New Album Releases & Arrivals October 23, 2026

This is anniversary week at the shop. Back to Black turns twenty and arrives as a deluxe edition stuffed with demos, B-sides and a full live set. The Black Parade turns twenty and marches in on three different pressings. Life Is Peachy turns thirty on hardwood-colored vinyl, and Organized Konfusion's debut gets its first authorized vinyl reissue at thirty-five.

The hip-hop crate runs just as deep: two OutKast classics on marble, Pete Rock's all-star Soul Survivor, Blu & Sndtrak's love letter to LA, Larry June on orange splatter, and Anderson .Paak with Cordae sharing a crown. Around the edges sit the strange and wonderful: French cosmic disco, Dutch psych-funk, unreleased street funk, synth-punk produced by Dave Sitek, and Jane Remover's guitar project on orchid vinyl.

Everything below arrives Friday, October 23 or is already in the racks. Browse the whole drop here: New Album Releases October 23, 2026.

Amy Winehouse - Back to Black (20th Anniversary Deluxe)

Twenty years since Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi built Amy Winehouse a sixties soul band and she sang lyrics far too honest for it. Back to Black returns as a deluxe anniversary edition with unreleased demos, the complete B-sides, Live at Paradiso Amsterdam 2007, unseen photos and new notes from both producers. Rehab, You Know I'm No Good and Love Is a Losing Game have not softened at all. Out this Friday. Available as indie exclusive chalkboard marble vinyl, three ultra clear LPs, or a three-disc CD set.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Unreleased demos and the complete B-sides, finally gathered
• The 2007 Paradiso live set captures the voice at full power
• Three editions, one anniversary: marble vinyl, clear 3LP, or CD box

Anderson .Paak & Cordae - Heavy Is The Crown Vinyl LP

Two rappers a generation apart who make more sense together than the pairing looks on paper. Heavy Is The Crown sets .Paak's drummer timing and soul delivery against Cordae's technical writing over warm, live-sounding production, with lead single A Good Day showing how conversational the whole thing feels. Out this Friday, on indie exclusive pink and grey vinyl or standard black.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• A collaboration that plays like a conversation, not a contest
• A Good Day is already in shop rotation
• Indie pink and grey or standard black, your call

Avalanches - No Bad Memories Vinyl LP

One weekend in and No Bad Memories already sounds like the fall. The Avalanches' fourth album turns jingles, start-up chimes and brand logos into something unexpectedly moving, 31 tracks deep, with Jamie xx, Karen O, Carly Simon, Haruomi Hosono and Suzanne Ciani woven through, and the physical editions carry Evergreen Altar with Vegyn, which exists nowhere else. Available on 180g yellow or indie exclusive 180g blue.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The first Avalanches album in six years, now in the racks
• Evergreen Altar with Vegyn, physical copies only
• 180g yellow or indie exclusive blue, both built to last

Bibio & Dorian Concept - Answers Vinyl LP

Now that it is here, Answers is settling in as the headphone record of the season: Bibio's tape-warmed guitar and Dorian Concept's liquid synths, recorded remotely between Wales and Austria over a decade of friendship, entirely instrumental and entirely unhurried. The concertina booklet unfolds the way the music does.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Two Warp melodists speaking one language
• Lichen Trip is the gentlest earworm of the fall
• Vinyl edition includes the concertina booklet

Blu & Sndtrak - LA Vinyl LP

Blu has spent a career sitting exactly where the G-Funk lineage meets the LA underground, and LA distills it: homage to the classic West Coast sonics with a layered read on the city underneath. Sndtrak of 9th Wonder's Soul Council reworks vintage grooves to carry the writing, with Volume 10, Thurz, MED, Iman Omari, Trizz and ICECOLDBISHOP passing through.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• West Coast rap with the full depth the coast deserves
• Soul Council production from Sndtrak
• A guest list straight from the LA underground

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

Twenty years on, people still walk into record shops asking for this exact disc. Departure is where Nujabes' Aruarian Dance and the Shing02 collaboration Battlecry live, split with Fat Jon across 17 tracks that quietly invented a genre's vocabulary. The Japan import CD is the pilgrimage format.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The founding document of the lofi beat generation
• Aruarian Dance remains undefeated
• Japan import pressing, the real article

Fontaines D.C. - Dopamine Chamber Vinyl LP

The verdict from the first weekend is in: the cold turn suits them. Dopamine Chamber, Fontaines D.C.'s fifth, swaps Romance's technicolor for James Ford's synthetic chill, and Grian Chatten's "room you step into" turns out to be one people are staying in. Marianne has not left the shop speakers since Friday. Available on blue vinyl or the fast-moving indie exclusive blue marble.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The year's most anticipated rock record, now actually here
• Marianne is the doorway into the band's boldest turn yet
• Blue or indie blue marble; the marble will not linger

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

Heads will tell you Impression is the better half, and they have a case: 23 tracks, Force of Nature's underrated opening run, a Nujabes middle stretch holding some of his most loved beats, and MINMI's Who's Theme closing the series out. Grab it with Departure and settle the argument yourself.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The deeper, longer half of the Champloo canon
• Force of Nature's contribution deserves the reappraisal
• Japan import CD, shelf-ready next to Departure

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

The sleeper hit of last Friday's drop. Spider Man, Freddie McCoy's 1966 Prestige vibraphone session built around a Marvel tie-in that never happened, keeps leaving the shop the moment someone hears Speak Out, Deagan! over the speakers. First-ever vinyl reissue, cut all-analog. Available on clear with red and blue swirl, like the suit, or standard black.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Vibraphone soul-jazz that sells itself in one listen
• All-analog cut of a Prestige rarity
• The swirl is half the fun; the black is all business

Free the Robots - Vol. 1 Vinyl LP

Chris Alfaro released Vol. 1 in 2006, when the LA beat scene was a handful of people in a room rather than a genre with a Wikipedia page, and Free the Robots was in the middle of it. Original copies went scarce and expensive years ago. Six tracks, with Jazzhole and Diary still turning up in DJ rotations, back for the twentieth anniversary on black vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• A founding document of the LA beat scene, finally repressed
• Jazzhole alone justifies the reissue
• The affordable alternative to a collector-priced original

John Kaizan Neptune - Bamboo (Clear Light Green Color) Vinyl LP

An American who moved to Japan, earned the Kaizan title in the Tozan school of shakuhachi, and then pushed the instrument somewhere it had never been. Bamboo threads bamboo flute through jazz fusion with the Arakawa Band behind him, and it took a national Art Festival award in Japan, a first for a jazz record by a foreign artist. Remastered, on clear light green vinyl, and a perfect neighbor for our jazz racks.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Shakuhachi jazz fusion that should not work and completely does
• Freshly remastered by Katsutoshi Kitamura
• Clear light green pressing matches the title

John Legend - Muse (Indie Exclusive Smokey Quartz Color) Vinyl LP

Sixteen tracks built around voice and piano rather than a production team, with Pharrell Williams steering from the booth. Muse circles devotion, doubt and the work of staying in love over time, familiar Legend territory and no less affecting for it, with lead single Daylight setting the warm tone. Indie exclusive smokey quartz vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Voice-and-piano Legend, the mode he does best
• Daylight is built for Sunday mornings
• Indie exclusive smokey quartz pressing

Korn - Life Is Peachy (30th Anniversary Vinyl Voice Hardwood Color) Vinyl LP

Recorded fast at Indigo Ranch with Ross Robinson while the debut's nerve was still raw, Life Is Peachy is fourteen tracks of downtuned seven-string riffs and hip-hop bounce, from the scat attack of Twist through A.D.I.D.A.S. and Good God. The 30th anniversary Vinyl Voice edition lands on hardwood color vinyl and closes with an acapella Twist.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The rawest record of the first Korn run, thirty years on
• Acapella Twist is a genuinely unhinged bonus
• Hardwood color pressing, Vinyl Voice exclusive

Larry June - Who Coppin Vinyl LP

A decade of building an aesthetic out of orange juice, early mornings and staying unbothered, and the formula still has not worn thin. Who Coppin keeps Larry June unhurried over warm, expensive-sounding production, dropping business advice between bars like it costs nothing. Available as a limited 2LP on clear with orange splatter, the most on-brand vinyl decision of the year, or the standard pressing.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The most consistent catalog in West Coast rap right now
• Business advice between bars, delivered like it costs nothing
• Orange splatter for the devoted, standard for the sensible

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

Still in the racks from last Friday: On Parole in its alternative mixes, the 1975 album United Artists shelved until Motorhead got famous without them. Rawer and more Hawkwind-adjacent than the band most people know, and a natural companion to this week's horror-punk arrivals. Smokey marble, brick-and-mortar exclusive.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Proto-Motorhead, looser and stranger than the legend
• The mixes run closer to the room than the 1979 release
• Smokey marble pressing, shops only

Mott the Hoople - Brain Capers (Rocktober 2026) (Rhino Reserve) Vinyl LP

The sound of a band about to quit and deciding to burn the studio down first. Brain Capers, from 1971, is the loudest, least careful thing Mott the Hoople ever made: Ian Hunter shouting over Mick Ralphs, covers played like grudges, The Journey stretching toward despair. They nearly split right after; David Bowie talked them out of it. Rhino Reserve, cut from the analog tape, out this Friday.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Pre-Bowie Mott at their most unhinged
• Rhino Reserve analog cut does the chaos justice
• The missing link between the Stones and punk

My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade (20th Anniversary) Vinyl LP

Twenty years on, the rock opera about The Patient works because the band never once winks at it. Gerard Way sells every word over Rob Cavallo's marching snares and stacked harmonies, from Welcome to the Black Parade through Famous Last Words. The deluxe edition adds six tracks: the B-sides Heaven Help Us, Kill All Your Friends and My Way Home Is Through You, plus three 2007 tour performances. Available as the indie exclusive baby pink deluxe 2LP, the concrete grey single LP, or the import concrete grey pressing, all in gatefolds with removable O-card and new art insert.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The deluxe adds six tracks, including the three great B-sides
• Baby pink against the Black Parade is exactly the right joke
• Three pressings cover the whole parade, casual to completist

N8NOFACE - Tomorrow's World Vinyl LP

A drum machine, a cheap synth and a voice that has been shouting over both for years. Tomorrow's World hands N8NOFACE's synth-punk to producer Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio, who pushes it toward darkwave without sanding an edge off, with Hudson Mohawke and Angelica Garcia dropping in. His biggest-sounding record, on Stones Throw, with a reversible poster. Out this Friday.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Dave Sitek production on full-contact synth-punk
• Stones Throw continues its perfect weirdo streak
• Comes with reversible poster and lyric insert

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

Japan's answer to Vanishing Point, scored like a jazz heist. Shadow Of The Highway chases a Mitsubishi Galant GTO from Kagoshima to Hokkaido on racing vibraphone and galloping bass, with session personnel that remain a happy mystery. This week it has new company in the racks: file it between the Space disco and the Neptune fusion for a very good night.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• High-speed 1971 Japanese soundtrack jazz
• The anonymous-session intrigue is half the charm
• Anchors this week's left-field groove shelf

Organized Konfusion - Organized Konfusion (self-titled) (35th Anniversary) Vinyl LP

Pharoahe Monch and Prince Po built their 1991 debut from dense rhyme patterns, chaotic breaks and wit that swings from playground nostalgia to surreal social commentary inside one verse, then watched it spend decades out of official press. The 35th anniversary edition is the first authorized vinyl reissue, expanded to 2LP with three rare bonus cuts including the Fudge Pudge and Walk Into the Sun remixes. Out this Friday.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The blueprint for what became underground hip-hop
• First authorized vinyl pressing in decades
• Three rare bonus tracks on the expanded 2LP

OutKast - Big Boi & Dre Present... OutKast (Purple Marble Color) Vinyl LP

The 2001 retrospective that caught OutKast right before Stankonia turned them into something else. Big Boi & Dre Present runs Player's Ball, ATLiens, Elevators, Rosa Parks, B.O.B. and Ms. Jackson in sequence, the fastest way to hear seven years of evolution, plus three new cuts including The Whole World with Killer Mike. Purple marble 2LP, and a gateway into our whole hip-hop section.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The first four albums distilled onto one 2LP
• The Whole World with Killer Mike still astonishes
• Purple marble, the only correct color for OutKast

OutKast - Idlewild (Grey & Red Marble Color) Vinyl LP

The last OutKast album and the strangest. Idlewild ties to the pair's Prohibition-era musical and plays like two solo records sharing a sleeve: Andre deep in ragtime and cabaret, Big Boi holding down the Georgia funk, Mighty O opening hard and Morris Brown marching a whole band through the middle. Uneven by design, full of ideas nobody else attempted in 2006. Grey and red marble 2LP.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The great misunderstood OutKast record, due a revisit
• Morris Brown and Idlewild Blue earn the sleeve alone
• Grey and red marble 2LP pressing

Pete Rock - Soul Survivor (140g) Vinyl LP

A posse record built by one man. Soul Survivor plays like Pete Rock opening his address book in 1998: Ghostface and Raekwon, Method Man, Kool G Rap, Black Thought, Common, Big Pun, Prodigy, Inspectah Deck and Large Professor all taking turns over dusty horn loops and drums that land like furniture falling over. Two LPs on 140g, out this Friday.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• One of the great producer albums, period
• A guest list that reads like a 90s hall of fame
• 140g 2LP pressing of the SP-1200 gospel

Slayyyter - Starfucker (Deluxe) Vinyl LP

Halloween party season has a soundtrack. Starfucker Deluxe runs Slayyyter's Hollywood-noir pop fantasy through the expanded tracklist, glitter and menace in equal parts, a starlet's diary read by flashlight. Available on gold vinyl, obviously, or the indie exclusive red and pink pressing.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The expanded deluxe tracklist in full costume
• October parties need exactly this energy
• Gold or lipstick red and pink, both committed to the bit

Space - The Art of Space Disco (1977-1978) (Clear Color) Vinyl LP

Didier Marouani founded Space in 1977 and had a worldwide hit almost immediately with Magic Fly, weightless cosmic disco that set the template for everything after. The Art of Space Disco pulls the most enduring pieces from the three albums that followed inside two years, newly remastered by Alex Gopher, on clear vinyl that looks the part.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Magic Fly and the cosmic disco canon in one place
• Fresh Alex Gopher remaster
• The missing link between disco and French touch

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

Yamashita records barely ever sit in American racks, which is reason enough to flag Artisan again: his tenth album, 1991, every arrangement layered and polished by hand, from Endless Game to Turner's Steam Locomotive. Part of the 50th anniversary Moon-era reissue run, with liner notes by the man himself.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• City pop royalty, rarely available stateside
• The Moon-era run is the collector's sweet spot
• Liner notes by Yamashita himself

Tom Morello - Everyone Gets Everything They Want (Rebel Swirl Color) Vinyl LP

Thirty years of proving a guitar can be an argument, first with Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, now across a solo run that refuses to settle. Everyone Gets Everything They Want pairs the playing with the politics the way he always has, led by the single Date Night. On Mom+Pop, pressed on rebel swirl vinyl. Out this Friday.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Morello's guitar vocabulary remains its own genre
• Date Night opens the record at full tilt
• Rebel swirl pressing, aptly named

Towa Tei - Zambient (Clear Color) Vinyl LP

The Deee-Lite alumnus turned elder statesman of Japanese electronics, fourteen albums deep and still restless. Zambient drifts between downtempo, house and ambient on clear 180g vinyl, with Bose of Scha Dara Parr rapping on Nothing Else 2. As at home on headphones as in a late-night DJ bag.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• A veteran still finding fresh angles
• Equal parts chillout room and dancefloor
• Clear 180g pressing

Various - Beirut City Pop Vinyl LP

The conversation starter of the month. Beirut City Pop gathers ten recordings from Lebanon's private-press cassette scene of the late 70s and 80s, disco and AOR made during the civil war and circulated among friends, much of it surviving only on hand-copied tapes. Habibi Funk's research and licensing, as always, set the standard.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Music that nearly vanished, recovered with care
• Disco, soul and bossa from an unexpected scene
• Habibi Funk pressings do not linger in the racks

Various - Funk Freaks: Street Funk Volume 1 Vinyl LP

Funk Freaks opens the vault. Street Funk Volume 1 gathers eight rare and previously unreleased cuts from 1980 through the 2000s, raw low-end street funk with the grit left in: Carl Summers twice, XL Middleton, Dogg Master with Frosty and more, under an Estevan Oriol cover. Vinyl only, no digital, no CD, which is the whole point.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Eight cuts sample heads have chased for decades
• Vinyl only: this pressing is the release
• Estevan Oriol shot the cover

Various - Hospital Records: Forza Horizon 6 Vinyl LP

Hospital Records and Forza Horizon have collaborated long enough that it counts as tradition, and the fifth outing is the biggest. The Forza Horizon 6 collection spreads 24 tracks of drum and bass built for driving fast across three 12-inch discs in a triple gatefold, drawing on the label's full three-decade run.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• 24 tracks of D&B engineered for the open road
• 3x12" triple gatefold presentation
• Works for the racing crowd and the junglists alike

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

Nine days to Halloween, and Demon Knight is the party record for it: Ministry, Pantera, Megadeth, Sepultura and Melvins with material that mostly appeared nowhere else, Filter's Hey Man Nice Shot before the band had released a thing, and Gravediggaz bringing the horrorcore. Cryptkeeper splatter from Real Gone.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Exclusive 90s metal that never resurfaced elsewhere
• The Gravediggaz cut is archetypal horrorcore
• Splatter vinyl, peak October energy

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

If your Halloween needs a house band, it is this one. The Return of the Living Dead runs The Cramps, 45 Grave, The Damned, Roky Erickson and T.S.O.L. back to back, the best punk comp of its decade disguised as a zombie soundtrack. Radioactive green with tarman splatter, limited to 1500.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Partytime by 45 Grave, the zombie national anthem
• The definitive punk-horror soundtrack
• Limited to 1500 on the most October vinyl imaginable

Venturing - Ghostholding (Orchid Color) Vinyl LP

Venturing is Jane Remover's guitar project, and Ghostholding is its full-length debut: emo, slowcore and shoegaze pulled into fuzzed-out indie rock, written over two years and recorded, produced and mixed entirely by Remover. The singles Sister, Halloween and Famous Girl bury big melodies under a deliberately hazy mix. This 2026 pressing puts it on orchid double vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• One of the most talked-about young songwriters, on guitar
• Halloween is seasonally perfect and emotionally not
• Orchid 2LP pressing of the deadAir debut

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

As the nights get longer, Frequency of Love makes more and more sense: live-band warmth, disco strings and Monét's unhurried pen, with the Kaytranada and D'Mile-assisted Reach Out at the center. The cream marble indie pressing matches the sound exactly.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Grown R&B craft at the top of the field
• Reach Out glides like nothing else this year
• Indie exclusive cream marble pressing

Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (Indie Exclusive Pink Jelly Bean Color) Vinyl LP

November is five weeks of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving weather, and the record earns it: Guaraldi's trio swinging through the Thanksgiving Theme and Little Birdie with the same warm melancholy that made the Christmas album immortal. Indie exclusive pink jelly bean vinyl, ready for the table.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The other great Guaraldi holiday record
• Thanksgiving Theme earns year-round rotation
• Pink jelly bean pressing, indie shops only

Yin Yin - Yatta! Vinyl LP

A quartet from Maastricht who found their direction in compilations of psychedelic Southeast Asian guitar music and have been travelling east ever since. Yatta!, their fourth, pushes the dancefloor hardest yet: disco, funk, surf and psychedelia welded to Eastern tunings, with a streak of spacey italo running through eleven tracks of soundtracks for imaginary journeys.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Dutch psych-funk with a passport full of stamps
• The italo streak makes it a DJ secret weapon
• Four people plainly enjoying themselves, audibly

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

Still parked out front: Eliminator on Rocktober yellow, the 1983 record where the Texas trio put a sequencer under the boogie and the songs proved strong enough to carry the machinery. Sharp Dressed Man and Legs, chrome and all, exclusive to brick-and-mortar shops.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Three permanent radio singles on one side
• The boldest production pivot in blues rock
• Yellow pressing, shops only

That is the week: four anniversaries, a hip-hop crate that runs from Queensbridge to Atlanta, and a groove shelf that stretches from Beirut to Maastricht to deep space. Start with the full October 23 collection and dig in. Four or more new albums takes 10% off automatically at checkout. It's all in GOOD TASTE.