About Us

The PhonoVault is an online bazaar of the bizarre, a veritable treasure trove of all things unusual, intriguing, dark, and downright absurd in the world of music. A workshop of weird and wonderful delights thriving deep in the shadow of everything modernist and mainstream, and a sanctuary for those with a nostalgia for an age that never was, but should have been.

The PhonoVault is a specialist online music retailer with a vaudevillian twist. Our main aim is to help you, our fellow connoisseurs of the curious and countercultural, to find the music you desperately need in your lives, whilst removing the hassle of trawling through the catalogues of larger, less specialised music stores. If you share our admirably skewed worldview, we want to share a whole miscellany of musical gems with you. The central ethos of the PhonoVault is simple; to gather together music that harks back to a golden era, music that entices, excites and intrigues those looking for an antidote to slick, modern, mainstream fare.

The store mines deep into a rich and diverse seam of genres and styles, including Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Gypsy/klezmer music, Victoriana, folk, blues, burlesque, dark cabaret, gothic Americana, darkwave, Neo-Vaudeville, death country, and all sorts of sounds from the more eccentric side of life. Within the vault you will find albums to purchase on CD or download. Also, if you register with the PhonoVault, you will receive a free song download every week with our regular newsletter, helping you discover even more fantastic new music.