The Playlist: The Inkwell

Stevie Mackenzie-Smith

The Inkwell curates The Playlist, our new top 5 music recommendations chosen by taste-makers in the north.

While a visit to the Minster is the mainstay of any trip to York, it’s also worth a stroll around the corner to Gillygate where sits an altar of a different variety. The Inkwell is a record store-cum-pop culture shrine. It’s a small but inviting shop, and Paul the owner will make you tea or coffee for a quid while you browse. Records and books are arranged across pew-like rows of school desks and a signed photograph of a grinning Steve Martin beams from a wall, saint-like, a version of his famous arrow-through-the-head prop hanging nearby.

On our last trip to York we perused Paul’s carefully selected stock and chatted about Leonard Bernstein’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (and the revived interest it received after being featured in Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom) as well as the joy of children’s records. We also picked Paul’s brains for his own music recommendations and he kindly agreed to curate our latest playlist, featuring Frank Sinatra’s 1969 album Watertown, the greatest album from “the greatest band” (discuss) to the more recent LP from Fuzz, one of Ty Segall’s many musical outings. Here then, are The Inkwell’s Top 5 albums, to delve into over the next fortnight:

 

1. Classroom Projects – Incredible Music Made By Children In Schools

2. De La Soul – Three Feet High and Rising & Rising

3. Frank Sinatra – Watertown

4. Fuzz – Fuzz (Trouble In Mind)

5. The Beatles- The Beatles (The White Album)

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