Horror of the Hexham Heads LP van The Night Monitor

The gatefold art alone is worth the price—those carved stone heads look properly eerie under the sleeve’s matte finish. Side A’s haunted folk drones build so slowly that by the time the tape hiss creeps in, I’d forgotten I was spinning vinyl at all.

The pressing is dead silent between tracks, which really lets the eerie atmosphere of the Hexham story breathe. I’ve spun it three times already and the low-end rumble on the B-side still gives me chills.

The sleeve art alone—those two carved stone heads staring out from the garden—sets the tone before the needle even drops. I’ve spun it three times this week and the eerie folk instrumentation on side B still gives me chills. For a pressing tied to a 1971 Northumberland mystery, the packaging feels p