Owned since: 2022 Genre: Live American Primitivism acoustic guitar madness Where I bought it: Dig It! Utrecht Year: 1973 Label/pressing: Capitol I barely go to record shops anymore. It’s not that the area where I live in has a ton … Continue reading Crate Skimmers #52 Leo Kottke – My Feet Are Smiling

Owned since: 2012 Genre: Old people trying to get their youth back, again Where I bought it: Sounds Arnhem Year: 1976 Label/pressing:  Brother In 1976 the Beach Boys turned 15 and most of their contemporaries of either the surf rock … Continue reading Crate Skimmers #51 The Beach Boys-15 Big Ones

Owned since: 2010, day of release Genre: Springsteen punk meets history nerds Where I bought it: Bullit eindhoven Year: 2010 Label/pressing: XL records When I moved up to my current place of living, there was finally room to move in … Continue reading Crate Skimmers #50 Titus Andronicus – The Monitor

Owned since: 2011 Genre: American Primitivism Where I bought it: At the release show Year: 2011 Label/pressing: Self Published/Pavilion I don’t talk a lot about the surroundings I spent most of my life in on this site for a couple … Continue reading Crate Skimmers #48 Six Organs Of Admittance – Maria Kapel

Owned since: 2008-ish Genre: Indie pop before indie pop really became a thing Where I bought it: Can’t recall honestly Year: 1981 Label/pressing: Epic When we talk Scottish post-punk, some bands come to mind. Most long forgotten-ish beside cult followings … Continue reading Crate Skimmers #47 Altered Images – Happy Birthday

Owned since: 2022 Genre: Classical music by the way of speed metal Where I bought it: My uncle’s collection of castoffs Year: 1987 Label/pressing: Roadrunner, Cassette Here is most likely the only time ever we’re going to discuss speed metal … Continue reading Crate Skimmers: #46 Cacophony -Speed Metal Symphony

Owned since: 2022 Genre: Dad rock? Where I bought it: My Uncle Cast-offs Year: 1974 Label/pressing: Asylum, Cassette During the end of 2021 and the start of 2022 my uncle was getting renovations done to the house he has been … Continue reading Crate Skimmers #45 Bob Dylan – Planet Waves 

Owned since: 2021 Genre: Funk infused post-punk? Where I bought it: Castoffs from my uncle Year: 1978 Label/pressing: Ariola We return to some Dutch stuff, it’s been a while. I think I’ve had this record around 5 times now but … Continue reading Crate Skimmers #44 Gruppo Sportivo – 10 Mistakes

Owned since: 2013Genre: Covers by one of the lead 90’s indie pop godmothers of the USAWhere I bought it: The labelYear: 2013Label/pressing: Lost Sound Tapes This time Crate Skimmers is covering something from my small but sturdy collection of cassettes. … Continue reading Crate Skimmers #43 Rose Melberg – September

Owned since: 2012Genre: ‘You must acquire a taste for freeform noise rock’Where I bought it: Long gone distroYear: 2010Label/pressing: Skin Yard Oh look, it’s a band name so offensive I can’t even type it here or i’m going to embed … Continue reading Crate Skimmers 42 **** Wolf – March To The Sea

Owned since: 2012 Genre: Lo-fi hipster blog punk anno 2008 Where I bought it: Discogs Year: 2008 and 2009 Label/pressing: Woodist and Fat Possum, formerly on cassette These records turned 13 and 14 the year i’m writing this, which is … Continue reading Crate Skimmer #40 Wavves – Wavves & Wavvves

Owned since: 2014 Genre: Shoegaze-tinged slowcore indie-rock Where I bought it: straight from the band  Year: 2010 and 2014 Label/pressing: Katzwijm, Subroutine When I first came up with the idea of crate skimmers it was in a list of idea I … Continue reading Crate Skimmers #39 Space Siren-If You Scream Like That, Your Monkey Won’t Come

Owned since: 2022, duh Where I bought it: Streaming baby Year: 2022 Crate skimmers awakes from its coma to slowly ease back into it. 2022 hasn’t been my favorite year for a lot of things but for music it might … Continue reading Crate Skimmers #??: Bresson’s Best of 2022

Owned since: 2011 Genre: The Dillinger Escape Plan With Mike Patton-ish Where I bought it: Some record store that didn’t know what to do with their metal records Year: 2010 Label/pressing: Epitaph on Cola vinyl, reissue from the Buddyhead original … Continue reading Crate Skimmers #36 The Dillinger Escape Plan With Mike Patton ‎– Irony Is A Dead Scene

Owned since: 1986-2018 I think Genre: Everything Where I bought it: Various places Year: Various Label/pressing: Various As someone who grew up with hardcore punk, and it being a big part of my vinyl collection, I always hated the 7-inch. … Continue reading Crate Skimmers #35 The Big 7-inch Roundup, No.1

Owned since: 2008 Genre: Jazzy bossa nova indie pop Where I bought it: A one euro bin somewhere Year: 1984 Label/pressing: Blanco Y Negro It’s funny to look at some bands only in their mainstream or hit success. In this … Continue reading Crate Skimmers #34 Everything But The Girl – Eden