“My first experience with vinyl was an important one.”
“When I was in junior high, my uncle lent me The Beatles’ 1962-1966 and 1967-1970 compilations on vinyl. This was the first time I’d obsessed over records, sitting in front of my dad’s stereo with a pair of headphones. It didn’t hurt my first vinyl experience was also my first Beatles experience.
Once I left home for university I started buying vinyl. We have some great shops in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Select Sounds, Taz Records, and Obsolete are shops we visit frequently.
We stream music just as much as anyone and purchase vinyl when we really love a record. Streaming is just the test drive for us.
I think the current era we’re living in is incredible. We have easy access to almost everything. It can be overwhelming, but our tastes have broadened so much in the last 5 years since streaming took over. It beats the days of file sharing. I still have a pirated digital copy of David Bowie’s Lodger that has a Backstreet Boys song randomly tossed on.
We can credit vinyl for shaping the music Villages creates today. A few years back, the four of us started sharing records from the English folkies of the ’70s. We began picking up records by Vashti Bunyan, Richard and Linda Thompson, Anne Briggs, and Sandy Denny.
It didn’t take long for this stuff to seep into our writing, and we formed Villages.”
—Travis Ellis
“Cremation (Ashes to Ashes),” the new single from Villages is in stores now.
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