New Album Releases & Arrivals September 25, 2026

September goes out counting anniversaries. B'Day turns twenty. Buena Vista Social Club turns thirty. Plantasia, the album Mort Garson wrote for houseplants, turns fifty and gets its first pressing you can compost. And Alice in Chains' MTV Unplugged, one of the most requested records at the counter for years, finally lands on vinyl at all.

The new blood holds its own against the calendar: Leon Bridges goes coastal with half of Jungle producing, KNEECAP's Irish-language debut hits wax for the first time, King Gizzard presses a live set onto a skull, and the DC hardcore shelf doubles down with Minor Threat and Fugazi cornerstones side by side.

It's the last Friday of the month, so this one collects everything: full write-ups on the titles we haven't covered yet, then a rundown of what's still in the racks from September's earlier drops. Shop the full September 25, 2026 collection here.

Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged (Yellow Color) Vinyl LP

Recorded in April 1996 at Brooklyn's Majestic Theatre, MTV Unplugged was Alice in Chains' first show in over two years and one of the last times the classic lineup played together. Stripped to acoustic guitars, "Nutshell," "Down in a Hole," "Rooster," and "Would?" get reframed, and the fragility only sharpens the harmony between Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell. The yellow 2LP is the indie exclusive. Pick up MTV Unplugged on yellow vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Yellow 2LP pressing only at independent record stores
• The 1996 acoustic set, on vinyl at long last
• The band at its most exposed and most beautiful

Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged Vinyl LP

The standard pressing of MTV Unplugged carries the same document straight: close harmony, brushed drums, and a band letting its heaviest songs stand in daylight, "Brother" included. Order MTV Unplugged on standard vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The full Majestic Theatre set across two LPs
• Staley and Cantrell's harmonies, front and center
• A grunge landmark finally in the vinyl racks

Beyonce - B'Day (20th Anniversary 180g) Vinyl LP

Beyonce cut B'Day in a two-week burst in 2006, fresh off Dangerously in Love and the end of Destiny's Child, and the speed is audible: "Deja Vu," "Ring the Alarm," "Get Me Bodied," "Upgrade U," and "Irreplaceable" all hit like the clock was running. The 20th anniversary edition spreads it across two 180g LPs, adds "Morning Dew (Donk)," and packs a 16-page booklet of unseen imagery. Grab B'Day at twenty on 180g vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• 20th anniversary 2LP on 180g with 16-page booklet
• Adds "Morning Dew (Donk)" to the original program
• The template every pop-R&B record since has chased

Billy Strings - So Much For Goodbyes (Sun Core Yellow Color) Vinyl LP

Billy Strings has spent a decade proving bluegrass can still feel dangerous, matching jaw-dropping flatpicking to a jam band's exploratory looseness and pulling a whole new generation toward the genre. So Much For Goodbyes is the latest studio set, a double LP on sun core yellow as an indie retail exclusive, for the players and the pickers alike. Pick up So Much For Goodbyes on sun core yellow vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Sun core yellow 2LP only at independent record stores
• Fearless picking from bluegrass's biggest live draw
• Deep roots, played like a rock show

Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club (30th Anniversary, Pearl Color) Vinyl LP

Thirty years since Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, Ry Cooder, and Nick Gold gathered Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzalez, Eliades Ochoa, Compay Segundo, and Omara Portuondo at Havana's EGREM Studios, Buena Vista Social Club remains the record that carried Cuban son around the world and inspired the Wim Wenders film. The anniversary 2LP comes on pearl vinyl with the 25th anniversary remaster, bonus tracks, and a twenty-page booklet. Order Buena Vista Social Club on pearl vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• 30th anniversary pearl 2LP with remastered audio
• Bonus tracks plus a twenty-page booklet
• The 1996 Havana sessions, still undimmed

Chloe Caillet - Dance Again Vinyl 12"

Chloe Caillet DJs like someone who remembers what a club felt like before everyone held up a phone, and Dance Again puts that on wax: her Ninja Tune debut, rooted in New York club culture with an eighties new wave streak, built from years of playing rooms at Circoloco and beyond. Myd, Luke Alessi, and D Stone contribute, and the vinyl carries exclusive extended versions of every track. Grab Dance Again on 12".

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The Ninja Tune debut with vinyl-only extended versions
• New York club roots with a new wave streak
• Set staples finally pressed, 140g with matte finish

Fugazi - 13 Songs CD

13 Songs is where most people start with Fugazi, and it is not really an album at all: the first two EPs, 7 Songs from 1988 and Margin Walker from 1989, on one disc, which puts "Waiting Room," "Bulldog Front," and "Suggestion" in a row before the tighter, angrier back half. Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, working out how two voices fit one song. With the Minor Threat 12" landing the same week, the Dischord shelf is fully stocked. Pick up 13 Songs on CD.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The first two EPs on one budget-friendly disc
• "Waiting Room" and "Suggestion" at the source
• Remastered at Silver Sonya in 2002

Gilberto Gil & Jorge Ben - Ogum, Xangô Vinyl LP

Two titans of Brazilian music, one joyful 1975 session: Ogum, Xango catches Gilberto Gil and Jorge Ben trading verses and grooves, leaning into samba, funk, and Afro-Brazilian spiritual themes, their voices and guitars weaving in and out of each other. Originally released as Gil e Jorge, it captures a friendship as much as a partnership, back on a 2LP pressing. Out this Friday. Order Ogum, Xango on 2LP.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The beloved 1975 Gil e Jorge session on 2LP, imported
• Loose, warm, and completely unpretentious
• Pairs with Clube da Esquina below for a Brazil corner

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Skull X-Ray (Deluxe Edition) (X-Ray Picture Disc) Vinyl LP

King Gizzard's officially sanctioned Bootlegger Series goes macabre: Skull X-Ray nods to Soviet-era bone music, the underground records cut onto discarded medical x-rays, rendered as a one-sided picture disc of a human skull with a nail in the temple. The seven songs come from the band's own Field of Vision festival in Colorado in August 2025, pairing the opening run of I'm In Your Mind Fuzz with the Polygondwanaland stretch. Out this Friday. Grab Skull X-Ray on picture disc.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• One-sided x-ray picture disc, out September 25
• Live cuts from the 2025 Field of Vision festival
• Bone-music homage from rock's most prolific band

KNEECAP - 3CAG Vinyl LP

3CAG is where the Belfast trio's legend started: a defiant 2018 mixtape rapped largely in Irish, running hip-hop, dance, and punk energy into something entirely their own. Since then came international attention, a feature film, and festival headline slots; this pressing brings the raw, unfiltered origin to wax for the first time. Out this Friday. Pick up 3CAG on vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The 2018 debut's first-ever vinyl pressing, imported
• Irish-language rap with punk in its blood
• The origin story before the film

La Femme - Psycho Tropical Berlin Vinyl LP

La Femme's debut named its own genre: Psycho Tropical Berlin, where Biarritz surf guitar meets French cold wave and ye-ye pop, all deadpan vocals and motorik drive. "Sur la planche" remains the anthem, a song built to be hummed on a surfboard, and the record around it still sounds like a beach party in a bunker. Back in the racks on the Born Bad pressing with printed inner sleeves. Order Psycho Tropical Berlin on vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The 2013 French surf-wave debut, back in print
• Home of "Sur la planche"
• Printed inner sleeves on the Born Bad edition

Lambrini Girls - Who Let the Dogs Out (Indie Exclusive Blue Color) Vinyl LP

Brighton noise-punk duo Lambrini Girls recorded their debut with Gilla Band's Daniel Fox, with Seth Manchester mixing, and Who Let the Dogs Out bottles everything wrong with the modern world and shakes it: sirens over distorted bass, pop-punk sugar next to discordant post-punk, humor like a sparkler in the bread. Take-no-prisoners stuff from one of the UK's most fearless bands, on blue indie vinyl. Grab Who Let the Dogs Out on blue vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Blue pressing only at independent record stores
• Political fury delivered with a grin
• Mixed by Seth Manchester of Mdou Moctar renown

Leon Bridges - Happiness Anytime (Campari Red Color) Vinyl LP

Leon Bridges trades retro-soul and hometown country for a passport on his fifth album, out this Friday: Happiness Anytime, made with J. Lloyd and Lydia Kitto of Jungle, pulls Fela Kuti's Afrobeat, Brazilian rhythms, disco, and soul into something coastal and golden. The Part 1 EP, led by "Your Love Is Electric," is already out and sets the tone: his voice has never sounded more relaxed. Campari red is the indie exclusive. Pick up Happiness Anytime on Campari red vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Campari red pressing only at independent record stores
• Produced with Jungle's J. Lloyd and Lydia Kitto
• "Your Love Is Electric" already streaming, album out September 25

Leon Bridges - Happiness Anytime (White Sand Color) Vinyl LP

The white sand pressing of Happiness Anytime matches the album's beach-morning palette: music for any mood, built to transport you somewhere warm. Order Happiness Anytime on white sand vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• White sand pressing of the fifth album, out September 25
• Afrobeat, Brazilian rhythms, disco, and soul in one sweep
• The most relaxed Bridges has ever sounded

Milton Nascimento, Lo Borges - Clube da Esquina Vinyl LP

Clube da Esquina is less an album than a whole scene captured at once: Milton Nascimento and Lo Borges at the center, the Minas Gerais crowd folded around them, moving between Brazilian folk, Beatles-shaped melody, jazz harmony, and something close to psych across twenty-one tracks that never read as a compilation. "Tudo Que Voce Podia Ser," "Cais," "O Trem Azul." One of 1972's monuments, imported. Grab Clube da Esquina on vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The 1972 Minas Gerais masterpiece, imported
• Twenty-one tracks with no seams showing
• The other half of this week's Brazil corner

Minor Threat - First Two Seven Inches (Clear Color) Vinyl LP

First Two Seven Inches gathers the two 1981 EPs that made Minor Threat the loudest argument in American hardcore: "Straight Edge," "Minor Threat," "In My Eyes," "Out of Step (With the World)," most of it under two minutes, Ian MacKaye laying out a code and daring you to keep up. It invented a subculture almost by accident, and Dischord keeps it in print because people keep needing it. On clear vinyl. Pick up First Two Seven Inches on clear vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The 1981 EPs on one clear-vinyl record
• "Straight Edge" at the source
• Completes a DC double with the Fugazi disc above

Morcheeba - Big Calm (Argentina Import) Vinyl LP

Big Calm is the record where Morcheeba outgrew the trip-hop tag: the Godfrey brothers pull lounge, reggae, folk, and film-score strings around Skye Edwards' unhurried voice, with "The Sea," "Blindfold," and "Part of the Process" carrying the load. This single LP is an Argentine WEA pressing, imported and harder to come by stateside. Order Big Calm on import vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The 1998 classic on an Argentine import pressing
• "The Sea" and "Part of the Process" in sequence
• Sunday-morning music with real low end

Mort Garson - Mother Earth's Plantasia (50th Anniversary Green Eco Mix Color) Vinyl LP

In 1976, at the height of America's houseplant mania, Juilliard-trained arranger Mort Garson pointed his Moog at the ficus and made a record for the greenery. Handed out free with plants from a Melrose shop, Plantasia traveled from thrift-store obscurity to full cult adoration. The 50th anniversary edition is the first authorized eco pressing: 100% recycled multicolor eco mix vinyl, recycled jacket, a reproduction of the plant care booklet, and a plantable seed-paper download card. Grab Plantasia at fifty on eco mix vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• 50th anniversary pressing on recycled eco mix vinyl
• Includes the plant care booklet and seed-paper card
• Gently stoned Moog miniatures for you and the ficus

Mort Garson - Mother Earth's Plantasia Cover Art T-Shirt (Tan)

The Plantasia cover on tan cotton: the potted plant, the lettering, no explanation offered, which is exactly how the record works too. A unisex tee from Sacred Bones, sized small through XX-large, made to pair with the anniversary pressing above. Pick up the Plantasia cover art tee.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The cult cover art on a unisex tan tee
• Small through XX-large from Sacred Bones
• The right shirt for watering day

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (Deluxe Edition) Vinyl LP

Two years, nineteen studios, and a budget that nearly sank Creation Records produced an album that still sounds like nothing else. The deluxe Loveless is the pressing Kevin Shields oversaw himself: heavyweight vinyl cut fully from analogue, gatefold tip-on jacket, board-mounted sleeve, download card. The standard pressing sits in the racks below; this is the one for the devoted. Order Loveless deluxe on vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The Shields-overseen all-analogue deluxe cut, imported
• Gatefold tip-on jacket with board-mounted sleeve
• "Only Shallow" to "Soon" at maximum fidelity

Nintendo - The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Original Soundtrack CD

The official Breath of the Wild soundtrack CD collects 211 tracks from the 2017 open-world landmark, including the downloadable content score and two bonus trailer pieces not used in the game, with a sound-staff roundtable in the booklet. The completist's document, imported from Japan; the vinyl statement piece is the box set below. Grab the Breath of the Wild soundtrack on CD.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• All 211 tracks including DLC score, imported
• Two bonus trailer tracks and a staff roundtable booklet
• The complete companion to the 8LP box below

Supertramp - Breakfast in America (Half-Speed Master) Vinyl LP

Supertramp's 1979 peak is where the band's fussy studio craft and pop instincts finally met in the middle: "The Logical Song," "Goodbye Stranger," "Take the Long Way Home," and the title track, all Wurlitzer and saxophone that still sound like nothing else from the period. This edition is the definitive series treatment: transferred at Abbey Road by Miles Showell, cut half-speed with co-producer Peter Henderson overseeing, on 180g. Pick up Breakfast in America half-speed mastered.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Abbey Road half-speed master on 180g
• Cut with original co-producer Peter Henderson overseeing
• Four permanent radio staples on one record

Ty Segall - Chrome Vinyl LP

Chrome reconvenes Ty Segall's full band, Ben Boye, Evan Burrows, Mikal Cronin, and Emmett Kelly, for massive riffs and tightly arrayed fuzz: twin-guitar attack and parry, churning keyboards, precise thudding power under lyrically allusive trips through dark passages. The single "Black Paint" opened the rollout, and the whole record bristles with full-band energy. On Drag City. Order Chrome on vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The full band reconvened on Drag City
• Lead single "Black Paint" sets the tone
• Fuzz with architecture underneath

Various - Final Fantasy IX - House Grooves (Japan Import) CD

Final Fantasy IX heads to the dance floor: Square Enix hands twelve of Nobuo Uematsu's themes, "A Place to Call Home" through "Freya's Theme," to producers including SEQUENCE, Lonely Boy, and Andreas Saag, who rebuild them as warm, bass-forward deep house with the melodies front and center. The FFX volume that started the conversation at the counter is still in the racks below. Japanese CD pressing, imported. Grab FF IX House Grooves on CD.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Twelve Uematsu themes rebuilt as deep house, imported
• Nostalgia that survives the kick drum
• Completes the House Grooves pair with FFX below

Various - Soul Jazz Records presents New York Noise: Dance Music From The New York Underground 1978-82 Vinyl LP

New York Noise catches the few years when downtown dance music and punk stopped circling each other and collided: Arthur Russell as Dinosaur L, James White and the Contortions, Mars, Konk, Material, Bush Tetras, Theoretical Girls, and Lizzy Mercier Descloux, plus rarities from Alan Vega and Chain Gang. The 2026 edition is freshly remastered and cut loud, with extensive sleevenotes and photography. Out this Friday. Pick up New York Noise on vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The no wave and disco collision, remastered for 2026
• Arthur Russell, ESG-era downtown, and Contortions energy
• Extensive sleevenotes and photography included

Various - Soul Jazz Records presents Rumble In The Jungle (20th Anniversary) Vinyl LP

Rumble in the Jungle is the record that explains where jungle came from: acid house tempo, UK dancehall soundsystem roots, and London producers pushing breakbeats past what the hardware was meant to do. General Levy's "Incredible," Cutty Ranks's "Limb by Limb," Congo Natty's remake of "Under Me Sensi," plus M-Beat, Beenie Man, and Ragga Twins. The 20th anniversary edition is newly remastered across two loud LPs with sleevenotes and interviews. Out this Friday. Order Rumble In The Jungle on 2LP.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The jungle origin story, remastered at twenty
• "Incredible" and "Limb by Limb" on loud vinyl
• Sleevenotes and interviews across the gatefold

Various - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Vinyl LP Box Set

The first Nintendo soundtrack commercially released on vinyl outside Japan: Laced Records' Breath of the Wild box runs nearly four hours across eight heavyweight LPs, each side sequenced around a theme, from the first spine-tingling piano notes of the main theme to the Divine Beast battles' orchestral grandeur. Printed inners, spined sleeves, rigid dual slipcase, archival artwork. Grab the Breath of the Wild 8LP box.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Eight LPs and nearly four hours of score
• The first Nintendo soundtrack on vinyl outside Japan
• Rigid dual slipcase with archival artwork

Various - The Music of Red Dead Redemption 2 (Original Soundtrack) Vinyl LP

The Music of Red Dead Redemption 2 is a soundtrack that doubles as a songwriter's round: Daniel Lanois produced the whole thing, and the vocal cast runs D'Angelo, Willie Nelson, Nas, Rhiannon Giddens, and Josh Homme. D'Angelo's "Unshaken" alone justifies the pressing. Campfire Americana with studio depth, back in the racks. Pick up The Music of Red Dead Redemption 2 on vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• Produced end to end by Daniel Lanois
• D'Angelo, Willie Nelson, Nas, and Rhiannon Giddens sing
• A VGM record that plays like an Americana album

Xiu Xiu - La Foret (Jade Eco-Mix Color) Vinyl LP

Back on vinyl for the first time in fifteen years, La Foret ranks among Xiu Xiu's subtlest and scariest records: post-punk, gamelan, synth pop, folk, and noise knotted so tightly around Jamie Stewart's songs that love, fear, and humor stop being separable. Harsh and beautiful in the same breath, on jade eco-mix vinyl with lyrics. Order La Foret on jade vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• First vinyl pressing in fifteen years
• The 2005 album at its most quietly unnerving
• Jade eco-mix pressing with printed lyrics

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor (180g) Vinyl LP

Solid State Survivor is where Yellow Magic Orchestra stopped being a studio experiment and became a blueprint: Hosono's bass, Takahashi's drumming, and Sakamoto's synthesis run through vocoders and early sequencers in 1979, with "Technopolis," "Rydeen," and "Behind the Mask" sampled and rebuilt by generations since. Music On Vinyl 180g, imported, landing the same month as the Hiroshi Sato and Sumiko Yamagata reissues still in the racks below. Grab Solid State Survivor on 180g vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The 1979 techno-pop blueprint on 180g, imported
• "Rydeen" and "Behind the Mask" at the source
• Anchors the month's deep Japan corner

Yellow Magic Orchestra - YMO USA & Yellow Magic Orchestra (180g) Vinyl LP

When A&M brought YMO to America in 1979, they released neither Japanese album as it stood: this is the assemblage built from both, remixed for American ears and sequenced to sell a Japanese electronic group to a country with no category for one. The version most Western listeners heard first, and the remixes have their own following. Music On Vinyl 180g, imported. Pick up YMO USA on 180g vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing:

• The 1979 American edition on 180g, imported
• Remixes with a following of their own
• The other half of this week's YMO pair

Still in the Racks From Recent Weeks

The rest of the month is still on the wall. Quick hits, grouped by the week they landed; full write-ups live in the linked posts' original coverage.

Fresh from September 18

Miley's mononym era is moving in apple indie and standard pressings, and Orville Peck's Mule keeps dancing on tan translucent. beabadoobee's Pylon holds in oyster and sea foam green, Beck's Ride Lonesome in vintage green and standard, and Carly Rae Jepsen's double album in translucent forest green. Chance The Rapper's Coloring Book deluxe gold is still the decade-in-waiting pressing, Drive 5 still glows in splatter, and the Hole catalog run stands complete: Pretty On The Inside, Live Through This, Celebrity Skin. Lee "Scratch" Perry's Super Ape Returns to Conquer anchors the dub shelf, Loveless on the standard pressing keeps vanishing, and Panda Bear & Sonic Boom keep the steel drums looping. The Japan corner still runs deep: Sumiko Yamagata's Flying, the Central Asian Synthesizers cassette, and Final Fantasy X: House Grooves, plus Xzibit's 40 Dayz & 40 Nightz for the West Coast heads.

Fresh from September 11

Maggot Brain's analog campaign still covers every listener: the 45 RPM 2xLP, the CD, and the gold cassette. Hiroshi Sato's Grundman-cut pair, Aqua and Future File, keeps floating out the door, and Jill Scott's debut holds the neo-soul corner. Madeon's Victory deluxe still comes with the 20-page booklet, the Osibisa four-pack still brings the sunshine (Welcome Home, Ojah Awake, Black Magic Night, African Flight), and Paul Ngozi's unearthed Zamrock session keeps finding the fuzz heads. SOTC II remains the month's wildest ride, both Guaraldi Peanuts pressings are still smart early buys (It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown and the 60th anniversary A Charlie Brown Christmas), and Zara Larsson's Midnight Sun: Girls Trip runs 20 tracks deep on yellow and pink vinyl or CD.

Holding strong from August

Jungle's Sunshine on desert peach makes a fitting companion to the Leon Bridges album their producers helped build, and Mike D's Thank You keeps moving on clear vinyl and CD.

That's September: anniversaries with real weight, debuts with real teeth, and a wall of records that refuses to sit still. Come flip through it all at 4 Thacher St in the North End, or shop the full September 25, 2026 collection online. Four or more new albums takes 10% off automatically at checkout.

It's all in GOOD TASTE.