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New Album Releases & Arrivals September 4, 2026

The first Friday of September is a strange and good one. Ecca Vandal made her second album in a friend's childhood bedroom in Melbourne with no internet in the house, and it sounds like it. Massive Attack broke a six-year silence by handing the microphone to Tom Waits. Angelo Badalamenti's Blue Velvet score turns forty, which means the partnership that gave us Twin Peaks is now old enough to be a period piece.

Underneath the headliners there is a 1977 Zambian album that only ever reached the test-press stage, a Cuban record at thirty, and a French remix project with a guest list of nothing but women. Everything below is in the September 4 collection.

There is also a roundup at the bottom of what else is on the shelf this week: MadVillainy in both pressings, Donuts on wax and disc, two Tatsuro Yamashita imports, and a Takanaka SHM-CD. Dig in.

Angelo Badalamenti - Blue Velvet (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (40th Anniversary) Vinyl LP

The score that started everything. Lynch and Badalamenti met on Blue Velvet in 1986 and stayed together for the next three decades, and you can already hear the whole vocabulary here: strings that swell a half-step further than comfort allows, a melody that seems to be remembering something rather than stating it. Forty years on, Varese Sarabande gives it a proper anniversary pressing, on indie exclusive silver or standard black. Street date: September 4.

Why it's worth purchasing

  • The first Lynch and Badalamenti collaboration, and the template for everything after it
  • Anniversary reissue with an indie exclusive color you will not find at the chains
  • Pairs directly with the Twin Peaks score we keep on the soundtrack shelf

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

Made fast, on purpose. Beyonce came off filming Dreamgirls, booked studio time, and cut most of B'Day in a couple of weeks with a room full of producers competing against each other in real time. That urgency is the whole record: the horns are sharp, the drums are impatient, and nothing sits still long enough to get polished. Twenty years later it is the one people come back to. Double LP on 180g, street date September 4.

Why it's worth purchasing

  • Twentieth anniversary pressing, 2xLP on 180g
  • The album that produced "Deja Vu," "Ring the Alarm," "Upgrade U," and "Irreplaceable"
  • Recorded in roughly three weeks, and it still sounds like it in the best way

See it here.

Bob Azzam & The Great Expectation - Bob Azzam & The Great Expectation (self-titled) (Fire Orange Color) Vinyl LP

A 1969 one-off from the Egyptian-born bandleader better known for continental pop, here backed by a group with a much heavier idea of what a rhythm section is for. Diggers have chased this one for its breaks for years. Real Gone gives it a fire orange pressing and, finally, an easy way to hear it. Street date: September 4.

Why it's worth purchasing

  • Reissued properly rather than bootlegged, on colored vinyl
  • A genuine oddity: continental pop instincts colliding with fuzz and heavy drums
  • One for the crate diggers and the psych shelf alike

Grab it here.

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

Recorded in six days at EGREM in Havana, with Ry Cooder producing and a cast of musicians who had mostly been retired for years: Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzalez, Omara Portuondo, Eliades Ochoa. It became the record that introduced a generation to son cubano, and it holds up because nobody involved was performing nostalgia. They were just playing. Pearl double LP for the thirtieth.

Why it's worth purchasing

  • 2xLP anniversary pressing on pearl vinyl
  • Six days, live in the room, almost no overdubs
  • A cornerstone of our jazz and world sections both

Pick it up here.

C2C - Tetra Vinyl LP

Four turntablists from Nantes who spent years winning competitions and then made a record that sounds nothing like a scratch showcase. Tetra is guest-stacked, genre-hopping, and built on the idea that four pairs of hands on four decks can be a band rather than a stunt. Back on vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing

  • The French crew's debut, and still their statement piece
  • A deep guest list across hip-hop, soul, and electronic
  • Turntablism used as composition instead of as a trick

Find it here.

Ecca Vandal - Looking For People To Unfollow Vinyl LP

Nine years after her debut, Ecca Vandal disappeared, then came back with this. She recorded most of it with bassist and co-producer Richie "Kid Not" Buxton in his childhood bedroom in Melbourne, a house with no internet, and the record carries that isolation as a sound: seventeen tracks in forty-one minutes, punk and hip-hop shoved into the same room, screaming one bar and floating the next. South African-born, raised by Sri Lankan Tamil refugee parents, based in Melbourne, and finally sounding like nobody else. Street date: September 4, on Bathroom Blue or black.

Why it's worth purchasing

  • Her second album, and the first in nine years
  • Singles "Bleach," "Molly," and "Cruising To Self Soothe" are already out, so you know the temperature
  • Seventeen songs, forty-one minutes, no wasted space anywhere in it

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra - Promises (5th Anniversary Abiogenesis Blue/Green Color) Vinyl LP

Nine movements built on one repeating seven-note figure, with Sam Shepherd on keys, the LSO underneath, and Pharoah Sanders playing some of the most tender saxophone of his life on what turned out to be his last album. Five years on it has only grown. Colored anniversary pressing.

Why it's worth purchasing

  • Sanders' final record, and a fitting one
  • One figure, nine movements, and it never once feels repetitive
  • Sits between jazz and electronic without picking a side

See it here.

Kylie Minogue - Fever (180g) Vinyl LP

The reinvention record. Kylie had been making pop for well over a decade when Fever arrived in 2001 and reset the whole proposition around clean disco-house and a vocal that sits back in the mix rather than pushing. "Can't Get You Out of My Head" is the obvious entry point and the rest of the album earns its company. 180g import.

Why it's worth purchasing

  • 180g pressing, imported, new to our racks this week
  • The album that turned Kylie from a pop singer into a dance-floor institution
  • Late-period Stock Aitken Waterman finally left behind for something colder and better

Grab a copy.

Linkin Park - Reanimation Vinyl LP

Hybrid Theory handed to the underground and taken apart. Aceyalone, Black Thought, Pharoahe Monch, Chali 2na, Evidence, Jonathan Davis, and Kutmasta Kurt all show up, and the result is stranger and more interesting than the phrase "remix album" suggests. New to our shelves, on double vinyl.

Why it's worth purchasing

  • 2xLP, and new to the GTR catalog this week
  • A guest list that reads like a Rawkus and Stones Throw crossover
  • The rare remix record that actually reimagines instead of decorating

Find it here.

Madeon - Victory (Deluxe Edition) (Opaque Red Color) Vinyl LP

Hugo Leclercq has been building the same maximal, hyper-detailed French pop since he was a teenager, and Victory is the most confident version of it. The deluxe edition stretches it out on opaque red. Imported.

Why it's worth purchasing

  • Deluxe edition on opaque red vinyl, imported from France
  • Pop songwriting with electronic production that never buries the tune
  • One of the few dance records this year that works at home and on a floor

Pick it up here.

Massive Attack & Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground (Random Red, White and Blue Color) Vinyl 12"

Waits accepted the invitation years ago, sent the track, and waited. It is Massive Attack's first new music since the Eutopia EP in 2020 and Waits' first recording since Bad As Me in 2011, with his son Casey adding vocals. The B-side, "The Fly," is a Waits spoken-word piece that exists only on the vinyl. The pressing itself is the other story: an EcoSonic edition made from recycled PET rather than PVC, in a recycled paper sleeve, mixed at random across red, white and blue. Massive Attack are donating profits from the vinyl to the ACLU and the US Immigrant Defense Project. Street date: September 4.

Why it's worth purchasing

  • The first Massive Attack release in six years, and Waits' first in fifteen
  • The B-side is vinyl-only, so the record is the only way to hear "The Fly"
  • 180g EcoSonic pressing, a genuine step change in how a record gets made

See it here.

Metro Area - Metro Area (self-titled) (15th Anniversary Edition) Vinyl LP

Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani spent the early 2000s making deep house that sounded like it had been dug out of a 1981 disco vault, and this compilation of their singles is as close to perfect as the style gets. Not one wasted bar across three records. Anniversary 3xLP.

Why it's worth purchasing

  • 3xLP on Environ, collecting the run that made their name
  • Deep house built from live bass, real drums, and enormous patience
  • The record to hand anyone who thinks house music is repetitive

Grab it here.

Paul Ngozi - Heavy Metal: Live! Nairobi International Casino! Vinyl LP

This one only ever reached the test-press stage in 1977 and then sat in a vault for nearly fifty years. Ngozi led the Ngozi Family, one of the defining Zamrock groups, and is credited with inventing the kalindula sound; Chrissy Zebby Tembo is on this one too. The fuzz is thick, the rhythm section keeps a foot in funk, and the Zambian melodic instinct keeps pulling it sideways off the obvious rock route. Now-Again licensed it directly from both estates. First commercial release, ever.

Why it's worth purchasing

  • Never commercially released until now, from a scene worth knowing
  • Now-Again has been doing this Zamrock work properly since 2010
  • Files next to WITCH and Amanaz in imported goods

Find it here.

Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Part II (Blank Tape Edition) Cassette

Sixteen years on from the purple tape, the sequel gets a cassette designed to look like the hand-labeled blanks that actually carried this music around in the first place. A nice joke, and a nice object.

Why it's worth purchasing

  • Cassette pressing styled after the mixtape-era blanks
  • The sequel that had no business being as good as it is
  • One of the better-looking things in our hip-hop section right now

Pick it up here.

Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun: Girls Trip

Larsson took Midnight Sun apart and rebuilt every track with an all-women guest list: PinkPantheress, Kehlani, Shakira, Tyla, JT, Madison Beer, Emilia, Bambii, Margo XS, and Robyn, who turns up on "Puss Puss" like a passing of the torch. Twenty tracks total, the original album plus ten reimagined versions. The double LP is yellow and pink with a poster; there is also a CD. Street date: September 4.

Why it's worth purchasing

  • Twenty tracks: the whole original album plus ten rebuilds
  • A remix record with actual ideas, in the Brat and It's Completely Different lineage
  • 2xLP on yellow and pink with a 24 by 36 inch poster included

Still Landing This Week

These were in last week's post and are on the shelf now, so here they are without the retelling.

Also In the Racks This Week

A few things worth pulling out while you are here.

That is the first week of September: a bedroom punk record from Melbourne, two legends trading a protest song, Lynch and Badalamenti at forty, and a Zambian album that waited half a century for someone to press it properly.

Browse the full September 4 collection for all of it. Grab four or more new albums and 10% comes off automatically at checkout, and orders over $65 of new records ship free within the U.S. via Media Mail.

Or come see us at 4 Thacher St in Boston's North End and let The Taste Makers put something in your hands. It's all in GOOD TASTE.

Coty Smith