Burnt Toast Vinyl is an independent record label based in

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History

Burnt Toast Vinyl was founded by Scott Hatch, a Drexel University student who had initially been involved with concert promotion at the school. The label has released full albums from several prominent Philadelphia indie musicians, as well as releasing or re-releasing material on vinyl from artists, including those on the Tooth & Nail roster. Among its reissues are the debut album from

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, re-released by Burnt Toast in 2015. Several of Burnt Toast's

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and

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groups attracted notice from magazines such as ''Dusted'' and ''Prefix''. Among the label's best-known releases are those by

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, Unwed Sailor, and Saxon Shore. Review of ''The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore''

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Roster

* All American Radio *

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* Bosque Brown * Byul.org * Circle of Birds * Early Day Miners * Efterklang *

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* Ester Drang *

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* Farquar Muckenfuss *

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* In a Lonely Place * Isolation Years * Jetenderpaul * June Panic *

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* The Magic Lantern *

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* Octane Blue * The Operation (formerly Sans Culottes) * Don Peris (of

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) *

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* Questions in Dialect * Ran Away to Sea * Reels of White Softly Flow * Saxon Shore *

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* Soporus *

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* Sufjan Stevens * The Trouble with Sweeney * Unwed Sailor *

* Woven Hand * Yndi Halda *

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