New Album Releases & Arrivals October 16, 2026

This Friday builds in walls. There is a Jay-Z wall: Reasonable Doubt at thirty, The Blueprint at twenty-five, and The Blueprint 3, all on color vinyl at the same time. There is a Rocktober wall: Joni Mitchell cut straight from the analog tape, Motorhead before anyone knew who Motorhead was, Phil Collins, Pretenders, ZZ Top and INXS in brick-and-mortar colors you will not find online anywhere else.

And there is a Japan wall that runs deeper than most shops' entire import section: five Studio Ghibli soundtracks from Joe Hisaishi, Masayoshi Takanaka live at Budokan in 1981, Tatsuro Yamashita, Kimiko Kasai, three Himiko Kikuchi reissues and both Samurai Champloo soundtracks. Out front, Fontaines D.C. and The Avalanches carry the new-release flag, with Bibio and Dorian Concept close behind.

Everything below arrives Friday, October 16 or is already in the racks. Browse the whole wall here: New Album Releases October 16, 2026.

Adam F - Colours Revisited (Red Color) Vinyl LP

Adam F spent two years rebuilding his 1997 drum and bass landmark Colours from the ground up, and Colours Revisited is the result: restored Rhodes, Julian Joseph back at the piano, Kirsty Hawkshaw re-recording her vocal, and the late MC Conrad's voice preserved where it belongs. Jungle-jazz with the dust blown off, spread across three red discs.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• A true rebuild of a 90s drum and bass cornerstone, not a quick remaster
• Circles and Metropolis in their richest-sounding versions yet
• Red 3LP pressing with room for the mixes to breathe

Adam F - Colours Revisited Vinyl LP

The standard pressing of Colours Revisited carries the same two-year rebuild: live players re-tracked, arrangements opened up, and the album's jazz heart pushed forward. If you only know Colours from scratched club copies, hearing Music In My Mind with a restored Rhodes is the argument for owning it again.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The definitive version of one of jungle's most musical albums
• Live re-recordings honor the late MC Conrad
• Standard black 3LP for the purists

Avalanches - No Bad Memories (180g Yellow Color) Vinyl LP

The Avalanches' fourth album is built from jingles, start-up chimes and brand logos, which is the most Avalanches idea imaginable. No Bad Memories runs 31 tracks with Jamie xx, Karen O, Panda Bear, Rivers Cuomo, Mike Patton, Carly Simon, Haruomi Hosono and Suzanne Ciani passing through. Lead single Can't Get Over Losing You, with Portraits of Tracy, sets the bittersweet tone. Out this Friday on 180g yellow vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• First Avalanches album in six years, six years in the making
• A guest list that runs from Carly Simon to Haruomi Hosono
• 180g yellow pressing suits the advertising-daydream concept

Avalanches - No Bad Memories (Indie Exclusive 180g Blue Color) Vinyl LP

The indie-shop pressing of No Bad Memories lands on 180g blue and carries Evergreen Altar, a collaboration with Vegyn that exists only on physical copies. For a group that made sampling feel like memory itself, an album about advertising's ghosts is the richest material they have touched since Since I Left You. Out this Friday.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Indie exclusive 180g blue, only at shops like this one
• Evergreen Altar with Vegyn is physical-only
• Their most conceptually loaded record since the debut

Bibio & Dorian Concept - Answers CD

Two of Warp's gentlest melodists finally made a record together. Answers grew out of a decade of friendship between Bibio and Dorian Concept, recorded remotely between rural Wales and Austria, and it stays entirely instrumental: tape-warmed guitar on one side, liquid synth harmony on the other. Lead single Lichen Trip is exactly as mossy as the title promises. Out this Friday on CD.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Two distinctive Warp voices blending instead of competing
• Fully instrumental, perfect for work or wind-down
• The CD is the budget-friendly way into a headphone record

Bibio & Dorian Concept - Answers Vinyl LP

On wax, Answers comes with a concertina booklet that unfolds like the music does: slowly, in warm panels. Bibio's pastoral tape haze and Dorian Concept's jazz-schooled synth playing turn out to be the same language at different altitudes, and the whole record glows like late afternoon. Out this Friday.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Vinyl edition includes the concertina booklet
• Lichen Trip already sounds like a fall classic
• A grower that rewards full side-length listens

Cameron Winter - Live at Carnegie Hall (Indie Exclusive Deep Red Color) Vinyl LP

A kid from Geese alone at Carnegie Hall, and the room does half the work. Live at Carnegie Hall catches Cameron Winter's Heavy Metal songs stripped to piano and that improbable voice, every crack amplified by all that famous air. The deep red indie pressing is the one collectors will chase.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• One of the great voices of his generation, completely exposed
• Carnegie Hall's natural reverb is the second instrument
• Indie exclusive deep red pressing

Cameron Winter - Live at Carnegie Hall Vinyl LP

The standard edition of Live at Carnegie Hall documents a show people were talking about the next morning: Winter reworking his solo material in real time, holding silences longer than most singers would dare. Live albums rarely justify themselves anymore. This one does.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• A live record that is an actual performance, not a souvenir
• Reworked arrangements you will not hear on Heavy Metal
• Standard pressing at the friendlier price

Casiopea - Miracle Night Live Blu-Ray

Forty-five years in, Japan's definitive fusion band can still outplay everyone. Miracle Night Live captures the current lineup, with Jun Abe on keys, tearing through the TRUE BLUE show at Club Citta: Asayake, Domino Line, Galactic Funk and Looking Up all land, plus bonus footage. Note that this one is a Blu-ray, so it feeds the screen rather than the turntable.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Casiopea's signature songs played by the current, ferocious lineup
• Concert video, the right format for a band this fun to watch
• Bonus footage rounds out the night

Caspian - Caspian (self-titled) (Indie Exclusive Peach Color) Vinyl LP

Beverly's own. Caspian have been building oceanic post-rock a half hour up Route 1A from this shop for two decades, and their self-titled album is their first in six years: six tracks across 39 minutes, produced by Brett Romnes, anchored by the nine-plus-minute Remain and closed by Waltz for the End. Out this Friday on indie exclusive peach vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• North Shore post-rock heroes, first album in six years
• Remain is the kind of slow-build epic they are famous for
• Indie exclusive peach pressing supports the home team

Fat Jon & Nujabes - Samurai Champloo Music Record: Departure (Original Soundtrack) (Japan Import) CD

The soundtrack that taught a generation what lofi hip-hop was before the word existed. Departure splits 17 tracks between Fat Jon and Nujabes, opening with Battlecry featuring Shing02 and floating through Aruarian Dance before MINMI's Shiki no Uta closes the circle. A Japan import CD of anime-jazz scripture.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Battlecry and Aruarian Dance on one disc
• Nujabes at the absolute peak of his beatmaking
• Japan import pressing of a modern classic score

Fontaines D.C. - Dopamine Chamber (Blue Color) Vinyl LP

The biggest rock band of the moment goes colder. Dopamine Chamber is Fontaines D.C.'s fifth album, produced by James Ford, trading Romance's technicolor for something more synthetic and more unsettling. Grian Chatten calls it "a room you step into," and lead single Marianne is the doorway: pleasure hunted down inside a collapsing world. Out this Friday on blue vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The follow-up to Romance, with James Ford producing
• Marianne is already in heavy rotation at the shop
• Blue pressing matches the album's cold glow

Fontaines D.C. - Dopamine Chamber (Indie Exclusive Blue Marble Color) Vinyl LP

The indie-shop variant of Dopamine Chamber swirls the cold blue into marble, and it will be the first of the four editions to leave the racks. Five albums in, Fontaines D.C. keep refusing to repeat themselves, and this one trades guitar heroics for atmosphere that gets under the skin. Out this Friday.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Indie exclusive blue marble, the collector's pick of the run
• A band at their commercial peak taking real risks
• First pressings of Fontaines variants do not linger

Fontaines D.C. - Dopamine Chamber CD

Dopamine Chamber on CD is the car-stereo and commute edition of the year's most anticipated rock record. The synthetic textures James Ford built into these songs translate cleanly to the format, and Marianne hits just as hard through factory speakers. Out this Friday.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The full album at the lowest price of entry
• Great-sounding digital master of a very produced record
• Fits the glovebox, survives the winter

Fontaines D.C. - Dopamine Chamber Vinyl LP

The standard black pressing of Dopamine Chamber is for the listener who cares about the songs more than the swirl. Chatten's writing here is his most interior yet, circling pleasure and dread in equal measure, and the band plays like a unit that knows exactly how big this moment is. Out this Friday.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The essential edition: just the album, loud
• Chatten's best lyric sheet to date
• Black vinyl usually outlasts the colorways on sound

Force of Nature, Nujabes, & Fat Jon - Samurai Champloo Music Record: Impression (Original Soundtrack) (Japan Import) CD

Departure's companion runs even deeper. Impression spreads 23 tracks across Force of Nature's opening stretch, a Nujabes middle section that includes some of his most loved beats, and MINMI's Who's Theme as the send-off. If Departure is the famous one, Impression is the one heads argue is better. Japan import CD.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• 23 tracks, the deepest cut of the Champloo catalog
• Who's Theme alone is worth the price
• Pairs with Departure for the complete picture

Four Tet - TEXT059 Vinyl LP

No announcement, no title, just a catalog number. TEXT059 is Kieran Hebden doing what he does on his own Text label: eight tracks, two of which previously existed only as digital files, pressed up and shipped out before the internet could finish speculating. Warm, rhythmic, quietly generous music from electronic music's most reliable hands.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Surprise Text Records drop, the way Four Tet likes it
• Two tracks make their physical debut here
• Label pressings like this rarely get repressed

Freddie McCoy - Spider Man (60th Anniversary Clear with Red & Blue Swirl Color) Vinyl LP

In 1966 vibraphonist Freddie McCoy cut Spider Man for Prestige, soul-jazz built around a theme for a Marvel tie-in series that never happened. Speak Out, Deagan! and Hav' Mercy swing hard enough that the comic-book hook becomes a footnote. First-ever vinyl reissue, all-analog, on clear wax swirled red and blue like the costume. Out this Friday.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• First vinyl reissue of a Prestige soul-jazz rarity, cut all-analog
• Vibraphone funk that DJs have sampled for decades
• The red and blue swirl is pure comic-shop joy

Freddie McCoy - Spider Man (60th Anniversary) Vinyl LP

The standard black edition of Spider Man gives you the same all-analog remaster of McCoy's 1966 Prestige date without the swirl. Sixty years on, this is still some of the grooviest vibraphone playing ever put to tape, the kind of record that gets passed around a listening session until somebody finally asks who it is. Out this Friday.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The same all-analog cut at the standard price
• A soul-jazz conversation starter few collections have
• Prestige-era rhythm sections never miss

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (2026 Analog Reissue) Vinyl LP

The story goes that George Clinton told Eddie Hazel to play like his mother had just died, and the ten minutes that followed became the title track of Maggot Brain. This 2026 reissue of the 1971 original is cut from analog, which is exactly how a guitar elegy this raw deserves to travel.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The greatest guitar performance in funk history, cut from analog
• Can You Get to That and Hit It and Quit It balance the grief with groove
• A cornerstone record every collection eventually needs

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (Armageddon Red Color) Vinyl LP

If the album is about the world ending, the pressing should look like it. Maggot Brain on Armageddon Red puts Funkadelic's 1971 masterpiece on wax the color of a burning sky: Hazel's apocalyptic opener, the gospel-funk of Can You Get to That, and Wars of Armageddon living up to the vinyl beneath it.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Armageddon Red pressing matches the album's end-times mood
• The P-Funk origin story in its heaviest chapter
• Looks as dramatic on the platter as it sounds

Golden Earring - Moontan (Signature Edition) Vinyl LP

Radar Love is the greatest driving song ever recorded, and Moontan is the 1973 album around it. This Signature Edition is the first-ever 45 RPM cut of the record, remastered from analog by Wouter Bessels, re-sequenced, and packaged with a 12-page booklet. Dutch hard rock given the audiophile treatment it never got the first time.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• First 45 RPM edition, cut for maximum headroom
• Analog remaster by Wouter Bessels with a 12-page booklet
• Radar Love at 45 RPM is a physical experience

Himiko Kikuchi - ALL Right (Transparent Green Color) Vinyl LP

Keyboardist Himiko Kikuchi flew to Los Angeles and cut ALL Right at Chick Corea's Mad Hatter Studios with Ernie Watts, John Robinson and Al Vizzutti in the room. The result is Japanese fusion with an American studio glow, back on transparent green vinyl for the City Pop on Vinyl 2026 program.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Recorded at Chick Corea's studio with LA's first-call players
• Smooth-burning fusion for the city pop shelf
• Transparent green pressing from City Pop on Vinyl 2026

Himiko Kikuchi - Don't Be Stupid (Transparent Yellow Color) Vinyl LP

Don't Be Stupid is where it started: Kikuchi's debut, with Ernie Watts already guesting, full of the bright keyboard writing that made her a quiet legend of the Japanese jazz-fusion boom. The title is a mood, the grooves are serious, and the transparent yellow pressing looks like bottled sunshine.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The debut that launched a fusion career worth exploring
• Ernie Watts guests on saxophone
• Transparent yellow vinyl, impossible to misfile

Himiko Kikuchi - Woman (Transparent Orange Color) Vinyl LP

Woman is the strangest and most charming of the three Kikuchi reissues landing this week: Fat Ma Cooking folds an actual hamburger recipe, narration and kitchen sounds into the funk. Nobody else was making fusion records this playful, and the transparent orange pressing completes the shelf's traffic-light trio.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Fat Ma Cooking is a hamburger recipe you can dance to
• The most personality-forward record of the Kikuchi three
• Collect all three transparent colors this week

Hiroshi Yoshimura - Surround Vinyl LP

In 1986, Hiroshi Yoshimura composed Surround as sound scenery for model homes: music meant to make empty rooms feel lived in. Four decades later it does the same for apartments, offices and late nights everywhere. Japanese environmental music at its most weightless, kept in print by Temporal Drift.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• A landmark of Japanese ambient, composed for architecture
• The rare background music that rewards foreground listening
• Pairs beautifully with this week's deep Japan wall

INXS - INXS (self-titled) (Rocktober 2026) (Sea Blue Color) Vinyl LP

Before the stadiums, INXS were a Sydney pub band with a ska itch. Their 1980 self-titled debut catches them hungry and scrappy, post-punk angles everywhere, Michael Hutchence's charisma already unmistakable. A Rocktober sea blue pressing, exclusive to brick-and-mortar shops, sitting in our racks right now.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The scrappy pub-band origin of a stadium giant
• Sea blue vinyl, brick-and-mortar exclusive
• Just Keep Walking still sounds like a dare

Jay Richford & Gary Stevan - Feelings Vinyl LP

Jay Richford and Gary Stevan never existed. Feelings is a 1974 Italian library record cut under pseudonyms by Stefano Torossi and Giancarlo Gazzani, and it plays like the score to the best cop show never filmed: wah guitar, swaggering strings, drums in a permanent car chase. One of the most wanted library grails, back via Be With.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The Italian library holy grail, finally affordable
• Cop-show funk that producers have mined for years
• Be With reissues are done right, from the tapes up

Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt (30th Anniversary) (White Color) Vinyl LP

Thirty years of the debut. Reasonable Doubt arrived in 1996 with DJ Premier, Ski and Clark Kent behind the boards, Can't Knock the Hustle and Dead Presidents II as thesis statements, and Brooklyn's Finest pairing Jay with Biggie on one track. The 30th anniversary white 2LP anchors this week's Jay-Z wall, the start of a whole hip-hop section worth digging.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The debut many still call his best writing
• Premier, Ski and Clark Kent production, all killer
• 30th anniversary white 2LP pressing

Jay-Z - The Blueprint (25th Anniversary Cobalt Blue Color) Vinyl LP

Made in roughly two weeks, built to last forever. The Blueprint turned 2001 soul samples into architecture, with a young Kanye West and Just Blaze flipping Bobby Bland, David Ruffin and The Doors underneath Takeover, Izzo, Song Cry and Heart of the City. Twenty-five years on, it gets the cobalt blue 2LP it deserves.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The soul-sample blueprint every rap producer still studies
• Takeover and Song Cry on one record
• 25th anniversary cobalt blue 2LP

Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3 (White Color) Vinyl LP

The Blueprint 3 completes the wall: Empire State of Mind with Alicia Keys, D.O.A. drawing a line in the sand, and Kanye, No I.D. and Timbaland sharing the boards while Rihanna, Kid Cudi, Drake and Pharrell pass through. The victory-lap Jay, pressed on white 2LP to match the debut beside it.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Empire State of Mind never stops filling rooms
• A guest list that doubles as a 2009 time capsule
• White 2LP completes the three-album wall display

Jill Scott - Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1 Vinyl LP

The question in the title was rhetorical by track three. Who Is Jill Scott? introduced a Philly poet who sang like the mic owed her money: A Long Walk, Gettin' in the Way, and a spoken-word backbone that made neo-soul feel brand new in 2000. Still the warmest record in any stack it joins.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• One of the defining neo-soul debuts, full stop
• A Long Walk is a permanent Sunday-morning record
• Poetry and groove in equal, generous measure

Joe Hisaishi - Howl's Moving Castle: Soundtrack (Remastered, Limited Edition) Vinyl LP

One waltz, endlessly transformed. Joe Hisaishi's score for Howl's Moving Castle builds everything from Merry-Go-Round of Life, returning grand, playful, wistful and finally triumphant, with Chieko Baisho singing the closer. The remastered edition makes its vinyl debut as a 2LP gatefold with an etched fourth side and OBI strip.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Merry-Go-Round of Life, the most beloved waltz in anime
• First time on vinyl, freshly remastered
• Gatefold 2LP with etched side and OBI strip

Joe Hisaishi - Kiki's Delivery Service: Soundtrack Music Collection (Remastered, Limited Edition) Vinyl LP

Hisaishi's most European score, all bright strings and seaside sway. The Kiki's Delivery Service Soundtrack Music Collection gathers 21 tracks including both Yumi Arai songs that bookend the film. Remastered, with new jacket artwork, an OBI strip and insert, making its vinyl debut.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• 21 tracks including both beloved Yumi Arai songs
• New remaster and new jacket art for the vinyl debut
• The sunniest entry point into the Ghibli shelf

Joe Hisaishi - My Neighbor Totoro: Soundtrack (Limited Edition) Vinyl LP

Childhood wonder, pressed. The My Neighbor Totoro soundtrack follows Satsuki and Mei through rice fields and rainstorms with playful marches, hushed forest cues and the two Azumi Inoue songs everyone knows by heart: Sanpo and the title theme. Liner notes, four pages of illustrations and an OBI strip included. For any age, every time.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Sanpo starts any day on the right foot
• Liner notes and illustrations make it a gift that lands
• The Catbus scene lives on side two

Joe Hisaishi - Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea: Soundtrack (Remastered, Limited Edition) Vinyl LP

Hisaishi's most openly joyful score. Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea sends the New Japan Philharmonic crashing through Wagnerian waves, borrows the sweep of the Valkyries for Ponyo's flight, and closes on Nozomi Ohashi's irresistible theme. The remastered vinyl debut spreads 36 tracks across a 2LP gatefold with an etched fourth side.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• A full orchestra having the time of its life
• 36 tracks, the most complete Ponyo on wax
• Gatefold 2LP with etched fourth side

Joe Hisaishi - Spirited Away: Image Album (Remastered, Limited Edition) Vinyl LP

Before the famous score existed, Miyazaki wrote Hisaishi poems. The Spirited Away Image Album is the music those notes inspired: ten tracks with vocals from U-MI, Sizzle Ohtaka, Tsunehiko Kamijo, Mosieur Kamayatsu and RIKKI. A remastered vinyl debut with OBI strip, and the deepest cut on this week's Ghibli wall.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The experimental sibling of a legendary score
• Vocal performances you will not find anywhere else
• The Ghibli pick for people who have everything else

Joni Mitchell - Blue (Rocktober 2026) (Rhino Hifi) Vinyl LP

Blue is the record people reach for when they need something to be honest with them: dulcimer, piano, guitar and a voice with no defenses left, recorded in 1971. A Case of You, River, All I Want. This Rhino High Fidelity edition is cut from the analog tape, and the difference is audible in the first thirty seconds. Out this Friday.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Rhino High Fidelity, cut straight from the analog tape
• The confessional songwriting standard, never bettered
• River arrives just in time for the cold months

Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark (Rocktober 2026) (Rhino Hifi) Vinyl LP

Where Joni stopped writing folk songs and started writing arrangements. Court and Spark, from 1974, folds Tom Scott's L.A. Express into pop built on unresolved chords and close harmony. Help Me and Free Man in Paris get the airplay; Down to You is where it goes deepest. Rhino High Fidelity, cut from the analog tape. Out this Friday.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Her jazz-pop high-water mark in audiophile form
• The L.A. Express plays like silk under every song
• Pairs with Blue for a two-album Joni masterclass

JPEGMAFIA - Experimental Rap (White Color) Vinyl LP

Peggy makes rap records the way a demolition crew makes doorways. This white vinyl edition collects the self-produced chaos that made JPEGMAFIA the standard-bearer for noise-flecked, soul-sampling, genre-allergic hip-hop. Abrasive one bar, gorgeous the next, and never once boring.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Self-produced from top to bottom, no committee involved
• The bridge between noise music and rap's cutting edge
• White vinyl pressing for the glitch aesthetic

JPEGMAFIA - Experimental Rap Vinyl LP

The standard edition of JPEGMAFIA's experimental rap on black wax. BABYGIRL showed the melodic side this year; the catalog behind it is scorched earth, soul loops detonated mid-sample, and some of the sharpest writing in left-field hip-hop. Start here and work outward.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• A gateway into rap's most restless catalog
• Production that rewires how you hear samples
• Black vinyl, standard price, maximum chaos

Kikagaku Moyo - Forest of Lost Children (Indie Exclusive) Vinyl LP

Tokyo's great psych export at their wildest. Forest of Lost Children, from 2014, swings between tenderness and explosion, sitar tangled in guitar feedback until the two become one instrument. The indie exclusive pressing of the album that put Kikagaku Moyo on every psych head's map.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Sitar-and-feedback psych with real dynamic range
• The breakout album of Japan's modern psych wave
• Indie exclusive pressing

Kikagaku Moyo - House In the Tall Grass Vinyl LP

House In the Tall Grass is the gentle one, and many fans' favorite: 2016's pastoral drift, where Green Sugar rolls like a slow river and Kogarashi might be the prettiest thing the band ever recorded. Psychedelia that invites you in rather than blasting you back.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Green Sugar is a desert-island psych track
• The band's most welcoming, melodic front door
• Sounds best with the windows open, any season

Kikagaku Moyo - Masana Temples Vinyl LP

Recorded in Lisbon with jazz producer Bruno Pernadas, Masana Temples is 2018's worldly, groove-forward chapter: Dripping Sun stretches out like highway heat, Nazo Nazo floats. The record where Kikagaku Moyo proved the psych tag was always too small for them.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Jazz-inflected production gives the jams real shape
• Dripping Sun alone justifies the sleeve
• Completes the three-album Kikagaku run in this week's wall

Kimiko Kasai with Kosuke Mine Quartet - Yellow Carcass In the Blue Vinyl LP

The only leader album Kimiko Kasai ever cut for Three Blind Mice, and a prized piece of 70s Japanese jazz. Yellow Carcass In the Blue pairs her voice with Kosuke Mine's burning saxophone over a quartet anchored by pianist Masabumi Kikuchi, who wrote the title track to Kasai's own lyrics. Essential for anyone digging through our jazz racks.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• A Three Blind Mice session, the gold standard of J-jazz labels
• Kosuke Mine's saxophone burns through the whole set
• The title track is a one-of-a-kind writer-singer pairing

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - From Demos to Demons Vinyl LP

Fourteen songs before the band decided what they were. From Demos to Demons pulls from the Demo Sessions volumes, catching Automation, Predator X, Hell, Evil Death Roll and Mars for the Rich in early mutation: fuzzed out, instrumental in places, still finding their final forms. The clearest look yet at how the Gizzard sausage gets made.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Hear beloved songs in their larval, heavier states
• Includes an insert and full-color art
• Catnip for completists of the most prolific band alive

Madonna - Erotica (Import White Color) Vinyl LP

The most misunderstood record in her catalog, and quietly one of the best. Erotica, from 1992, is Shep Pettibone's cold house and dub stretched under Madonna at her most daring: Deeper and Deeper and Fever for the floor, Rain and Bad Girl for the comedown, In This Life grieving friends lost to AIDS. Italian import, two 140g white discs.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• A house-and-dub album that was years ahead of its reviews
• In This Life is among her most affecting vocals
• Import-only white 2LP pressing

Masayoshi Takanaka - The Rainbow Goblins Story Live at Budokan 1981 (Color) Vinyl LP

Two nights at Budokan in March 1981: a rainbow neon arch over the stage, lasers, seven musicians dressed as goblins, and Takanaka in a yellow jumpsuit playing a rainbow Yamaha SG. The Rainbow Goblins Story Live at Budokan 1981 finally releases the full concert: the Rainbow Goblins album staged whole, then a hits set. Three LPs in clear lime yellow, red and blue, cut at Abbey Road by Alex Wharton, with a photo booklet.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The legendary Budokan show, complete for the first time
• 3LP in three clear colors, cut at Abbey Road
• Peak Takanaka showmanship, 45 years on

Masayoshi Takanaka - The Rainbow Goblins Story Live at Budokan 1981 CD

The same full Budokan concert in one tidy package. The CD edition carries the complete 1981 performance, from the staged Rainbow Goblins suite through the hit-parade second half, without the import 3LP price. The easiest way to live inside one of Japanese guitar music's most storied nights.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The complete concert at a friendlier price
• A perfect introduction to the Takanaka legend
• Pairs with the picture-book original album in our racks

Mato - Hollywoo Dub Vinyl LP

French producer Mato rebuilds twelve famous film themes in deep digital dub on Hollywoo Dub: Shaft and Coffy ride heavy bass and skank, Psycho becomes echo-chamber space, and the Imperial March lands with sound-system weight. The trick could be a gimmick; the craft makes it an album. On Stix.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Film themes you know, rebuilt rather than remixed
• Equal parts dub record and soundtrack record
• The Psycho rework has to be heard to be believed

Motorhead - On Parole (The Alternative Mixes) (Rocktober 2026) (Smokey Marble Color) Vinyl LP

The album United Artists recorded in 1975 and then sat on until Motorhead got famous without them. On Parole: The Alternative Mixes runs rawer and closer to the room than the 1979 release, with Lemmy and Larry Wallis sounding sloppier, more Hawkwind-adjacent, and completely certain. Smokey marble vinyl, brick-and-mortar exclusive, out this Friday.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The band before the legend, in rawer mixes
• A record-label cautionary tale you can actually play
• Smokey marble pressing, shops only

Norio Maeda - Shadow Of The Highway (Original Soundtrack) Vinyl LP

A Mitsubishi Galant GTO races from Kagoshima to Hokkaido, and Norio Maeda's band chases it the whole way. Shadow Of The Highway scores the 1971 road thriller, often compared to Vanishing Point, with dashing piano, racing vibraphone and a galloping rhythm section whose exact personnel remain a happy mystery. Japanese soundtrack jazz at full throttle.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• High-speed J-jazz for fans of rare groove and car chases
• The mystery-session intrigue is half the fun
• Sits perfectly between the Maeda and Richford grails this week

Phil Collins - Dance Into the Light (Rocktober 2026) (Translucent Orange & Blue Color) Vinyl LP

The first record Phil Collins made after leaving Genesis for good, and it sounds like someone enjoying the open road. Dance Into the Light, from 1996, leans into world rhythms and big open production, with It's In Your Eyes and a game reading of The Times They Are A-Changin' showing how wide he cast the net. Two discs, translucent orange and blue, out this Friday.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The sound of a clean slate, remarkably light on its feet
• Rocktober translucent orange and blue 2LP
• A sleeper in the catalog that rewards another listen

Pretenders - Get Close (Rocktober 2026) (White Color) Vinyl LP

By 1986 Chrissie Hynde had rebuilt the Pretenders around herself, and Get Close is the glossy, soul-inflected result: Don't Get Me Wrong bouncing on one of the decade's best pop hooks, Hymn to Her stopping rooms cold, and a voice that refuses to sound like anyone else. 40th anniversary white vinyl, out this Friday.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Don't Get Me Wrong, forever a mood-lifter
• Hynde's songwriting holding firm through a band rebuild
• 40th anniversary white pressing

Remi Wolf - Mud (Bubblegum Pink Color) Vinyl LP

Nobody crams more hooks per minute. Mud finds Remi Wolf channeling her funk-pop maximalism into songs with real bruises under the color, and Bottle is the proof: a chorus that parties while the lyric sheet worries. Bubblegum pink vinyl for an album that is anything but bubblegum.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Funk-pop with genuine emotional weight underneath
• Bottle belongs on every fall playlist
• Bubblegum pink pressing pops on the shelf

Remi Wolf - Mud (Indie Exclusive Metallic Smoke Alternate Cover) Vinyl LP

The indie edition of Mud swaps in an alternate cover on metallic smoke vinyl, the moodier face of the same ecstatic record. For the Remi devotee, the alternate art is the point; for everyone else, it is simply the version the big-box stores do not get.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Indie exclusive alternate cover art
• Metallic smoke vinyl suits the album's title
• The variant that will be hard to find in a year

Slayyyter - Starfucker (Deluxe Gold Color) Vinyl LP

Hollywood noir you can dance to. The deluxe edition of Starfucker expands Slayyyter's glitter-and-grime fantasy of fame with additional tracks, and the gold pressing is the correct costume for it: Miss Belladonna and the rest play like a starlet's diary read by flashlight.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The deluxe cut of a hyperpop noir favorite
• Gold vinyl, obviously
• Miss Belladonna earns its spot on this week's playlist

Slayyyter - Starfucker (Deluxe Indie Exclusive Red & Pink Color) Vinyl LP

The indie-shop take on Starfucker Deluxe runs red and pink, lipstick colors for a lipstick record. Same expanded tracklist, same after-dark glamour, exclusive to shops like this one.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Indie exclusive red and pink pressing
• The expanded deluxe tracklist
• Pop theatrics that commit to the bit completely

Tatsuro Yamashita - Artisan (Limited Edition 2025 Vinyl Edition) Vinyl LP

The title is a self-description. Artisan, Yamashita's tenth album from 1991, is built by hand the way only he builds records: Endless Game, Goodbye Summer Day and Atom no Ko layered and polished to a shine. Part of the 50th anniversary reissue run of his Moon-era albums, with liner notes by the man himself.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Moon-era Yamashita, the craftsman's craftsman
• Liner notes written by Yamashita himself
• City pop royalty for the Japan wall

The Marias - Submarine (Indie Exclusive Half Clear/Half Sea Blue Color) Vinyl LP

Heartbreak at periscope depth. Submarine drifts The Marias' bilingual dream pop through breakup fog, Maria Zardoya's voice floating over production that feels underwater by design. The half clear, half sea blue indie pressing is the album's mood made physical.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Dream pop that earns the word cinematic
• English and Spanish lyrics woven seamlessly
• The half clear/half sea blue pressing matches the concept

Towa Tei - Zambient (Clear Color) Vinyl LP

From Deee-Lite to elder statesman of Japanese electronics. Zambient is Towa Tei's fourteenth solo album, arriving just a year after AH!!, with Bose of Scha Dara Parr rapping on the standout Nothing Else 2. Downtempo, house and ambient shades on clear 180g vinyl, equally at home on headphones or in a late-night DJ bag.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• A restless veteran still finding new angles
• Nothing Else 2 rebuilds a song from a fresh direction
• Clear 180g pressing

Various - Beirut City Pop Vinyl LP

Ten recordings from Lebanon's private-press cassette scene of the late 70s and 80s, made during the civil war and circulated mostly among friends. Beirut City Pop moves through disco, soul, bossa and AOR, much of it surviving only on hand-copied tapes, with Stephanie Stephanou, Force and Andromeda among the voices. Another essential Habibi Funk excavation, out this Friday.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Music that nearly vanished, lovingly recovered
• Habibi Funk's research and licensing are the gold standard
• Disco and AOR warmth from an unexpected scene

Various - Lex XX (Limited Edition 180g) Vinyl LP

Twenty years of one of the most quietly influential labels in left-field hip-hop and beyond. Lex XX celebrates the London imprint's anniversary on limited 180g vinyl, a victory lap for a catalog that always valued strange over safe.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• A label retrospective that doubles as a taste education
• Limited 180g pressing
• The deep-catalog gateway your collection is missing

Various - Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight (Original Soundtrack) (Blue & White Cryptkeeper Splatter Color) Vinyl LP

The movie did middling business; the soundtrack became legend. Demon Knight stacked Ministry, Pantera, Megadeth, Sepultura, Melvins and Rollins Band with material mostly unavailable anywhere else, Filter's Hey Man Nice Shot before the band had released a thing, and a Gravediggaz cut of pure horrorcore. Cryptkeeper splatter vinyl from Real Gone, out this Friday.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Exclusive 90s metal tracks that never resurfaced elsewhere
• Filter's debut appearance, before Short Bus
• Blue and white Cryptkeeper splatter, built for October

Various - The Return of the Living Dead (Original Soundtrack) (Radioactive Green with Brown Tarman Splatter Color) Vinyl LP

The 1985 movie where zombies learned to crave brains, scored by the best punk comp of its decade. The Return of the Living Dead runs The Cramps, 45 Grave, The Damned, Roky Erickson, T.S.O.L. and SSQ back to back. Radioactive green with brown tarman splatter, limited to 1500 copies, out this Friday.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The definitive punk-horror soundtrack, period
• Surfin' Dead by The Cramps is a Halloween essential
• Limited to 1500 on the most October-looking vinyl of the year

Victoria Monét - Frequency of Love (Indie Exclusive Cream Marble Blend Color) Vinyl LP

Modern R&B's smoothest architect, operating at cruising altitude. Frequency of Love glides on live-band warmth and disco strings, with the Kaytranada and D'Mile-assisted Reach Out as its calling card. The indie exclusive cream marble blend pressing looks exactly how the record sounds.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Reach Out is the grown-folks groove of the season
• Writing and arrangement craft at the top of the R&B field
• Indie exclusive cream marble pressing

Yasunori Mitsuda - Chrono Trigger (Official Soundtrack) Vinyl LP

The score that still sets the bar for game music, finally in a definitive vinyl edition. Chrono Trigger spreads 64 tracks across four LPs, from Corridors of Time to Frog's Theme to World Revolution, each disc jacketed in Akira Toriyama's original art, with a commemorative note from Mitsuda and a full download code. Due to its size and import costs, this set sits outside our usual discounts, and it is worth every penny anyway.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• 64 tracks across 4LPs, the complete 1995 score
• Akira Toriyama artwork on every jacket
• Download code includes the whole set

Yasunori Mitsuda - Chrono Trigger (Original Soundtrack) (Japan Import) CD

The compact way into the same masterpiece. The Japan import CD of Chrono Trigger delivers Mitsuda's time-hopping score, with Nobuo Uematsu contributions, in the format it first conquered the world on. If the 4LP box above is the shrine, this is the daily driver.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The landmark score without the box-set commitment
• Japan import pressing for the purist
• Corridors of Time sounds great in any format

Yuji Ohno, You & Explosion Band - Full Course Vinyl LP

The man behind the Lupin the Third sound, serving dinner. Full Course finds Yuji Ohno and his You & Explosion Band laying out the jazz-funk spread his fans know from a hundred capers: horns with swagger, electric piano with butter on it. Japanese groove with a chef's confidence, via Jet Set.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The Lupin the Third groove, beyond the soundtracks
• Jazz-funk arrangements with real big-band muscle
• A natural neighbor to this week's J-jazz arrivals

ZZ Top - Eliminator (Rocktober 2026) (Yellow Color) Vinyl LP

The Texas trio put a sequencer under the boogie and accidentally conquered 1983. Eliminator pairs Billy Gibbons' tone with drum machines most of their peers feared, and Gimme All Your Lovin', Sharp Dressed Man and Legs still sound like the open road at night. Yellow vinyl, exclusive to brick-and-mortar shops.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Three singles that never left the radio for a reason
• The strangest, boldest production pivot in blues rock
• Yellow pressing, shops only

That is seventy records in one Friday: three walls, five Ghibli scores, two horror comps and a hamburger recipe you can dance to. Start with the full October 16 collection and work your way down. Four or more new albums takes 10% off automatically at checkout. It's all in GOOD TASTE.