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THE VILLAGE VOICE: “Finlay’s handheld style is as casually intimate as her subjects, and the film stirringly posits music as a path to communal bliss.”

September 14th, 2011  |  Published in Reviews

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There’s No App for That: Life at the Record Store in Sound It Out

Sound It Out
A nonfiction love letter to independent businesses, unruly rock riffs, and the scratchy pleasures of rare LPs, Sound It Out celebrates vinyl and the shrinking number of shops that still sell it via the tale of the titular North East England retailer. Jeanie Finlay’s unassuming cutaways to smoky refineries and everything-must-go windows convey the economic hardship that threatens, but has yet to topple, Sound It Out, a cramped two-aisle haven for those who still adore the archaic medium and hard-to-procure finds.
Finlay focuses not just on affable proprietor Tom and his DJ sidekick David but also on their outcast single male customers—including a Status Quo fanatic with cerebral palsy, a suicidal metalhead, and a lonely auditor—for whom the establishment provides unique goods as well as escape from day-to-day drudgery and kinship with like-minded souls. Finlay’s handheld style is as casually intimate as her subjects, and the film stirringly posits music as a path to communal bliss.

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Synopsis

Glimmer Films in association with Sideshow present a film by Jeanie Finlay; SOUND IT OUT.

Over the last five years an independent record shop has closed in the UK every three days.

SOUND IT OUT is a documentary portrait of the very last surviving vinyl record shop in Teesside, North East England.

A cultural haven in one of the most deprived areas in the UK, SOUND IT OUT documents a place that is thriving against the odds and the local community that keeps it alive. Directed by Jeanie Finlay who grew up three miles from the shop.

A distinctive, funny and intimate film about men, the North and the irreplaceable role music plays in our lives.

High Fidelity with a Northern Accent.


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