinyl. Only 750 copies are available.

17 Kneecap: Fine Art

Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap are pairing their album Fine Art with a bonus 7″ flex-disc featuring the song “H.O.O.D.”

18 Magdalena Bay: Imaginal Disk

Magdalena Bay’s Imaginal Disk is now pressed on translucent vinyl—but there are just 300 copies available.

Magdalena Bay: Imaginal Disk

19 Knocked Loose: You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To

Knocked Loose are offering a signed hardcover hymnal book featuring songs and imagery from You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To’s title song, “Upon Loss,” and “A Tear in the Fabric of Life.”

Knocked Loose: You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To

20 Cassandra Jenkins: My Light, My Destroyer

Cassandra Jenkins signed a new lyric booklet that is specific to her native New York.

Cassandra Jenkins: My Light, My Destroyer



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