Unusual vinyl designs: seven records with unconventional looks

This introduction previews seven vinyl records with unconventional designs that the article will feature, grouped under the theme of unusual vinyl designs. Among the examples reported is Charli XCX’s limited-edition remix album brat, produced in collaboration with Bad World and described as containing a white powder that was later said to be salt. Chappell Roan’s single The Subway was pressed in roughly 7,000 copies, some of which reportedly include waves embedded in the vinyl’s walls. Breakbot’s 2012 release By Your Side was issued as a chocolate disc on Ed Banger Records, accompanied by advice to keep the disc in a cold room to prevent melting and a joking reference to Auguste Gloop. The article notes a broader trend of inserting atypical contents into vinyl records as part of promotional strategies.

Charli XCX and Bad World collaboration on brat vinyl

Charli XCX collaborated with Bad World on a limited-edition vinyl release for her remix album brat. The record was described as containing a white powder inside the packaging, a substance that was later said to be salt. The release was presented as a distinctive physical design element tied to the project. The available sources do not provide details on the quantity of copies produced or the exact packaging method.

Descriptions and comments accompanying the release included the phrase “the excesses of a party girl who couldn’t care less” and the line “it’s just salt… wink, wink”. These quotes were presented without further attribution in the available reporting. The available sources do not provide information on who made the quoted statements.

Chappell Roan — The Subway vinyl

Chappell Roan’s single The Subway was issued in a limited run of about 7,000 copies, according to the reporting. Some of those pressings reportedly include waves embedded in the vinyl’s walls, presented as a design novelty.

The article presented those details as part of a wider look at unusual vinyl designs and noted the number of copies alongside the embedded-wave feature. The reporting also included the phrase “it’s completely different” in connection with the examples discussed. The available sources do not provide additional technical specifications, production methods, or attribution for the quoted phrase.

Breakbot — By Your Side (chocolate disc)

Breakbot’s 2012 release By Your Side was issued as a chocolate-disc vinyl and was released under Ed Banger Records. The reporting advised collectors to keep the disc in a cold room to avoid melting and included a joking reference phrased as “keep the disc in a cold room or else you’ll end up looking like Auguste Gloop.”

The article presented the chocolate disc as an example of a distinctive physical novelty within a wider trend noted in the piece, described as “the trend is to put increasingly strange things into our vinyls.” The available sources do not provide this information. The reporting does not specify the manufacturing process, the exact composition beyond the chocolate-disc description, the number of copies produced, or the disc’s playback durability and shelf life.

The reporting highlights a broader trend in which artists and labels include unusual contents or physical novelties in vinyl records as part of promotional strategies. The piece explicitly characterises this development with the quoted remark “the trend is to put increasingly strange things into our vinyls,” presented as commentary on recent releases.

Additional commentary in the reporting described some of the examples as “it’s completely different,” reflecting the source’s framing of these objects as departures from standard vinyl production. The available sources do not provide quantitative data, industry-wide analysis, or attribution for who made the quoted statements.

CONCLUSION

The article assembled a selection of releases that use nonstandard materials or embedded elements and presented them as examples of a recent promotional pattern within music physical releases. Reporting includes descriptions of project-specific design choices and records the remark “the trend is to put increasingly strange things into our vinyls” as an expression of that pattern.

Most items in the piece were described without extensive technical or production details, and the reporting does not provide industry-wide statistics or manufacturing explanations for the examples included. Taken together, these examples are presented in the source as instances of unusual vinyl designs used in recent releases to create distinct physical editions.

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