New Releases & Staff Picks - 11/13/26

STAFF PICKS 

DARIO - Land of Talk and Anna Butterss
JAKE -  Oruã, Female Gaze, and Ninajirachi
KIMBER - Menahan Street Band 
MARY - Radio Dept reissue 
ZACH - Radie Peat and Aesop Rock 
DREW - This Heat reissue
PAT- This Heat and Kali Malone

AESOP ROCK & BLOCKHEAD - Trouble Mountain CD/LP/CASS (Rhymesayers)   Nearly three decades after first forging one of underground hip-hop's most enduring creative partnerships, Aesop Rock and Blockhead reunite for Trouble Mountain, a new full-length meditation on escape, survival, and the strange terrain of everyday life. Inspired by the nostalgic promise of Poconos resort commercials that blanketed New York airwaves during their childhoods, the album imagines a fictional getaway where the search for reinvention proves just as disorienting as the reality left behind. Arriving as Aesop Rock's 13th studio album, Trouble Mountain finds his writing as inventive as ever - transforming family history, work, memory, and the absurd mechanics of modern life into vivid, deeply human reflections. Blockhead's production is equally vital, pairing the duo's unmistakable chemistry with lean, evolving soundscapes that feel both familiar and newly exploratory. Together, they revisit the themes that have connected their work since Labor Days: labor, alienation, and the enduring hope that there's somewhere else we'd rather be. Rather than offering an escape, Trouble Mountain asks why we're always searching for one-delivering one of the duo's most imaginative and resonant collaborations to date.

APHEX TWIN - Drukqs CD/LP [Reissue/2001] (Warp Records)  
Drukqs will be released on 30th October 2026 via Warp Records. Twenty-five years after it's original release, Warp Records reissues Aphex Twin's Drukqs on vinyl and CD. The release marks the first time in years the album has been available across physical formats and means every Aphex Twin album is once again in print on vinyl.

KIM DEAL - Live At The Barbican CD/LP (4AD)  
On March 1 2025, Kim Deal hosted a once-in-a-lifetime sold-out performance at London's historic Barbican, playing her acclaimed debut solo album Nobody Loves You More front-to-back for the first time, followed by special orchestrated renditions of songs from The Breeders' catalog and earlier solo work. The evening, culminating with a heartfelt standing ovation, was documented in full, released now as Live at the Barbican - a new live record mixed at Studio Black Box and mastered by Heba Kadry, out November 13. The recording finds Deal backed by a 25-piece ensemble including a band composed of Mando Lopez (The Breeders), Susan Voelz (Poi Dog Pondering), Lindsay Glover, Nick White (Phoebe Bridgers), Rob Bochnik (The Frames); special guest Raymond McGinley (Teenage Fanclub); and a dedicated orchestra with Shards choir. Released on limited edition Magenta Vinyl and CD, the live album is also accompanied by a live performance film.

LAND OF TALK - Lasts CD/LP (Saddle Creek)  
Over the 20 year history of Land of Talk, Lizzie Powell has drifted to and from music, always interrogating their role as an artist. Yet the music didn't stop: they heard songs in traffic and in birds chirping, in their downstairs neighbor's daily prayers and in the babble of children on the street, until reemerging with LASTS, an album that picks up where Land of Talk left off, wielding honesty, empathy, and righteous anger alike. LASTS is full of double meanings-both resilience and finality, acting as a noun and a verb. The overwhelming magnitude of global turmoil led Powell towards smaller, humane depictions of suffering and grief. As their parents became ill, they reflected on the last time a person might walk, might talk to a loved one. Yet watching their parents near the other side of life's arc also made them consider all they had survived across their own decades on this earth, their new songs channeling both gratitude and rage. I think of this record as a love letter to life, they say. LASTS songs travel through everything that has been on Powell's mind in these years: the sharp polarity of the beauty they see in their artist peers and the toxicity they see in the industry, the mortality of their parents (Funeral clothes have been packed a few times, they say of various close calls), the process of understanding their identity as a non-binary person. They forged ahead in hopes of communing with others who have experienced the same: Music is medicine for me, and I know that if this song helps me feel better, maybe someone else will feel heard and understood. Drawing upon all Land of Talk have been in two decades, LASTS documents the simple yet implausible act of survival.

ANNA BUTTERSS - Beginningless LP (Northern Spy Records)  
On Beginningless, Anna Butterss, John Raymond, and Ben Lumsdaine combine acoustic instruments and effects to create a nocturnal, neon landscape both grounded and otherworldly. Recorded live over two days in a Los Angeles studio, the album expands the trumpet-bass-drums format through shared intuition, fluid textures, and patient, elastic interplay. The music is entirely improvised, with little overdubbing or post-production: what you hear is essentially the sound of three musicians discovering the music together in the room, using pedals and processing as extensions of their instruments.

NINAJIRACHI - I Love My Computer LP (Many Hats) 
Nina Wilson, better known as Ninajirachi, is an Australian electronic producer who released her debut album I Love My Computer, a concept record built on her connection with her PC, swiping between genres of EDM, tech-house, speed garage, dubstep, and hyperpop. Wilson builds on the legacy of early-2000s and 2010s Australian electronic artists like PNAU and Flume using technology as a medium, a motif, and a mirror for reflection. Between remixing Princess Nokia, Deadmau5 & The Neptunes, releasing on Nina Las Vegas' NLV Records and RL Grime's Sable Valley, Ninajirachi has performed at Lollapalooza, EDC, Laneway, Listen Out, Splendour, Falls Festival, and more and toured with Mallrat, Charli XCX, Porter Robinson and Cashmere Cat.

MENAHAN STREET BAND - Illusions CD/LP (Diamond West Records)  
Twenty years after forming in Tommy Brenneck's Bushwick apartment, Menahan Street Band returns with Illusions, their fourth full-length album on Brenneck's Diamond West Records. The band - Tommy Brenneck, Dave Guy, Nick Movshon, Leon Michels and Homer Steinweiss - have each pursued an array of projects in the years since. Brenneck has produced for Baby Rose, Rogê and Kirby, toured with The Budos Band and runs Diamond West Records and Studio. Guy plays trumpet with The Roots and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and has released his own solo album; Steinweiss has made his own solo record and, with Movshon, has worked across multiple platinum album projects; and Michels continues as El Michels Affair, runs Big Crown Records and has produced Grammy-winning and nominated albums for Clairo and Norah Jones. Despite their many individual ventures, the group reunited with an energy Brenneck says felt like the first time. Recorded quickly and instinctively, Illusions blends Menahan's signature guitar, horns and drums with arrangements by Brazilian legend Arthur Verocai, taking listeners on an instrumental travelogue that let's the mind wander. Artist Ariana Papademetropoulos contributes original artwork to the album's otherworldly collection of music.

RADIE PEAT - No Human Tongue Can Tell CD/LP (Rough Trade)  
With unique vision, staggering vocal range and a wry sense of knowing, Lankum's Radie Peat distils the essence of folk music in her solo album No Human Tongue Can Tell. Breathing life into old songs and carrying them forward with new meaning, she both sustains and enriches the Irish singing tradition, her strength of will palpable through poised delivery on each stunning track. Already one of Ireland's most influential and revered vocalists as a member of contemporary Irish folk group Lankum, Peat is celebrated for her powerful contralto voice, technical vocal authority, and emotional depth. Peat's artistry here, is to create a moment where one woman's voice represents the voices of many through the ages, or as Peat describes it, 'communicating hundreds of years of other people's experiences, that have been absorbed into the songs from generations and generations before you - binds you with a worldliness beyond the sum of your own experience'. For this, the album has both an ancient and contemporary feel. Imbued with sagely advice, catharsis for profound suffering, levity in the midst of desperation, No Human Tongue Can Tell is a collection of songs to reassure us that others have been where we are.

DANNY BROWN - Atrocity Exhibition CD/LP [Reissue/2016] (Warp Records)  
Celebrating a decade since the release of this landmark hip-hop album, Warp are proud to present special edition formats of a modern classic. Boasting features from Kendrick Lamar, Earl Sweatshirt, Ab-Soul, Kelela and B-Real; production from Paul White, Alchemist, Black Milk, Playa Haze, Evian Christ and Petite Noir; and mixed by Derek 'MixedByAli' Ali as the cherry on the cake. The melding of Brown's unique flow and tone with an innovative soundscape, pulling samples from such esoteric sources as 70s German cosmic rock records, radiophonic experiments and industrial techno, set a new high watermark in experimental rap, with tracks like ‘Really Doe’ and ‘Ain't It Funny' becoming left-field anthems. For the tenth anniversary, original sleeve designer Ed Davis has come up with new alternate artwork, with the limited 2LP colour vinyl edition housed in shiny silver mirror-board packaging, printed inner sleeves and an 8 page 12 booklet. The CD version is housed in an 8 panel mirror-board card wallet, also utilizing the alternate artwork, and comes with a bonus disc containing previously unreleased instrumental versions of all the tracks on the album. Both of these are one time pressings that will not be available again.

RADIO DEPT - Pet Grief LP [Reissue/2006] (Just So)  
The Swedish dream-pop masterpiece returns to vinyl - introducing the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Radio Dept.'s Pet Grief. Limited edition reissue on black vinyl, available for the first time since 2020.

WILLI CARLISLE - Universal Bubba CD/LP (Signature Sounds)  
With a heavy-duty catalog of new material for a career first double album, The Universal Bubba marks a half dozen releases for folksinger Willi Carlisle and reaches new heights with the added accelerant of first time producer Tyler Childers. In an all-time DIY effort, Childers and his band convened to a makeshift home studio nestled in the Bywater District of New Orleans for two weeks to cut 17 tracks that expand Carlisle's sonic scrapbook and capture the off-kilter characters living in his songs. Hailed as One of country music's most important and unmistakable voices. by PASTE, Carlisle embraced the freedom to wander across genres both familiar and new, testing out instrumentation and toying with the surreality of traditions being turned on their head.I think this one goes to outer space, says Carlisle. This is the widest range of influences that I've ever had. It touches on funk, Americana, Cajun, oldtime, and experimental music. Exploration aside, Carlisle's mission as a folksinger largely remains the same - documenting the stories and struggles of the people and balancing the humor and hope of existence. I want to write songs that prove the old weird America didn't go anywhere, that we are living and dying for it everyday. I believe there's noble work to do in that context. That if we feel despair, we don't need to because there's so much good work to do.

ORUA - Maldicao (2016-2026) LP (K. Records)  
Oruã was born at night attending parties til dawn in downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A poor man's jazz. Working-class' krautrock. Oruã are art! The Oruã, Maldição (2016-2026) album celebrates their ten years of hyper-creativity, a double LP drawing from their many periods and various releases since 2016. The songs were recorded in different places and countries, expanding on a sound that originally stemmed from old cassette tapes and 4-track port-a-studio recordings. The album contains twenty songs in all, ranging from thoughtful psychedelia to fuzzy, experimental rock’n'roll. Oruã is lead by critically-acclaimed guitarist and producer Lê Almeida, who is joined by long-time collaborators João Casaes (synths), Bigu Medine (bass) and Ana Zumpano (drums), along with many other friends and accomplices over the decade. Together they blend lo-fi indie rock, psychedelia, noise, afrobeat, and Brazilian references. In 2019 their sound was discovered by indie rock legend Doug Martsch of Built to Spill, which led to him inviting Lê and João to become temporary members of the 90's indie rock band. Later they recorded, co-produced, and co-mixed Built to Spill's most recent album, When the Wind Forgets Your Name, released in 2022 on Sub Pop Records.

U2 - Carnaval De Luz CD/LP (Interscope Records)  
Carnaval de Luz is the exhilarating 16th studio album from U2, 12 melodically rich new songs from one of the most celebrated & enduring bands of all time. Acknowledged as one of the best live acts in the world, U2 has sales of over 175m & won numerous awards, including 22 Grammys. Set for release in the year Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen Jr. Will mark 50 years together in U2, Carnaval de Luz includes lead tracks ‘Street of Dreams,’ ‘Silencio’ and the extraordinary ‘Torn (ft. Dolly Parton)’.

BRAINSTORY - Shoebox Days LP (Big Crown) 
California's beloved Brainstory returns with a new EP celebrating the end of an era. Shoebox Days is an homage to the time spent and the recordings made at their now defunct Long Beach studio, aptly named Shoebox. As the name suggests, the space was tiny and stuffed with gear. While charming, it was riddled with constraints. But, as has been proven time and time again, great art often comes from difficult circumstances, and this new 7 song EP is further proof.

DOGGY DAYCARE - Posthumous Release LP (Fort Lowell)  
Fresh from the grave, Doggy Daycare’s Posthumous Release is an all-encompassing southern shoegaze album from the now-defunct (but still kicking) North Carolina band. What started as a bedroom coping mechanism by frontman Adam Bastug morphed into a project that became known for their oversized sound and 90s-inflected guitar work. With Posthumous Release, the band makes good on singles “(forgetting) sarah marshall” and “acid walk”, crafting an album that embraces the listener with warm, fuzzy hooks and forlorn lyrics. Recorded by Jacob Adams in Wilmington, NC and mixed & mastered by Raleigh, NC’s Max Gowan, the album is both scrappy and massive in sonic scope. Calling to mind the effervescent aggression of My Bloody Valentine and Ride, but fitting right at home with local NC darlings Wednesday and MJ Lenderman, Doggy Daycare’s sound swings from heavy, hooky alt-country (“brainworms”), to sneering, sardonic dance-punk (“now that’s what i call music vol. 1”).

FEMALE GAZE - Linea Nigra LP (Fort Lowell)  
Tucson own’s Female Gaze returns with their sophomore album, Linea Nigra. Frontwoman, Nelene DeGuzman, describes the upcoming record as “...a meditation on my thoughts and feelings around navigating labor, delivery, and the prospect of mothering while the world is on fire.” An accurate description given how the overall energy of the album screams sexy Apocalypse. Nostalgic alt-rock still shines through the cracks of this doomier, more evolved sound. 

PINEGROVE - Everything So Far LP [Reissue/2015] (Pinegrove) 
A compilation of all of Pinegrove's music prior to their album Cardinal. Released in 2015. Includes ‘Need 2,' ‘Problems,’ ‘Angelina,’ and more!

VARIOUS - Snowed In: A Merge Records Holiday Album LP (Merge Records) 
Brighten your wintry season with Snowed In: A Merge Records Holiday Album. Our second collection of holiday tunes, Snowed In features both original music and covers of traditional and contemporary classics by 11 Merge artists, all newly recorded for this compilation. Snowed In has gifts for every kind of listener, from Charlotte Cornfield's heartwarming take on ‘Jingle Bells’ to Dawn Richard's smoldering ‘On A Night Like This.’ Gorgeous versions of ‘O Holy Night’ (Fruit Bats) and ‘Jesus Was A Cross Maker’ (Elanor Moss) sit alongside original yuletide rockers by Mike Krol and The Tubs. Case Oats and Rosali evoke the spirit of family caroling in wildly divergent fashion, Case Oats pounding out the raucous original ‘Peace on Earth’ and Rosali sitting in with her parents, Lee and David Middleman, on a tender rendition of ‘The Cherry Tree Carol.’ Rounding out the festivities are holiday hitmakers Telekinesis, The New Pornographers, and Superchunk, who fit right into the canon with the likes of Bing, Mariah, and McCartney. So deck the halls, shake out those ugly Christmas sweaters and make Snowed In the sound of your season. It's an eclectic gathering, but what great party isn't?

KALI MALONE - Burning Song CD/LP (Ideologic Organ)  
Burning Song, composer and organist Kali Malone's first new album since 2024's All Life Long, represents a transformation in her compositional strategy towards a process that is intuitive and direct. The album was recorded at the historic Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Germany, where J.S. Bach was cantor for the last 27 years of his life; his body rests beneath the sanctuary. Malone is the first musician to perform contemporary works on the church's Bach Organ, an instrument completed in 2000 but with bespoke tuning and temperament systems based on historical norms of the baroque period. She is joined by Lucy Railton on cello and Stephen O'Malley on bowed acoustic guitar, the same trio that honed a profound connection based on deep listening through the development of Malone's work Does Spring Hide It's Joy.

GILES COREY - Giles Corey CD/LP [Reissue/2011] (The Flenser)  
Giles Corey is the solo project of Have a Nice Life's Dan Barrett. First released in 2011, Giles Corey's self-titled debut is a bleak, intimate, and strangely beautiful record that turns depression, death, history, and the paranormal into something intensely personal. Over the fifteen years since it's release, Giles Corey's debut has accumulated a massive cult following, with listeners often describing their relationship with the album in the language of ritual or religious experience. That devotion is no accident. Built largely from acoustic instrumentation, the record nevertheless feels crushing, like something unseen is pressing against every song. Guitar and piano are buried beneath ghostly choirs, heavy organ, field recordings, and sudden walls of sound, creating something that feels far larger than the sounds that make it up. Like the themes that run through the album, it possesses an uncanny quality that is difficult to explain, as though the music itself is carrying voices from somewhere just beyond reach. Songs emerge from near silence and build toward enormous cathartic outbursts, with Barrett's voice at the center of arrangements that seem constantly on the verge of swallowing him whole. Integral to Giles Corey is a 150-page book, available with select versions of this edition or separately from The Flenser. Moving between personal accounts of depression and suicide and the story of cult leader and afterlife theorist Robert Voor, the book expands the world of the album beyond the music itself. Voor also appears throughout Barrett's work, connecting Giles Corey to the lore surrounding Have a Nice Life's Deathconsciousness and Barrett's larger body of work. This new edition of Giles Corey has been remastered by Richard Chowenhill of Agriculture and includes ‘A Landless Earth,’ a bonus track never before officially released.

THIS HEAT - Deceit LP [Reissue/1981] (SUPERIOR VIADUCT) 
From it's word-playful title (Deceit / This Heat-say it aloud and twist your tongue) to the lyrics densely written on the back cover, This Heat's second album from 1981 is much more verbally direct than their largely instrumental 1979 debut. The group had things on their minds and statements they wanted to make. 'The first album was about the Dread, but dread not really understood yet,' says Charles Hayward. 'With the second album, we were starting to understand what made us afraid. The whole of Deceit was about nuclear war. There was a policy of nuclear deterrence forged by our elders and betters called Mutually Assured Destruction. They were so crazy they couldn't see that they'd identified their own policy as M.A.D.’

REX ORANGE COUNTY - Dream Fatigue CD/LP (Big Pluto Limited)  
Rex Orange County brings his intimate, conversational songwriting to Dream Fatigue, pairing emotionally direct observations with the warm, melodic pop sensibility at the heart of his music.

CHEMICAL BROTHERS - Born In The Echoes LP [Reissue/2015] (Astralwerks)  
The Chemical Brothers deliver another large-scale electronic excursion, combining club-ready rhythms, psychedelic details, and imaginative guest collaborations.

TALKING HEADS - Fear Of Music 2xLP/6xLP [Reissue/1979] (Rhino)  
[2026 remaster] The third album from Talking Heads, 1979’s Fear of Music, is the bridge between the angular art rock of the Heads' early work and the P-Funk-inspired modalism of their early-'80s output. Fear of Music is more than just a bridge, though. It's the water under the bridge, the air, the animals, the cities the river flows through, and the heaven on top of it all: "...a place where nothing ever happens.

CHALINO SANCHEZ - Y Sigue La Balacera CD/LP [Reissue/1992] (Craft Recordings)  
Recorded in 1988 and originally released in 1992 by Discos Musart on cassette, this landmark album by Chalino Sanchez, the King of Corridos, makes it's long-awaited vinyl debut. Backed by the powerful tambora sound of Los Guamuchilenos, it's ten tracks - six written by Chalino - blend heartfelt love songs and vivid corridos inspired by life in Sinaloa. Remastered on vinyl with AAA lacquers cut from the original master tapes to deliver the definitive listening experience.

VARIOUS - Somewhere Soul : Rituals Vol. 02 LP (Mr Bongo)  
Mr Bongo welcomes Somewhere Soul to the label for the second volume in his Rituals compilation series. A carefully curated collection of exclusive, genre-spanning tracks from his most hotly tipped, contemporary emerging artists and underground forerunners. Start to finish it takes listeners on a 24-hour journey from morning to the dancefloor. Moving through soothing and gently bubbling ambient folk, jazz and soul, to sunlit Brazilian MPB, atmospheric instrumental psych and dance floor friendly electronic productions. From humble beginnings as a music blog, Somewhere Soul has grown into a global go-to for music discovery with close to a million followers on Instagram alone. Unlike many with the influence that Josh Mason-Quinn holds, his outlook and format have remained the same - showcasing music that he loves and providing a platform for artists from all corners of the world. “In a world increasingly overrun by AI,” Josh says, “it's far more memorable discovering music from another human than some instant algorithm recommendation that's devoid of context.”

JOHN COLTRANE - Tiberi Tapes 3xCD/4xLP (Impulse Records) 
The Tiberi Tapes opens a door long-whispered about among Coltrane fans: intimate, previously unheard live recordings made by saxophonist Frank Tiberi as he followed John Coltrane through Philadelphia and New York clubs in the early 1960s. Captured on modest reel-to-reel equipment, these performances trade Polish for presence, placing the listener close to the bandstand as Coltrane and his bandmates test, stretch and transform the music in real time. The sound bears the immediacy of it's origins: raw, direct and alive with discovery. For Tiberi, these tapes were study materials, a private archive of harmonic information and musical inspiration. More than 60 years later, they emerge as something larger: a vital chapter in the Coltrane story, preserving the feeling, risk and relentless searching that made the bandstand his truest laboratory. Heard now, the music feels not archival but immediate, a living document of curiosity, discipline and ecstatic momentum.

JAMES FELICE - Homeworld Blue LP (Million Stars Record)  
On his sweeping sophomore solo effort, James Felice squares up against cosmic indifference with expansive orchestral production and a depth of writing that makes even visceral Biblical imagery feel effortless. Recorded in Omaha with Nate Walcott (Bright Eyes) at the helm, Homeworld Blue pairs lush horns, intricate strings and pounding piano with Felice's authoritative, plainspoken voice - grand in scope, but never far from the small, everyday moments it's really about. Drawing on twenty years as keyboardist and accordionist of The Felice Brothers, and following his 2025 solo debut The Little Ones, Felice trades the intimacy of home recording for a maximalist, cinematic scope that sits comfortably alongside audacious songwriters like Joanna Newsom, Fiona Apple and Randy Newman - and closes, fittingly, back in the family kitchen.

DESCENDENTS - Bonus Fat CD/LP [Reissue/1985] (Org Music)  
Compiled in 1985, Descendents' Bonus Fat combines the band's debut single with 1981's Fat EP, as well as the outtake Global Probing. It chronicles the nascent years of one of punk's most vaunted bands during a phase of caffeine-fueled bursts of energy, mapping their transition from a breezy, surf-tinged brand of power pop to the more aggressive, hardcore sound found on the Fat EP. Originally released on the Minutemen's New Alliance Records, the tracks laid the groundwork for the landmark debut that would cement the band's legacy forever.

EELS - Beautiful Freak LP [Reissue/1996] (PIAS)  
Serving as the genesis for a legendary career, Beautiful Freak captures Eels at the very beginning of their journey. Blending alternative rock, lo-fi charm, and melancholic pop across twelve foundational cuts, it features iconic early singles like ;Novocaine for the Soul,; and ;Susan’s House’. This 30th Anniversary edition is available on clear vinyl with black and blue splatter with an extended deluxe tracklist featuring non-album tracks never before released on vinyl.

GOJIRA - Magma LP [Reisuse/2016] (Roadrunner Records)  
Gojira's acclaimed 2016 album channels grief and reflection into a streamlined but still crushing mixture of progressive metal, rhythmic power, and haunting atmosphere.

SIDNEY GISH - Ed Buys Houses LP [Reissue/2016] (Many Hats)
SIDNEY GISH - No Dogs Allowed LP [Reissue/2017] (Many Hats) 
Sidney Gish is a songwriter and producer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her first album, Ed Buys Houses, was self-released on Bandcamp in 2016. Her second album, No Dogs Allowed, was released on New Year's Eve in 2017, receiving a 7.7 rating on Pitchfork and winning Album of the Year at the 2018 Boston Music Awards. Gish has toured with artists like Mitski, Cavetown, The Beths, and Jeff Rosenstock. She has a cult following and now a hugely viral song.

JEFFREY JOE JENSEN - New! Coke New! Coke LP (Goner)  
New! Coke New! Coke is Jeffrey Joe Jensen trying to figure out where he came from, where he belongs, and why the hell the world is the way it is. He doesn't have the answers, but he has some pretty good songs. Jensen didn’t set out to make a concept album. He simply wanted to write honestly about his life, particularly the years since he left the United States in 2013. Somewhere along the way, New! Coke New! Coke became a record about dislocation, survival, love, faith, wonder, and his increasingly complicated relationship with America. The album grew out of a collaboration with Michael Fellows, best known as a member of the influential D.C. punk band Rites of Spring, who recorded much of the album at his home studio in Philmont. Other sessions took place in Nairobi with Kenyan musicians from the Luo community, while a brief but mesmerizing cameo from Alvarius B., aka Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls, was recorded in Cairo. The far-flung cast reflects Jensen's decade abroad and his changing relationship with America, while the record itself refuses to separate music from the world around it. 

KALIA VANDEVER & DAVE HARRINGTON - Evergreen LP (Cascine)  
Kalia Vandever and Dave Harrington team up for their first collaboration together with the debut album Evergreen. The two met in 2025 while Vandever was supporting Harrington on the road during the Darkside tour in North America. Vandever is an accomplished trombonist and composer whose albums have brought them all over the world, performing at jazz festivals and clubs. Harrington, often known for his revolutionary band Darkside, is one of music's great guitarists who has created a world around his playing blending genres of jazz, electronic, and more. The duo's debut album Evergreen is the confluence of these elements. A blend of jazz and electronic music that feels all their own. Recorded over a three-day period in Los Angeles during February 2026, Vandever and Harrington hunkered down in the Sudden Quarterly studios during a pummeling rainstorm. The feeling and atmosphere during the sessions was introspective and emotional, two sentiments that aren't often associated with the usually sunny city of LA. Harrington's guitar is sometimes a wall of sound, reflecting the downpours outside, and at other moments it is gentle and reflective. Feelings of stillness, nostalgia, and longing are conveyed by the trombone playing of Vandever. At times soaring and triumphant and others breathy and insular, Vandever draws the listener into their world.

COMING NEXT WEEK
INJURY RESERVE - By The Time I Get To Phoenix LP Reissue
FELA KUTI - Expensive Shit LP Reissue
SEBADOH - Harmacy LP Reissue
MARGO PRICE - Days Of Unrest LP
KAROL G - No Me Arrepiento De Sentir Tanto LP
BOARDS OF CANADA - Hi-Scores LP Reissue
FLIGHT FACILITIES - Down To Earth LP Reissue
SYSTEM OF A DOWN - Toxicity LP Reissue
VARIOUS - GTA VI The Album CD/LP