Wednesday, July 22, 2026 • Vinyl Finds from Around the World
KEXP Live
Quebec's mysterious duo Angine De Poitrine sweep listeners up in borderless psychedelia and hypnotic, repeating melodic lines while keeping their identities hidden. Their breakout KEXP Live session is reissued here as LP + CD, putting everyone in the room.
Don't Tap The Glass
Tyler, The Creator drops another album out of nowhere with "Don't Tap The Glass," extending his recent streak of playful, rhythm-driven experiments. The vinyl edition arrives this week.
WORKS -THE BEST OF TRF
TRF's first best-of, collecting all the hit singles from their Tetsuya Komuro-produced heyday — from "EZ DO DANCE" to "CRAZY GONNA CRAZY" — distilling the golden age of '90s J-dance-pop, now reissued as a 3LP set.
summer film
kurayamisaka have always sung of loss, farewell, and summer's end. Following their acclaimed debut, the band offers the 7" single "summer film" in summer 2026: the A-side floats Sachi Naito's voice through a thick wall of guitar, while guitarist Shotaro Shimizu takes the mic on the B-side, mirroring the searing, blurred memories of youth.
TOWN BEAT
KIRINJI quietly released their new album "TOWN BEAT" early this year, gathering nine tracks including guest vocals from Tomomi Oda and a mabanua remix. The refined arrangements and aesthetic recall Keiichi Tomita's layered elegance, now issued on limited colored vinyl.
かなかも／タイムマシーン
With lyrics by illustrator Ichio Otsuka, famed for character design on NHK's children's show "Miitsuketa!," these two songs draw inspiration from the welcome mascot of Joetsu-Myoko Station. The A-side carries an innocent, nursery-rhyme country warmth, while the B-side "Time Machine" is a brand-new track heard only on this 7".
Different When It's Silent
Tricky's fifteenth studio album, and his first full record under his own name in six years. His deep low end here turns sparser and more ethereal — spacious harmonic silences, round full bass, and band-driven depth — trip-hop made for quiet nights.
Beauty
Ryuichi Sakamoto's 1989 "Beauty" returns as a 2LP set, expanding the Okinawan themes of Neo Geo and gathering the likes of Brian Wilson, Robert Wyatt, Arto Lindsay, and Youssou N'Dour, while blending Korean and Chinese instrumentation. Over 35 years on, it remains one of the most global, borderless-minded works of his career.
Led by the late Hideki Yoshimura, Sapporo's bloodthirsty butchers deeply influenced key Japanese bands like NUMBER GIRL. Their 1996 fourth album "kocorono," a concept work tracing a year's shifting moods, is hailed as a landmark of Japanese rock. This first vinyl pressing of the 2010 complete edition adds "January" on 180g double vinyl.