Tuesday, September 29, 2026 • Vinyl Finds from Around the World
THE NOVEMBERS
DAIZAWA RECORDS marks its 25th anniversary with a five-month run of vinyl reissues, and THE NOVEMBERS' turn has finally come. The shop singles out this 2007 debut: six songs holding literary, unguarded lyrics, jagged walls of noise and a lot of emotional tension. Comes with a Japanese OBI strip and a label bonus sticker.
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Part of DAIZAWA RECORDS' 25th-anniversary reissue run: THE NOVEMBERS' 2008 first full-length, pressed to vinyl for the first time. It catches this Japanese alternative rock band's early sound taking shape. Japanese OBI and label bonus sticker included.
Misstopia
The third of the four DAIZAWA 25th-anniversary reissues, 2010's Misstopia stretches the pull between noise and melody further than anything else in the band's early catalogue. Japanese OBI and label bonus sticker included.
To (melt into)
The last of the four DAIZAWA 25th-anniversary pressings, closing out this look back at THE NOVEMBERS' early trajectory. Japanese OBI, plus a label bonus sticker with every copy.
Dippin'
Hank Mobley's mid-60s benchmark joins Blue Note's audiophile Tone Poet series. The quintet — Lee Morgan on trumpet, Harold Mabern Jr. on piano, Larry Ridley on bass, Billy Higgins on drums — opens with the deeply funky 'The Dip', while the Brazilian-tinged 'Recado Bossa Nova' threads Latin rhythm through hard bop without forcing either. Produced by Joe Harley, cut by Kevin Gray from the original analogue tapes, pressed 180g at RTI.
One Battle After Another (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Jonny Greenwood's sixth score for Paul Thomas Anderson, written for the DiCaprio-led One Battle After Another. From There Will Be Blood to Phantom Thread, his film music has always stood on its own. Across 18 new pieces Greenwood plays piano, guitar, bass, percussion and Ondes Martenot, with Hugh Brunt conducting the London Contemporary Orchestra — classical rigour and a cold avant-garde edge held in real tension. The first vinyl run went for NT$1680; a UK price drop brings this 2LP to NT$1080.
Piano Collections FINAL FANTASY XV -夜に満ちる律べ-
The Final Fantasy XV piano collection reaches vinyl for the first time, carrying all ten tracks from the CD. The clear pressing plays off the moonlit night scene on the sleeve, and from 'Somnus' through 'APOCALYPSIS NOCTIS' Yoko Shimomura's themes come through unusually clear on solo piano.
Submarine
Written after María Zardoya and Josh Conway's breakup, Submarine tells heartbreak in a soft, restrained, quietly beautiful register. This is the half blue / half clear pressing — the shop's last call before it ships, with neither the price nor the quantity coming back.
Love & Tears
That hypnotic mass dance of British schoolboys in the 'STORM' video came from GENER8ION, the duo of French producer Surkin and film director Romain Gavras. Their debut is set in a near-future 2034 and runs rap, techno, house, pop, rock and film score together, with guests including 070 Shake, Yung Lean and Foals' Yannis Philippakis. The title track's video is three unbroken minutes of Charlize Theron alone — minimal and impossible to look away from, the opposite of 'STORM''s spectacle. The LP comes in a die-cut sleeve with a printed inner.
祭の幻想 (Hideo Shiraki In Fiesta)
A landmark of Japanese jazz, weaving Japanese melody into modal jazz through unusual koto arrangements. Sixty-odd years on it returns in a mono Pure Vinyl edition, with 'In Fiesta', 'Five Spot After Dark' and 'Cherokee' among the tracks.
Resident Evil (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
The Resident Evil score arrives in full: 29 cues, 44 minutes 26 seconds. Hays Holladay and Ryan Holladay perform and produce throughout, chasing the film's chaos and dread, with the running order tracking the plot and composer notes printed inside. Pressed as a red 2LP.
Another record called City Pop, from an entirely different world: Beirut. Berlin's Habibi Funk, long-time diggers of rare Middle Eastern and North African grooves, gathers ten recordings that circulated on privately dubbed cassettes during Lebanon's civil war, from the late 1970s into the 1980s. Short-lived bands copied tapes at home and passed them among friends and players — Andromeda's album may exist in fewer than 20 copies. The title nods to Japanese city pop's freedom to fuse anything, except this music was made under shellfire: some songs sound like escape, others face the war head-on.