Saturday, June 27, 2026 • Vinyl Finds from Around the World
Ori and the Blind Forest
Gareth Coker's score for the beloved platformer Ori and the Blind Forest paints the forest's melancholy and wonder in delicate orchestration and choir. This 180g 2LP gathers 32 tracks including previously unreleased cues, wrapped in a gold-foil spine sleeve with cover art by Nicole Gustafsson.
Hollow Knight Piano Collections
Officially released by Materia Collective, this set reimagines 15 classic Hollow Knight themes as solo piano — composer Christopher Larkin and Team Cherry joined by arranger David Peacock and pianist Augustine Mayuga Gonzales. It comes with a matte-coated 24-page art book featuring illustrations by Nise.
VOICES
Miho Morikawa's 1992 best-of, reissued on vinyl for the first time as a 2LP. It collects 'POSITIVE' (the Ranma ½ ending theme) and 'BLUE WATER,' the theme to Hideaki Anno's Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water and one of her signature songs, drawing on three albums from 1990–1992 plus three single-only tracks.
SAHARA
The sole album from Rie Murakami, a cult favorite abroad in recent years, reissued on clear-orange vinyl for Record Store Day Japan 2026. Steeped in jazz and inspired by Billie Holiday, she works with producer Masanori Sasaji and members of MARIAH to fold jazz into New Wave and urban fusion — a cool, polished 80s city-pop gem to rival Tomoko Aran's Fuyū Kūkan.
Radiant
A 2024 album from Kyoto's new-generation rapper Daichi Yamamoto, produced start to finish by the late JJJ and now finally pressed to vinyl. Its nine tracks circle self-reflection, identity and memory — 'Glass Kyoto' weaves the city, reincarnation and literary imagination into 'a beauty only those who understand Japanese can feel.'
Lost Weekend
Phoebe Bridgers is known for a rare intimacy in contemporary music, and won armfuls of awards alongside supergroup boygenius. This new 2LP, Lost Weekend, carries forward her gift for language; it's due August 14.
NieR: Become as Gods
Released by US game-music label Materia Collective, Rozen and Reven rework Keiichi Okabe and Monaca's original NieR:Automata score under official license. This 2021 set, Become as Gods, honors the post-apocalyptic masterpiece in sweeping orchestral and electronic arrangements.
NieR: Glory to Mankind
Rozen and Reven's first NieR:Automata tribute album, released by Materia Collective in 2017. Drawing on Keiichi Okabe and Monaca's soundtrack, it re-voices the game's unforgettable melodies in intricate arrangements.
Dynasty Warriors: Origins - Original Game Soundtrack
Composer Masato Koike's score for Dynasty Warriors: Origins, issued as a limited deluxe 3LP on colored vinyl (LITA Exclusive variant). Its sweeping battlefield orchestration and electronic drive recapture the epic clash of the Three Kingdoms.
Wake Up
A first-ever vinyl pressing of MC HotDog's classic Wake Up, home to Taiwanese hip-hop landmarks like 'I Love Taimei,' 'My Own Way' and 'Rookie King.' Less posturing, more sincerity — every track a classic among classics.
Toy Story 5 (Original Soundtrack)
Randy Newman's score for Toy Story 5, pressed as a 2LP picture disc. It features 'I Knew It, I Knew You' sung by Taylor Swift, with the rest of the tracklist still to be revealed; arriving September.
Following the acclaimed 2017 set Mindanoo Mistiru / Gold From Wax, Belgian label Sub Rosa returns to Ethiopia in the summer of 1971. Anthropologists Ragnar Johnson and Ralph Harrisson captured everything from the urban music of Addis Ababa to rural traditions built on the masenko fiddle and krar lyre — tavern songs, divination chants, laments and hymns. This deluxe 2LP adds 12 previously unreleased recordings, the most complete document of Ethiopia's astonishing musical breadth.