Tin Angel Records

Tin Angel Records

Founded	2007
Founder	Richard Guy
Country of origin	UK
Location	Coventry, United Kingdom
Official website	tinangelrecords.co.uk

Tin Angel Records is a British independent record label based in Coventry, United Kingdom.

History

Tin Angel Records was founded by Richard Guy, owner of The Tin Angel café and live music venue based in Coventry, and launched in 2007 with Devon Sproule's Keep Your Silver Shined. The album received critical acclaim and led to Sproule appearing live on Later... with Jools Holland.^[1] Other notable records for the label in 2007 were by Paul Curreri and Adrian Crowley, with Crowley's album Long Distance Swimmer receiving a nomination for the 2007 Choice Music Prize.^[2] In 2008, Tin Angel released the self-titled album by Polar Bear, the follow-up to their Mercury Music Prize-nominated Held On The Tips Of Fingers. The label has since released records by the likes of Baby Dee, Charlie Parr and Evening Hymns (whose album Spectral Dusk was longlisted for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize^[3]) and branched into book publishing in 2012 with the release of Little Annie's autobiography You Can't Sing The Blues While Drinking Milk.^[4] Tin Angel hosted a showcase at North by Northeast 2013 in Toronto.^[5]

Current roster

Baby Dee
Batsch
Brasstronaut
Charlie Parr
Devon Sproule
Doug Tielli
Ed Askew
Evening Hymns
Larsen
Little Annie
Marker Starling
Opal Onyx
Paul Curreri
Ryan Driver
Tom Brosseau
Two Wings

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References

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