Dream Pop / Slowcore / Folk 2026
Tokiyo Ooto & Orhythmo
Play Nursery Rhymes and Children's Songs
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Thursday, May 28, 2026 • Vinyl Finds from Around the World
Miss.G
Naoko Gushima's debut and arguably the gateway into her sweetly melancholy catalogue. Reissued on high-quality Pure Vinyl for her 30th anniversary, the 1996 album holds the bossa-tinged "Taifu no Yoru" and the urban-groove classic "Candy" — staples of the City Pop revival worth picking up while available.
Quiet Emotion
Part of Naoko Gushima's 30th-anniversary Pure Vinyl reissue series. Quiet Emotion (1997) extends the warm urban-mellow palette of her debut and has been re-canonized as an essential entry by the ongoing City Pop revival.
mellow medicine
The third in Gushima's 30th-anniversary Pure Vinyl reissue trio. Mellow Medicine (1999) is her most softly-lit late-'90s set — hazy, grown-up urban balladry that the current City Pop wave has lifted back into the spotlight.
Lupin the Third Original Soundtrack
First-ever colour-vinyl reissue of Yuji Ohno's Lupin III soundtracks, marking the anime's 55th anniversary and honouring the late composer. This first soundtrack volume — pressed on Clear Red vinyl — holds the immortal "Theme from Lupin III" alongside the jazz-funk, cinematic motifs that defined Japanese animation music.
Lupin the Third Original Soundtrack 2
Volume two of Yuji Ohno's Lupin III scores in its first colour-vinyl edition, pressed on Clear Pink as part of the 55th-anniversary trilogy reissue. Continues the swaggering jazz-funk and cinematic themes that secured Ohno's place among Japan's great composers.
Lupin the Third Original Soundtrack 3
The closing chapter of Yuji Ohno's Lupin III triple-reissue, on Clear Yellow vinyl. Rounds out the 55th-anniversary set with the most expansive jazz-funk arrangements he wrote for the franchise.
Sophie Zelmani
Stockholm singer-songwriter Sophie Zelmani's debut, recorded after a decade of bedroom songwriting that began when she was 14 and eventually led to a Sony Sweden deal. Quiet, acoustic, intimate — the unadorned guitar tone and girl-next-door voice carry the record. Reissued by MOV in a limited 1,000-copy blue-vinyl numbered edition.
DAYS OF CAT AND MUSIC, THE
Tokyo producer SUKISHA's fully self-made Days Of Cat And Music, The — his eleven-year musical diary with his beloved cat, in hip-hop, soul and jazz idioms. First-ever double-vinyl pressing sold out instantly; restock in June.
Possibly the most spectral release of the year. Osaka duo Tokiyo Ooto & Orhythmo — vocalist/guitarist Tokiyo and bassist orhythmo — follow up their 2024 debut with four tracks deepening the nursery-rhyme atmosphere into something more delicately hallucinatory. Opener "Hey Diddle Diddle" lurches in on warped tape; Tokiyo's translucent, uneasy voice turns the song into a dark lullaby for adults. Released by Osaka's EM Records.