New Album Releases & Arrivals November 13, 2026
This is a reissue week for the ages. Aphex Twin's Drukqs turns twenty-five and puts every one of his albums back in print at once, Talking Heads' Fear of Music gets the 2026 remaster treatment with a full disc of outtakes, Michael Jackson's final album returns for its own anniversary, and Danny Brown's Atrocity Exhibition hits ten looking exactly as feral as the day it landed.
The crates run deep behind the headliners: a three-album OutKast wall on UK-import color vinyl, the Misfits' comeback record remastered, the Clash sampler that radio stations got in 1982 and nobody else ever did, and a two-piece Big Crown Records tenth-anniversary celebration with a DJ KOCO cassette mix and a Wax Poetics zine. The hip-hop racks are going to be busy.
Everything below lands Friday, November 13 or is already in the bins. Browse the full list: New Album Releases November 13, 2026.
Aphex Twin - Drukqs (25th Anniversary)
The Aphex Twin album that refuses to pick a lane, which is the whole appeal. Drukqs, from 2001, swings between skittering, impossible drill and bass workouts and solo prepared-piano pieces so still they could pass for Satie: "Vordhosbn" and "Cock/Ver10" tear the room apart, "Avril 14th" puts it quietly back together. Twenty-five years on, Warp's reissue means every Aphex Twin album is in print on vinyl again. A 4LP gatefold set or CD, out this Friday.
Why it's worth purchasing:
- Chaos and tenderness on the same tracklist
- Avril 14th is the prettiest thing he ever wrote
- 4LP gatefold or CD, and the catalog is whole again
Bigxthaplug - Better Over Time
Bigxthaplug spent the last two years proving a Dallas rapper could carry country radio and rap radio in the same week, and Better Over Time is where he stops treating that as a novelty. Eighteen tracks lean on the thing that got him here: a low, unbothered drawl that sits behind the beat and dares you to rush it. The title is a thesis about patience, and the sequencing backs it, building from street records into wide-open hooks. Indie exclusive blue vinyl.
Why it's worth purchasing:
- The Dallas drawl that conquered two radio formats
- Eighteen tracks sequenced like an argument
- Blue vinyl, indie shops only
Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition (10 Year Anniversary Edition)
Ten years old and still sounding like nothing else in rap. Atrocity Exhibition runs Danny Brown's wild, elastic delivery over Paul White's warped, post-punk-leaning production, with Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul and Earl Sweatshirt trading verses on "Really Doe". The anniversary edition gets new alternate artwork from original sleeve designer Ed Davis, silver mirriboard packaging, printed inners and an 8-page booklet across two transparent blue records. A one-time pressing, out Friday.
Why it's worth purchasing:
- Rap's strangest masterpiece at ten
- New artwork by the original sleeve designer
- One-time pressing on transparent blue
DJ KOCO aka Shimokita - BCR10-45: 10 Years of Big Crown 45s Cassette
Big Crown turned ten and handed its whole 45 catalog to DJ KOCO aka Shimokita, the Japanese DJ famous for sets built entirely from 7-inch singles. Across roughly seventy minutes, BCR10-45 threads a decade of the label's soul, funk and hip-hop sevens into one continuous mix, with cover art by J Bonner. A limited cassette made for Big Crown Day, perfect for the car or a Sunday kitchen.
Why it's worth purchasing:
- A master of the 45 working a decade of them
- Seventy minutes of continuous Big Crown soul
- Limited anniversary cassette
Michael Andrews - Donnie Darko (Original Motion Picture Score)
Michael Andrews scored Donnie Darko playing nearly everything himself: piano, mellotron, marimba, ukulele, organ. Richard Kelly asked for no guitar and no drums, which turns out to be the whole trick. The cues on the Donnie Darko score are small and circular, suspended rather than driven: suburban, slightly wrong, more sad than frightening. It closes with "Mad World", the Tears for Fears cover Andrews cut with Gary Jules that escaped the film entirely. 180g in a gatefold on Everloving.
Why it's worth purchasing:
- The cult-film score, no guitars, no drums, all mood
- Mad World still stops a room
- 180g gatefold pressing
Michael Jackson - Invincible
The tenth and final Michael Jackson studio album, built in 2001 with Rodney Jerkins and Teddy Riley. Invincible pairs hard, stuttering grooves on "Unbreakable" and "You Rock My World" with his most tender late ballads: "Butterflies", co-written by Floetry's Marsha Ambrosius, and "Speechless", which Jackson wrote alone. The 25th anniversary reissue spreads the full album across two LPs, on standard black or stone grey marble. Out Friday.
Why it's worth purchasing:
- The final chapter, due a fresh listen at 25
- You Rock My World and Butterflies still glide
- Standard black or stone grey marble 2LP
Misfits - American Psycho
The 1997 album that brought the Misfits back from the grave. Jerry Only and Doyle rebuilt the horror punk institution with singer Michale Graves and Dr. Chud on drums, and the new blood gave American Psycho a sharper, more melodic bite: "Dig Up Her Bones" became a modern Misfits standard. Remastered by Levi Seitz from the original analog masters, with bonus track "Dead Kings Rise" and the hidden cut "Hell Night", on orange, red and black tri-color vinyl in a gatefold. Out Friday.
Why it's worth purchasing:
- The Graves-era rebirth, remastered from analog
- Dig Up Her Bones earns its standard status
- Tri-color pressing in a gatefold jacket
Myron & E - Broadway
Myron Glasper and Eric "E da Boss" Cooke met on the road with Blackalicious, then cut Broadway with Helsinki's Soul Investigators, the band behind Nicole Willis. The result is sweet, unhurried 1970s soul with no winking: "Turn Back" and "Cold Game" sound pulled off a dusty Bay Area 45 rather than recorded in 2013. Stones Throw brings it back for their 30th anniversary on solid gold vinyl, the first color pressing, in a chipboard jacket with revised artwork. Out Friday.
Why it's worth purchasing:
- Modern soul that fools the dusty-45 test
- The Soul Investigators are airtight
- First-ever color pressing, solid gold
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
Daniel Lopatin's first album for Warp traded analog drift for something brighter and more disorienting: sampled choral voices, MIDI woodwinds and organ patches cut together with the logic of a half-remembered menu screen. R Plus Seven is where Oneohtrix Point Never stopped sounding like ambient music and started sounding like a building you walk through. Back in the racks across two 140g LPs in a gatefold sleeve.
Why it's worth purchasing:
- The pivot record of 2010s electronic music
- Chrome Country is a secular hymn
- 2LP 140g gatefold on Warp
OutKast - Aquemini (Import)
The third OutKast album is where the duo stopped choosing between rap record and band record and simply made both. On Aquemini, 1970s funk, southern soul, gospel, country and psychedelic rock all turn up without the seams showing: "Rosa Parks", "SpottieOttieDopaliscious" and "Da Art of Storytellin'" sit alongside "Synthesizer", where George Clinton sounds entirely at home. Two writers realizing the form would stretch as far as they cared to take it. UK pressing on two pink splatter discs.
Why it's worth purchasing:
- The consensus peak of the Atlanta catalog
- SpottieOttieDopaliscious alone justifies side C
- Pink splatter 2LP, UK import
OutKast - ATLiens (Import)
The second OutKast album pulled the group out of the party and into orbit. ATLiens is cooler, stranger and more interior than the debut, with dub space and gospel undertow running beneath "Elevators (Me & You)", "Wheelz of Steel" and the title track, and Andre's writing turning inward in a way that set up everything after it. Organized Noize handled roughly two thirds; the duo and Mr. DJ took the rest as Earthtone III. UK pressing on two marbled emerald green discs.
Why it's worth purchasing:
- The moment OutKast left the atmosphere
- Elevators remains the blueprint for Atlanta cool
- Marbled emerald green 2LP, UK import
OutKast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (Import)
The 1994 debut that made the case for Atlanta as a rap city in its own right. Organized Noize produced every track of Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik with live players rather than loops, "Player's Ball" and "Git Up, Git Out" carrying the singles, and Andre and Big Boi trading verses with an ease that would define them. Three decades on it still reads as the blueprint for what the South did next. UK pressing on two tangelo orange discs, completing this week's three-album OutKast wall.
Why it's worth purchasing:
- Where the South got something to say
- Live players give it a warmth loops never had
- Tangelo orange 2LP, UK import
Prodigy, The - Their Law: The Singles 1990-2005
The singles that made The Prodigy inescapable, in one sequence: the rave-era rush of "Charly" and "Out of Space" through the harder turn of "Firestarter" and "Breathe" to the Always Outnumbered material. Heard front to back, Their Law makes the arc obvious: Liam Howlett spent fifteen years dragging breakbeat hardcore toward something closer to a rock band, and the tracks got meaner as the tempos dropped. Pulled from all four XL albums, across two LPs.
Why it's worth purchasing:
- Fifteen years of dancefloor arson in order
- Firestarter and Breathe still hit like weather
- 2LP on XL Recordings
Ras G - Raw Fruit Vol. 7 & 8
Ras G left behind more music than he released, and the Raw Fruit series is how it keeps arriving. Volumes 7 & 8 collect beats built the way he always built them: dusty, off-grid, heavy on low end and space, samples left ragged rather than smoothed out. The Los Angeles beat scene he helped shape through Poo-Bah and the Leimert Park orbit is all over these tracks, and so is the Afrofuturist streak that ran through everything he touched. 2LP on yellowjacket fleck splatter, out Friday.
Why it's worth purchasing:
- The LA beat scene's spiritual center, still transmitting
- Raw by name and by design
- 2LP on yellowjacket fleck splatter
Talking Heads - Fear of Music (2026 Remaster)
Recorded in Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth's Long Island City loft, Fear of Music is where Talking Heads stopped being a nervy art-rock band and started being something stranger. Brian Eno pushed the group toward loops, layered percussion and treated guitar, from the Afrobeat churn of "I Zimbra" to the deadpan dread of "Life During Wartime". The 2026 remaster spreads the 1979 album across two 140g LPs with a second disc of outtakes and alternate versions. Out Friday.
Why it's worth purchasing:
- The Eno trilogy's tense, paranoid middle chapter
- A full disc of outtakes and alternates
- 2LP 140g, remastered for 2026
The Clash - The World According to The Clash
In 1982, just ahead of Combat Rock, Epic cut an eleven-track Clash sampler and shipped it to American radio stations. It was never sold, and it has circulated among collectors ever since. The World According to The Clash is its first proper release, newly remastered with artwork the band designed themselves: "Rock the Casbah", "London Calling", "Train in Vain", "The Guns of Brixton", with "The Magnificent Seven" added at Mick Jones' request. Limited orange 140g pressing, out Friday.
Why it's worth purchasing:
- A collector's ghost, finally a real record
- The band's own artwork, Mick Jones' own tracklist call
- Limited orange 140g pressing
Wax Poetics x Big Crown Records - The Big Crown Story (Zine + 7")
The other half of the Big Crown Day celebration: Wax Poetics traces the label's first decade in a zine of more than forty pages, built from a photo archive and interviews with founders Leon Michels and Danny Akalepse. Tucked inside is a 7-inch carrying two previously unreleased tracks: El Michels Affair's "Oh Medaase!" with Ahemaa Nwomkro, and Dave Guy's "Here Tomorrow, Gone Today". Pairs with the DJ KOCO cassette above and the BCR10 compilation from last month.
Why it's worth purchasing:
- Two unreleased Big Crown cuts on the 7-inch
- A real zine from the Wax Poetics archive
- The collector's piece of Big Crown Day
Back in the Racks
Fresh copies landing with Friday's drop, covered in full in recent posts and still very much worth your time.
Last Friday's Wall
The November 6 arrivals keep coming: the Spice Girls singles box on color 7-inches and CD, Ron Trent's Lift Off Part One and Part Two, all three Metro Area EPs on Environ, and Soichi Terada's Sounds From The Far East. The Japan wall holds with Hi-Phonic Big 15, Junk Fujiyama's Junk Scape, Miho Nakayama's Mind Game, the Techno Kayล comp and all three Lupin the Third soundtracks on color vinyl. So do Francis Bebey's Tresor Magnetique, Los Amigos Invisibles, the Menace II Society soundtrack, Evanescence's Open Door 20th on black and ivory, Venturing's Nowhere EP and Onda De Amor.
New Colors on Known Favorites
Ninajirachi's I Love My Computer adds an indie exclusive blue and white galaxy pressing, The Womack Sisters' debut arrives on opaque purple beside the standard black, and Michael Jackson's Thriller in red and black marble keeps the MJ shelf two deep while Invincible joins it above.
Returns & Deep Cuts
Common's Like Water for Chocolate and Onra's Chinoiseries hold the hip-hop crate, Patrice Rushen's Straight From the Heart brings "Forget Me Nots" back to the soul bin, Yaeji's With a Hammer and Robyn's Complete Body Talk cover the dancefloor, Scottish post-punks Boots For Dancing resurface, and The Music of Red Dead Redemption 2 rides once more.
That is the November 13 drop: four heavyweight anniversaries, an OutKast wall, a Clash record nobody has ever been able to buy, and Big Crown's birthday on the counter. Dig through the full November 13 collection before the weekend crowd does. Four or more new albums takes 10% off automatically at checkout. It's all in GOOD TASTE.
