weekly flavor

The first Friday of November brings the holidays early: Sufjan Stevens' Worst Christmas Ever! on Rudolph red and the Spice Girls' 30th anniversary singles box. Behind them, a Japan wall two shelves deep, Ron Trent's new double album leading a Rush Hour house section, Evanescence's Open Door at twenty, The Avalanches back in print and the Menace II Society soundtrack on 180g. All new, all sealed, all in GOOD TASTE.

The last Friday of October collects the whole month: Nine Inch Nails rebuilt as industrial techno, a new Queens of the Stone Age, Sleep's first record in eight years, DIIV with A. G. Cook, Mac Miller's Divine Feminine at ten, all three Hole albums, the Dinner Party supergroup and a six-deep Takanaka wall, with every earlier October arrival still in the racks below. All new, all sealed, all in GOOD TASTE.

Anniversary week: Back to Black at twenty with demos and a full live set, The Black Parade at twenty on three pressings, Life Is Peachy at thirty and Organized Konfusion's debut at thirty-five. Anderson .Paak and Cordae share a crown, two OutKast classics land on marble, Pete Rock opens the address book, and cosmic disco, street funk and horror punk round out the racks. All new, all sealed, all in GOOD TASTE.

This Friday builds in walls: a Jay-Z wall with Reasonable Doubt at thirty and The Blueprint at twenty-five, a Rocktober wall of Joni Mitchell, Motorhead, Pretenders and ZZ Top in brick-and-mortar colors, and a Japan wall running five Studio Ghibli scores deep with Takanaka live at Budokan beside them. Fontaines D.C. and The Avalanches lead the new releases, and two splattered horror soundtracks arrive just in time for the season. All new, all sealed, all in GOOD TASTE.

This week runs on extremes: JPEGMAFIA demolishes genre across twenty-five tracks while Cameron Winter sits alone at a Carnegie Hall piano, and Type O Negative's October Rust returns as a picture disc in the only month it should. Remi Wolf passes microphones around the kitchen, Robyn unifies Body Talk at last, Joey Valence and Brae land three albums at once, and the Japan corner runs from Sato to Yoshimura. All new, all sealed, all in GOOD TASTE.

This week the canon gets rebuilt: Rubber Soul remixed from the 1965 four-tracks in five formats, Lex Records reinterpreted by Boards of Canada and Kevin Shields, Goblin re-cutting Tenebre, and Amyl and The Sniffers replaying their catalog as country. Johnny Marr, Victoria Monet, Tinashe, and Larry June bring the new blood, with boogie grail Logg and a lost New York disco private press in the deep end. All new, all sealed, all in GOOD TASTE.

September goes out counting anniversaries: B'Day at twenty, Buena Vista Social Club at thirty, Plantasia at fifty, and Alice in Chains' MTV Unplugged finally on vinyl. Leon Bridges goes coastal with Jungle's producers, KNEECAP's Irish-language debut hits wax, King Gizzard presses a live set onto a skull, and the DC hardcore shelf doubles down, plus everything still in the racks from the month's earlier drops. All new, all sealed, all in GOOD TASTE.

This Friday is about names: Miley drops hers for a fuzzed-up tenth album, Orville Peck puts the story behind the mask on record, Beck reunites his Sea Change band, and Chance The Rapper finally presses Coloring Book on gold vinyl. Add beabadoobee at her heaviest, a Carly Rae Jepsen double album, Endtroducing at thirty, all three Hole albums on 180g, and a three-pressing Drive soundtrack wave. All new, all sealed, all in GOOD TASTE.