We’ve got an old 1950s radiogram that’s got such a warm, beautiful sound.

There’s something beautiful about listening to something from beginning to end as it was written on vinyl. “But I found I never listened to whole albums. “At first, to have this insane library of music at my hands was amazing,” she says.

Briony Bacon, 38, explains why she has turned away from streaming. My first shift is a Sunday and although I’m not run off my feet, I have a steady stream of customers. “But we’ve got Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran selling masses of vinyl and we still get lots of kids coming in after school going: ‘Have you got the new one by Arctic Monkeys?’” “It is different and you don’t always get that vibe,” says Jumbo’s Nick Fraser, a genial, enthusiastic 59-year-old who owns the store with his wife Justinia Lewis. Eleven are in the Leeds area, although customers aren’t often four deep at the counter. There are 426 independent record stores in the UK compared with a record low of 293 in 2012. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardianĭespite challenges such as the convenience of Amazon and streaming and an often gloomy narrative around bricks-and-mortar shops, vinyl is selling more now than it has since 1990. A bold literary act of decolonization and resistance, Noopiming offers a breaking open of the self to a world alive with people, animals, ancestors, and spirits-and the daily work of healing.School of rack … Simpson’s co-workers Jack and Aidan. The novel's characters emerge from deep within Abinhinaabeg thought to commune beyond an unnatural urban-settler world littered with SpongeBob Band-Aids, Ziploc baggies, and Fjällräven Kånken backpacks. Noopiming (Anishinaabemowin for 'in the bush') enacts these ideas. Simpson's book As We Have Always Done argued for the central place of storytelling in imagining radical futures. They introduce the seven characters: Akiwenzii, the old man who represents the narrator's will Ninaatig, the maple tree who represents their lungs Mindimooyenh, the old woman, their conscience Sabe, a gentle giant, their marrow Adik, the caribou, their nervous system and Asin and Lucy, the humans who represent their eyes, ears, and brain. Mashkawaji (they/them) lies frozen in the ice, remembering the sharpness of unmuted feeling from long ago, finding freedom and solace in isolated suspension. In fierce prose and poetic fragments, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Noopiming braids together humor, piercing detail, and a deep, abiding commitment to Anishinaabe life to tell stories of resistance, love, and joy. The new novel from the author of As We Have Always Done, a poetic world-building journey into the power of Anishinaabe life and traditions amid colonialism

Simpson as we have always done