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Cleveland Francis — Beyond The Willow Tree
Folk / Soul 2026

Cleveland Francis

Beyond The Willow Tree

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A heartbreakingly beautiful folk compilation tracing Cleveland Francis's life growing up under Southern segregation — a deep, soul-inflected voice over plain acoustic guitar. In the late '60s, while studying medicine and playing campuses and coffeehouses, he coined the term "Soulfolk" for music straddling both worlds, only to be overlooked by an industry bound by racial stereotypes: "If you were Black, you were supposed to play blues or soul... but I wanted to play folk." The 2LP collects his self-released 1970 album Follow Me in full (with covers of The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell), plus unreleased 1968 demos and a rare 7"-only track, restored from the original tapes by Michael Graves.


Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffalo Latin Beats (石川晶) — Dynamic Latin Exotic Sound
Latin Jazz / Jazz Funk / Japanese Jazz 1972

Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffalo Latin Beats (石川晶)

Dynamic Latin Exotic Sound

An explosive 1972 Latin-rock classic from legendary Japanese drummer Akira Ishikawa's Count Buffaloes, teamed with Latin-fusion pioneer Naoya Matsuoka. The pair boldly rework traditional rhythms from Cuba, Mexico, Brazil and Puerto Rico — from the Cuban folk standard "Guantanamera" to a Hammond-and-tenor-sax blaze through "O Barquinho" and a psychedelic funk take on Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man." Latin heat, jazz improvisation and raw rock drive in one package; original pressings fetch close to $200, and this reissue comes on yellow vinyl with an OBI.

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Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffaloes (石川晶) — Emergency (Selected from the Original Session Takes)
Jazz Funk / Japanese Jazz 1976

Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffaloes (石川晶)

Emergency (Selected from the Original Session Takes)

A Japanese jazz-funk masterpiece bursting with studio-floor immediacy. Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffaloes' Emergency was originally cut direct-to-disc, the signal running straight from the console to the lathe to capture every dynamic surge. This edition is more than a repress: the best performances were chosen from different original session takes and re-edited with modern DAW tools, offering another face of the record. Highlights include Hiromasa Suzuki's "YAMA-TO-MIZU," written for audio maker Sansui, and TAN TAN (Harumi Ohzora)'s limiter-free "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight," where every breath comes through.

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Suede — Coming Up (30th Anniversary Zoetrope Vinyl Edition)
Britpop / Alternative Rock 1996

Suede

Coming Up (30th Anniversary Zoetrope Vinyl Edition)

Suede's Coming Up gets a 30th-anniversary zoetrope vinyl edition. Not a standard picture disc: the album's iconic visuals are rendered as a sequence of animation frames, so when the record spins under a strobe or the right camera shutter, the artwork comes alive. A National Album Day limited release.

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Topu Lyo — quiet scenes from tokyo
Ambient / Modern Classical / Drone 2026

Topu Lyo

quiet scenes from tokyo

Korean-American cellist Topu Lyo scored Netflix's Kanye West documentary trilogy jeen-yuhs as half of the duo Live Footage, and more recently the Sundance-winning Soul Patrol. His debut solo album, released by German experimental label Faitiche, gathers sixteen short pieces recorded in his Tokyo apartment — solo cello and tape echo drifting between abstract drone and rhythmic pizzicato. At first driven to despair by the expressway outside his window, he came to hear the endless traffic as something like ocean waves, and began opening the balcony door by degrees to let it seep into the recordings, turning city noise into a hushed, entrancing ambient landscape.

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Kalia Vandever & Dave Harrington — Evergreen
Jazz / Electronic / Ambient 2026

Kalia Vandever & Dave Harrington

Evergreen

Trombonist Kalia Vandever — whose International Anthem album Mana earlier this year evoked Ryuichi Sakamoto's minimalist piano — teams up for the first time with DARKSIDE guitarist Dave Harrington, fusing jazz improvisation with electronics. Beyond the long, unfurling trombone lines are darker passages like "The Chase," a wall of guitar, drum machine and samples. Recorded in just three days in Los Angeles during a downpour, the album carries a rainy-day hush and dampness — faintly melancholy, yet tender and open.

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Kate Bollinger — Shop Girl
Indie Pop / Folk 2026

Kate Bollinger

Shop Girl

Kate Bollinger's music has been described as "clear as a freshwater lake, cool in its depths." This new EP, inspired by The Extraordinaires' rock opera Ribbons of War — a childhood favorite — is set inside a small boutique: opener "Dreams Don't Come True" brims with Lennon/McCartney-style retro pop, while the title track turns mundane shop-floor routines into a whimsical adventure. Sam France, Tim Bernardes and Alex Heaney contribute, and her sincere, dreamy delivery on "I Never Wanna Say Goodbye" recalls the first thrill of hearing Clairo.

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Rex Orange County — Dream Fatigue
Indie Pop / Bedroom Pop 2026

Rex Orange County

Dream Fatigue

Rex Orange County's new album, featuring collaborations with Daniel Caesar, Mustafa and Turnstile's Brendan Yates. He has turned diary-like lyrics into intimate global hits with over nine billion streams, quietly becoming one of his generation's most emotionally resonant everymen. Available on clear glitter and black vinyl.

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Queen — A Day At The Races
Rock / Hard Rock 1976

Queen

A Day At The Races

Queen's fifth studio album, released December 10, 1976, became the band's first US gold-certified album and later went platinum. It features "Somebody To Love," "Tie Your Mother Down" and the Japanese-sung "Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)." For its 50th anniversary it returns on blue marble vinyl.

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Various Artists — Les Misérables (40th Anniversary Edition)
Musical / Soundtrack 1985

Various Artists

Les Misérables (40th Anniversary Edition)

A 40th-anniversary edition of the Les Misérables cast recording on 3LP colored vinyl — a return to the enduring musical adapted from Victor Hugo's novel, a fixture since its 1985 London premiere.

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Morphine — Cocoon
Alternative Rock 2026

Morphine

Cocoon

Twenty-seven years after Mark Sandman's death comes a never-released Morphine album. The legendary alt-rock trio skipped guitars altogether — two-string slide bass, saxophone, drums and Sandman's low, languid voice forged a dark groove no one has replicated. Cocoon gathers late-'90s recordings Sandman had shelved, reassembled by producer Paul Q. Kolderie with original member Dana Colley re-recording saxophone. Eight tracks that land like a mysterious letter from the '90s, with liner notes by Hanif Abdurraqib.

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Ludwig Göransson — The Odyssey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Soundtrack / Orchestral 2026

Ludwig Göransson

The Odyssey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Ludwig Göransson's 3LP score for The Odyssey. The first pressing sold out on arrival and stock dried up overseas — even the planned September restock vanished — but a second batch is finally on the way.

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Various Artists — 仙劍奇俠傳四 Chinese Paladin 4 OST
Video Game Soundtrack 2007

Various Artists

仙劍奇俠傳四 Chinese Paladin 4 OST

The soundtrack to the 2007 classic RPG Chinese Paladin 4 (Legend of Sword and Fairy 4) comes to vinyl for the first time, newly remastered for the format and pressed as a 2LP on red-and-purple marble vinyl with 29 tracks.

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