Fat Possum founder Matthew Johnson has partnered with Bruce Watson and AudioGraphics Masterworks owners Mark Yoshida and Brandon Seavers to open Memphis Record Pressing, a new vinyl pressing plant.

Construction on the plant began in March this year; its first release is a re-print of Youth Lagoon’s 2011 LP Year Of Hibernation. Future releases include The Districts’ debut album, A Flourish And A Spoil, due out February 10, and Leeds punk band Fat White Family.

Speaking to Billboard, Johnson lamented the state ...