
If you have a turntable in your house, you know that feeling that crinkles gently at the nape of your neck when the needle first touches down on the vinyl. It might be the sweetest sound in the world - a pop and gentle crackle and then the music comes in.
Mitchel Eaton remembers hearing his own songs coming in over that crackle for the first time after his band, The Howling Rats, made a pressing almost a year ago. It was like some kind of sorcery.