It was like turning the clock back to the previous century, but from the newest mall in town. Last afternoon, we paid a visit to the outlet that The Revolver Club (TRC) has launched at Jio World Drive, the recently opened high-end shopping destination at BKC. The records store based originally out of Mahim has brought back the concept of listening stations at music shops in the city, last seen at Rhythm House in Kalaghoda before that iconic space shuttered nearly six years ago. Readers of a certain vintage might also remember the listening booths at such erstwhile franchises as Planet M and Music World. But those worked on compact discs, before the digital age rendered CDs a relic from a bygone era. Here, at TRC, the two listening booths consist of turntables that play LPs, in keeping with the ethos of the brand.

We picked Michael Jackson’s Thriller from options that ranged from The Beatles’s Abbey Road to the Kati Patang soundtrack. A helpful attendant started the record for us, and the familiar scratching sound of LPs as the dial dropped brought about a wave of nostalgia. Then, the introductory bass line in Wanna be startin’ something kicked in to start a party in our ears, even as we sat on a white stool next to the turntable that’s sterilised at 9 am every morning according to the mall’s pandemic regulations, and for a while, we were lost to the rest of the world.