This is Spin Audio Club
Every song ever made sits in your pocket, and most of it just plays behind everything else. On while you work. On while you scroll. Static.
But a record you actually sit with does something nothing else does. The album that becomes yours. The band becomes yours. The songs anchored to people, places, nights.
Spin Audio Club is here to help you fall back in love with listening. Vinyl, original artwork, and writing about music that gets under your skin.
Music gives us moments we never forget. Spin exists to make more of them.
Free quarterly, zero strings attached.
Start here, and start for free. ndl is the heart of Spin Audio Club - proper long reads on the albums, the artists, and the sleeves that changed everything, wrapped in original illustration you won't find anywhere else, because it's all drawn by hand.
The debut issue is yours for nothing. Tell us where to send it. Free is hard work, as I've found out — but here we are. There's a donate button if it moves you. No pressure.
Win the Stone Roses vinyl
Free to enter. Already entered if you've downloaded ndl.
Every issue of ndl comes with a prize attached. Right now, it's The Stone Roses' debut album on vinyl — one of the records this whole thing was built to celebrate.
Give us your email to download issue 001 and you're in. No extra step, no purchase, nothing else to do. Winner picked at random, one week before Issue 002 lands.
UK residents, 18+. Full terms here.
Icons - only the
ones That earned it
Original hand-drawn lyric portraits.
You can always tell when an artist's been drawn by someone who doesn't care. It's flat. The hand moved but nothing else did.
So I only draw the ones that mean something. Bowie. Cash. The artists who changed what was possible — drawn in Procreate, their own lyrics worked into every line. If the music doesn't move me, I don't pick up the pen.
Bowie's live now A3, limited to 45. Thom Yorke's up next, and yes, it'll be worth the wait.
Spin Sundays
One album. No skipping. No second screen.
Every week I sit with one record and film it — the album playing, the band, the story, me talking over the top about why it matters.
No reviews, no scores, no top-ten nonsense. Just one album at a time, given the attention it earned. The way someone meant it to be heard when they sequenced it.
Started on Instagram. Lives here now.
Judged by the cover
You decided something about a record before you'd heard a note of it. From the sleeve. From twelve inches of cardboard under your arm on the walk home.
Cover Stories is about the artwork that did the talking. The designers who turned a record into an object you wanted to be seen holding. Starting with New Order's Blue Monday — a sleeve so good Factory lost money on every single copy, and pressed it anyway.