Rough Trade Shops Recorded At The Automat The Best Of Rough Trade Records

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Rough Trade Shops are set to release The Best Of Rough Trade Records, a wide ranging and authoritative collection from the last forty years of one of the most important and influential indie labels of all time.

The album will cover the early years, when Geoff Travis first started the label in West London in 1978 (later to be joined by Jeannette Lee) and includes the likes of Swell Maps, The Fall, The Raincoats and, of course, The Smiths, via the rebirth of the label in early 2001 with tracks from The Strokes, The Libertines, Arcade Fire and Sufjan Stevens, along with selections from the current roster including Warpaint and Micachu.

This is the first time Rough Trade Records have released such an extensive selection from their catalogue, with tracks selected by the labels Geoff Travis and Jeannette Lee and Rough Trade Shops Nigel House, Pete Donne, Sean Forbes and Simon Russell.