Teenage Fanclub's thirteenth studio album keeps their guitar-led, hook-laden songwriting intact while adding church organ and synths. The title reads like a pun on whether to keep dreaming after all these years. Out on Merge in October.
Teenage Fanclub
Do Not Dare To Dream
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THEE MICHELLE GUN ELEPHANT
THEE 30TH (7inch Box)
Marking the band’s 30th-anniversary "THEE 30TH" project, this box gathers eight 7-inch singles including "Sekai no Owari." A must for fans of the film Aoi Haru, it distills the meeting of Japanese rock and cinema at the turn of the millennium.
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Kimiko Kasai With Herbie Hancock
Butterfly
Recorded in Tokyo in 1979, Kimiko Kasai's collaboration with Herbie Hancock was long a rarity as a Japan-only release, until Be With Records' first official reissue sent collectors into a frenzy. Backed by a Headhunters-caliber band, it closes with a stunning cover of Stevie Wonder's "As." This 2026 repress is 180g with an obi.
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Angelo Badalamenti
Blue Velvet OST (40th Anniversary Edition)
David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti's first collaboration on 1986's Blue Velvet, and their first meeting with singer Julee Cruise. This 40th-anniversary edition restores the original 14-track sequence in a rainbow foil sleeve — the first official reissue since both men's passing, and one of cinema's most revered scores.
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Mad Professor
Cuts & Dubs - Volume One
England’s storied ARIWA label was founded by legendary producer Mad Professor in 1980. This compilation gathers 12 lesser-known dub gems, from "H2SO4" to "Only One God" with Jah Shaka, closing on the reggae-soul-boogie fusion "Can You Feel It." Sleeve by Trevor Jackson, released via TEST PRESSING.
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ゆうらん船 & Ålborg
The other day,
A first collaboration between Japanese indie bands Yuransen and Ålborg, this 7-inch split holds three co-written songs. A-side "Skagen," named for Denmark's northernmost town, paints a vast Nordic calm; B-side "Accord" threads banjo through a gentle melancholy. Out on KAKUBARHYTHM.
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ZENA is the new project of Kokoroko keyboardist Yohan Kebede and British bassist Menelik, fresh off a Taipei show. Built on lo-fi electronic beats, it draws on the spirit of Ethiopian jazz pioneers like Hailu Mergia and Mulatu Astatke, folding in alternative R&B, trip-hop, and downtempo for a hazy, exotic contemporary sound. Out on Brownswood Recordings.