Joe Kraemer's score for the fifth Mission: Impossible film, Rogue Nation. Drawing inspiration from John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith and Lalo Schifrin, Kraemer leans on 60s-era instrumentation to build a retro espionage sound.
Joe Kraemer
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
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Randy Newman
Toy Story: Songs To Infinity And Beyond
A 30th-anniversary Toy Story picture disc from Disney and Pixar, collecting Randy Newman's beloved songs in full — from 'You've Got a Friend in Me' to 'We Belong Together'. The most complete way back into the toy box.
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The Jesus and Mary Chain
Psychocandy
Without The Jesus and Mary Chain, there'd be no shoegaze and no noise pop. JAMC's 1985 debut bundled bubblegum pop inside a wall of feedback and rewrote a generation of guitar music. This 2025 Japanese CD edition adds translations of the original liner notes and bilingual lyrics.
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The Jesus and Mary Chain
Darklands
JAMC's 1987 follow-up sheds the feedback armor of Psychocandy in favor of cleaner guitars and more interior melody. This Japanese CD edition includes bilingual lyrics and translated liner notes.
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The Jesus and Mary Chain
Automatic
JAMC's 1989 third album leans into drum machines and synth bass, sharpening the Reid brothers' songwriting into something more direct — the home of 'Head On' and 'Blues from a Gun'.
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The Jesus and Mary Chain
Honey's Dead
JAMC's 1992 fourth LP opens with the double-dose feedback of 'Reverence' — one of the most natural blends of noise and dance rhythm the Reid brothers ever managed.
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The Jesus and Mary Chain
Stoned & Dethroned
JAMC's 1994 fifth album is nearly an acoustic record. With guests like Hope Sandoval and Shane MacGowan, peeling back the feedback exposes a softer, more weary kind of songwriting.
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The New Mastersounds
Live At La Cova
British jazz funk outfit The New Mastersounds' legendary 2005 live set Live At La Cova finally hits vinyl. The on-stage heat and improvisational sparks blow past the studio versions — comfortably alongside King Curtis or James Brown live records. The 8-minute 'Land Of Nod' live take is reason enough.
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a子 (Ako)
lovely moments
Red-haired Japanese singer-songwriter a子, known for her breathy delivery, gets her album lovely moments pressed to vinyl. A psychedelic urban-pop record bridging indie pop and alt-rock, it includes the Darwin's Incident ED 'Turn It Up' and the Uchuujin Muu Muu Season 2 OP 'MOVE MOVE'.
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mess/age
Umi / Dubmi
Kyoto duo mess/age cuts 'Umi' — from last year's mini cassette Ryokan — to a 7-inch. Khan Brown and OHHKI use an old Casiotone and karaoke machine to shape lo-fi bedroom-recording textures: side A is a midsummer haze, side B's 'Dubmi' floats further into dizzy dub. The cassette art was by munguni; this 7-inch swaps in a mysterious waitress portrait.
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Massage Attack
Massage Attack
Japanese oddball rock group Massage Attack's self-titled record. The cover collages four portrait photos with a hand-painted scrawl of the band name. One of the Japanese indie titles in Tokyobuybuydiary's latest restock.
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DJ Amir
Strata Records: The Sound of Detroit Volume 2
BBE keeps mining Detroit's legendary Strata Records, with DJ Amir curating a second volume. The compilation pulls more buried treasure from the city's Black-owned, artist-run jazz label.
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Don Cherry
Blue Lake
Following last year's Record Store Day UK reissue of Don Cherry's BYG-era Orient, its sister live recording Blue Lake finally returns. Originally released by Toho's Japanese BYG (never on French BYG) and pulled back after release for clearance issues. Captures Cherry stretching free jazz toward looser, more primal landscapes via his eastern and southern travels.
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The Bill Evans Trio
Waltz For Debby
Craft Recordings' OJC Series brings back Bill Evans' Waltz For Debby — long out of stock — fully analog mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and pressed at RTI on 180g. One of the best reissues of the eternal piano-trio touchstone.
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1619 Bad Ass Band
1619 Bad Ass Band
Mr Bongo reissues 1619 Bad Ass Band's lone self-titled LP, originally on TSG Records in 1976 — a legendary rare-groove holy grail that has eluded collectors and DJs for decades. Pure raw mid-70s underground funk and soul.
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Wu-Tang Clan
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
RCA reissues one of the 90s' most influential rap LPs at a more reasonable price. Wu-Tang's sample-rich palette and uncompromising style shaped Biggie, Jay-Z, Nas, Mobb Deep — and stayed legendary out of that NYC underground straight through to now. Black and yellow vinyl available.
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Floating Points
Mere Mortals
Deutsche Grammophon releases Floating Points' first complete ballet score, Mere Mortals. Built with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and his live synths and electronics, 14 movements stretch from fire and hope through Pandora's Jar to falling to earth — a new vocabulary for orchestral writing in the present.
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LA improvising quintet SML build off a jazz core with post-punk, Afrobeat and Krautrock — sharp, propulsive, and not far from labelmates Tortoise on International Anthem. Captured across three December 2025 nights at Zebulon, with two side-long uncut improvisations. Josh Johnson and Anna Butterss (both ETA IVtet) play; ETA IVtet's go-to engineer Bryce Gonzales mixes.