Monday, June 29, 2026 • Vinyl Finds from Around the World
A Wave That Will Never Break
Fifteen years on, Manchester's WU LYF return with their second album. Quietly self-released and deliberately kept off streaming, it still crashed into the UK chart at No. 13. Produced with the legendary Sonic Boom (ex-Spacemen 3), it keeps the singer's signature ragged howl and church-organ swell — vast, gospel-like indie and post-rock built for total catharsis.
Stings
Kamaal Williams' Stings, whose vinyl pressing was long delayed, is finally available to order. Hip-hop beats, acid jazz and chamber strings melt into one — the string arrangements by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson make it play like a film without dialogue.
Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer
After teaming with MF DOOM and Ghostface Killah, Czarface now squares off with Frankie Pulitzer — an alias of Tom Hardy, though whether it's really him remains a mystery. Guest verses from Busta Rhymes, Method Man and El-P add heavy East Coast colour to one of the year's most anticipated hip-hop releases.
Celeste Complete Sound Collection
Lena Raine's complete score for Celeste, reissued as a 6LP coloured-vinyl box. Each of the six records gets its own gold-foil sleeve, with liner notes from Raine and the story behind the Celeste: B-Sides remixes, all in a foil-stamped hard case with cover art by Nina Matsumoto. Electronic music for climbing a mountain — anxious and tender at once.
Nefertiti
Recorded in 1967, the last acoustic album by Miles Davis' Second Great Quintet. After this, jazz entered another era — Nefertiti is the final full stop before the turn. Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams and Miles, captured together one last time. The Music On Vinyl 180g pressing is the stable, best-value way in.
Evangelion Finally
Restock — Evangelion Finally on 2LP pink-splatter vinyl. 'A Cruel Angel's Thesis' is here, alongside 15 Eva vocal tracks sung by Yoko Takahashi and Megumi Hayashibara, spanning the TV series and the 2.0 film. The most complete vocal collection the franchise has.
Ninja Tune reissues this 25th-anniversary landmark on double LP and orange vinyl for the first time. Norway's eight-piece Jaga Jazzist, named BBC's best jazz album of 2002, weaves trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, vibraphone and Rhodes through electronic beats and glitch — big-band jazz and electronica fused into a sound no one had made before.