There’s an eye for detail at work in this narrow store. Jeff Knowlton and Laura Frederick, the husband-and-wife team behind Dandelion, share a background in design, and it shows. Up front are gift-primed items—handmade jewellery, oddball board games, macrame keychains, urban honey, Mexican chocolate—that would seem random if they didn’t have a certain sharp aesthetic in common. And the vinyl-only music selection that makes up the back two-thirds of the space is just as carefully curated. The wall displays, racks, and boxes neatly arranged on the wooden floor are wide-ranging and remarkably dud-free.

Whether you’re searching with purpose among Dandelion’s specialties (prog, psych, and krautrock, to name a few), or happy to let yourself run into the unexpected pleasure of a Bollywood disco collection or a global survey of folk-rock, you won’t need to hack through a lot of scabby old Doobie Brothers castoffs to come up with real gems. And if you’re unsure whether something in particular is for you, they’ll be glad to play it over the house system.