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Thursday, May 7, 2026 • Vinyl Finds from Around the World
HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: The Tour (Live)
Billie Eilish's tour live album pressed on 100% recycled material, limited one-time pressing. The accompanying film was co-directed by James Cameron and Billie Eilish — a collector's artifact with genuine on-stage presence.
Duo Concert Frankfurt 1986
A 50th-anniversary release from Dutch jazz institution Timeless, making this 1986 Frankfurt duo performance by Sanders and Hicks available on vinyl for the first time. They glide through Coltrane standards like 'Giant Steps' and 'Central Park West' with grace spanning tenderness, swing, and transcendence. Music On Vinyl 180g pressing.
Timeless presents From The Archives: 1974-1994 - Antal Rush Hour Store
The second of Timeless's 50th-anniversary releases, curated by Rush Hour founder Antal as a DJ's love letter to the label's 1974–1994 catalog. Features Art Blakey, Pharoah Sanders, Gary Bartz, Woody Shaw, and more — a double-LP tribute to a golden era of jazz. Music On Vinyl 180g pressing.
Home Safe
Parisian producer Crayon's debut album on Erased Tapes, featuring FKJ, ELIZA, Rhye, anaiis, Yamê, and Arthur Teboul. Soul, folk, jazz, hip-hop, and electronics handled with equal ease — the collaborators make the sum considerably larger than its parts.
その前夜 - Live At 八王子 Alone
A rare document of the Tokyo free jazz scene, capturing the mid-1970s migration of free music to suburban venues. The Alone club in Hachioji held only twenty people — a spiritual loft — and this live recording by Shudan Sokai stands as a monument to that era, made before Alone closed in September 1977.
Naruto: Best Collection
Naruto best-of compilation on limited white vinyl, pressed to just 1000 copies. Features iconic opening and ending themes by ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION, FLOW, Akeboshi, and more — a sonic time capsule for the anime generation.
Yaygara
Debut album from Sosyete '25 — formed by Kit Sebastian's Merve Erdem alongside Glenn Fallows and Paul Elliott — out on Tru Thoughts. Psychedelic Middle Eastern guitar over relentless dancefloor grooves; 'yaygara' means 'uproar' in Turkish, and the album lives up to the name.
Ese Día Va A Llegar
The definitive Argentine Bossa album from Buenos Aires guitarist Agustín Pereyra Lucena, now reissued by Far Out Recordings. Warm guitar and light rhythms meet Jobim and João Donato covers; the seven-minute 'Guayabas' — Rhodes piano and flute — is pure South American sensuality.
Cory Wong & The Green Screen Band
Cory Wong's cult digital project The Green Screen Band gets its first-ever vinyl release for RSD 2026, with fresh vinyl-specific mastering. Pressed on 'Coca-Cola bottle green × blue marble' transparent vinyl — quantity unknown, brace for the scramble.
Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches
Happy Mondays' definitive Madchester statement, produced by Paul Oakenfold, weaving indie rock and Acid House into one inimitable groove. The 2026 edition is mastered from the original Factory Records tapes; red vinyl option available.
DON'T LIKE 我鍾意
Hong Kong post-punk outfit N.Y.P.D. 南洋派對's long-awaited new record. The street energy of Tai Kok Tsui, Cantonese nanyin folk tradition crashing into post-punk, now with 90s British rave beats à la Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy thrown into the mix. Don't sleep on this one twice.
Mount Zero
Australian newcomers Swapmeet recall the inexplicable elegance of 90s lo-fi noise acts like 18th Dye. They reportedly stacked dozens or hundreds of tracks for each song, then stripped them down to the clearest possible core — a reductive process that turns first loves, first heartbreaks, and first disasters into something like a documentary about youth.
For Love of Grace & the Hereafter
Iceage return to Silence Studio in Sweden — the same room that birthed 'Plowing Into the Field of Love' — for a record Elias Rønnenfelt describes as 'direct, urgent, and raw.' In an era of over-refinement, they've gone back to find the most immediate rock impulse. It sounds exactly like the Iceage you needed.
Eternal Child
Avishai Cohen's new trio album, titled by the late Chick Corea in tribute to their deep mentor-student bond. The cover shows Avishai at age four; the music pairs him with 22-year-old prodigy Itay Simhovich on piano and legendary drummer Jeff Ballard — a return to jazz's melodic and rhythmic essentials.
Japanese experimental group goat returns with this modern dance score for choreographer Cindy Van Acker, led by Kojiro Hino and released on France's Latency. Surgical minimal percussion fused with Autechre's nervous system, Miles Davis's discipline, and No Wave abrasion — post-production by Rashad Becker guarantees the spatial clarity.