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Monorail Music
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Glasgow-based independent record shop.

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A reminder that we sell gift vouchers (with free shipping!) if you're still looking to treat the record lover in your life this Christmas...

please note, these can be spent in our physical Glasgow shop only: monorailmusic.com/product/mono...
December 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Monorail's Twenty for Twenty Five Part ONE is here.

OUT OF SEASON... but which Season?

Our first 10 albums of the year: monorailmusic.com/monorail-twe...
December 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Just Announced..

PROSTITUTE
Attempted Martyr
*Official Version*

Dinked
Lebanese sunburst vinyl
Alt gatefold sleeve (Arabic Edition) with gold foil
8 pg A5 PROSTITUTE manifesto
No'd + Ltd

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@dinkededition
December 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Truly delighted to be one of the chosen record shops stocking this brand new MEMORIALS 7". Signed, numbered and hand stamped. Two new songs! We love it.

Cut Glass Hammer / Reasonably Invisible: monorailmusic.com/product/cut-glass-hammer-reasonably-invisible
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Monorail turns 23 years old today. Thanks to all our customers here in Glasgow and across the world - we're honoured to still be your record store of choice.

Love and gratitude from Stephen, Dep, MK, Russell, Lauren, Emily, Mark, Laura and Lizzie.
December 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
You won't mind if we leak an entry for one our albums of the year 2025?

We like to include one heavy / metal one every year and this one is just... wow...

HELL
Submersus
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One for the DOOM / Sunn O))) / lurchin' funeral metal heads

MK
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Back in stock, one of the books of the year:

BUDGIE
The Absence - Memoirs Of A Banshee Drummer

SIGNED edition here: monorailmusic.com/product/the-...
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This is the other LP that I can't stop thinking about...

FRANCE
DESTINO SCIFOSI
(Standard In-Fi)

Wow... 1 for the Water Damage / Tony Conrad / Faust heads, part of a scene of French musicians making mind-erasing dronecstasy. Drums, bass and hurdy bloody gurdy

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MK
November 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Lauren and I grooving to the greatest Pop record of the 21st Century right now...

CARLY RAE JEPSEN
E*MO*TION
10th Anniversary Reissue incoming:

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Gonna follow this post with another record that's floating my boat that's completely different. Stay tuned

MK
November 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
First time repressing of A Los Campesinos! Christmas on green vinyl and CD.

Our copies come with an exclusive personalised Christmas card made out especially to you (or yr loved one, leave us a note) - monorailmusic.com/product/a-lo...

Card artwork by Rob Taylor of the group!
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
extremely limited restock of this beauty...

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November 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Top tip...

WED 26TH AT MONO! Soup Activists make jangled up and hook-laden group from the mind of Martin Meyer (Lumpy & The Dumpers) reconstituting the 80s indie scene. Plus Class, The Burgers and Dancer. A great night out.

tickets here: www.citizenticket.com/events/mono/...
November 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Here's a surprise...

Basic Strategies For Going Out is a double whammy of Peel sessions recorded by Huggy Bear in 1992/93.

Monorail/Rough Trade exclusive black vinyl with cassette tape. Ferocious, essential work: monorailmusic.com/product/basi...
November 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Steve Mason
The Romance Of Unknowing

Signed LTD DBL Colour 2LP

Beta Band's mucker takes us on a journey through Northern Soul, Punk, Folk, Hip-Hop, Soul and Post-Punk, spanning tracks from 1965 to 2005 - a celebration of Dunfermline club The Kronk.

Read more: monorailmusic.com/product/stev...
November 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Psst...

Louder Than You Think: A Lo-Fi History Of Gary Young and Pavement.

A journey through the musical life of Gary Young, the subject of the SXSW-winning documentary Louder Than You Think.

CD, black or pink vinyl: monorailmusic.com/product/loud...

#LaurenAndDepsBigPick
November 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Talk Talk's 1988 classic Spirt Of Eden, cut at half-speed for the first time at Metropolis Studios. Beyond excited about this.

Black vinyl with obi strip: monorailmusic.com/product/spir...
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
We’re very proud to have been chosen as the main retail partner for 3 stellar Edwyn Collins reissues, Hellbent On Compromise, I’m Not Following You and Doctor Syntax. There's also an Edwyn designed Postcard poster and plenty OJ.

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@thepastels.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
new zine alert! From the mind behind These Things Happen: The Sarah Records Story, comes Zine Things Happen.

40-page, full-colour fanzine, feat brand new interviews/features with/about musicians such as Beth Arzy, Swansea Sound, Blueboy, Silkworm and more.

Here: monorailmusic.com/product/zine...
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Here's Our Dog Of The Day. Leia is a post punk pop princess. Photo by @astrowolf81.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Our album of the month is Hydroplane's magical A Place In My Memory Is All I Have To Claim. We will have a few copies of our screenprinted cover edition back in next week. These won't last long, so best order now if you want one... monorailmusic.com/product/a-pl...
November 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
*Monorail Exclusive Screenprinted sleeve and Riso insert*

Hydroplane
A Place In My Memory Is All I Have To Claim

First new music from OG Australian dreamers in decades.

LTD 50 copies

One of the most beautiful records we've heard this year.

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November 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The Glasgow School No.08...

Under The Plow by Hairband joins the class.

First time on vinyl for one of our favourite Glasgow records of the 21st century. Remastered with a bunch of extras, including a BBC Sessions CD and temporary tattoo.

Pre-order and read here: monorailmusic.com/product/unde...
November 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
4/11/25
November 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
instant monorail classic!

Waxahatchee and her sis Allison team up with MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook to make your fav new band, Snocaps. Big day for the P.S. Eliot fans here. Physicals out in April.

Indies blue, black vinyl and CD: monorailmusic.com/product/snoc...
October 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Helicon x Al Lover
Arise

Retail Exclusive: Deluxe clear gatefold vinyl, hand-numbered and signed by the Helicon.

Glasgow cosmonauts join forces with L.A. producer Al Lover for a warped, psychedelic call to arms against rising enshitification:

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October 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM