New Releases & Staff Picks - 2/6/26

STAFF PICKS
 DARIO - Ranil Y Su Conjunto Tropical
ASH - Mr Bongo comp 
 JAKE - Joji 
KIMBER - Silversun Pickups
MARY - TLC and Blur reissues 
ZACH - Mandy, Indiana and Bad Bunny 
DREW - Mayhem 
TY - Talk Talk Reissue 

PUSCIFER - Normal Isn’t  CD/LP (BMG)
The enigmatic Puscifer return with the stunning new album, Normal Isn't. The uncompromising rock band fronted by Maynard James Keenan (Tool, A Perfect Circle), have delivered a stunning record certain to please their dedicated fanbase. Features the single ‘Self Evident.’

JOJI - Piss In The Wind CD/LP (Palace Creek)
Joji returns with long-awaited 4th studio album Piss In The Wind via Palace Creek. The new LP cements his place as one of the most distinctive and genre-defying artists of his generation, balancing haunting melodies with gritty yet atmospheric production. The album captures the quiet contradictions that always defined his music, wrestling inner turmoil into something strangely beautiful. Features ‘PIXELATED KISSES,’ ‘Past Won't Leave My Bed,’ and more.

BAD BUNNY - Debi Tirar Mas Fotos LP (Bad Bunny)
Double opaque colored vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. The interior art on the gatefold jacket is new and exclusive to this pressing.

SILVERSUN PICKUPS - Tenterhooks CD/LP (New Machine Recording)
Silversun Pickups meet the moment with their seventh full-length LP, Tenterhooks. It's an anxious, emotionally charged, and unapologetic collection of ten tracks appropriate for the times, yet as timeless as anything they've done. We wanted to make a tight record that could fit on one vinyl with five songs on each side, says Aubert. To me, it's an impatient, apprehensive, and more aggressive album. We started recording when the world was changing again. You invariably wonder, 'What are we headed towards?' Even if you're not necessarily writing about it.

MANDY INDIANA - Urgh LP  (Sacred Bones)
For Mandy, Indiana, the truth is the only way through. On their Sacred Bones debut URGH, the four-piece - vocalist Valentine Caulfield, guitarist and producer Scott Fair, synth player Simon Catling, and drummer Alex Macdougall - are a force of uncanny nature, grafting together a record that is as much a call to action as a parlay into oblivion and transcendence. Across the ten tracks, the band interpolate their own unconventional language into a mantra for self-determination and resilience, forging a template for a brighter future before it fades to black.

MAYHEM - Liturgy Of Death CD/LP (Century Media)
With their new opus Liturgy of Death, MAYHEM reaffirm their status as the most uncompromising force in Norwegian Black Metal. After four decades of extremity, the band has reached a new apex of darkness: faster, fiercer, and more sinister than anything in their recent catalog. The album unfolds as a relentless meditation on death in all it's manifestations - existential, spiritual, and absolute. From the furious chaos of ‘Despair’ and 'Funeral of Existence’ to the bleak grandeur of ‘Ephemeral Eternity' and ‘Aeon's End,’ each track drags the listener deeper into a ritual of misery and transcendence.

BLUR - Leisure LP [Reissue/1991] (WB / Parlophone)
BLUR - Parklife LP [Reissue/1994] (WB / PARLOPHONE)
BLUR - 13 LP [Reissue/1997] (WB / Parlophone)
LP reissues of the London indie band’s debut, third, and fourth LPs.

RANIL Y SU CONJUNTO TROPICAL - Galaxia Tropical LP (Analog Africa)
Born in 1935 as Jorge Raúl Llerena Vásquez, Ranil’s story begins in the Peruvian Amazon, in a corner where the sounds of the forest mix with stray radio waves from Colombia, Brazil, and Ecuador. After winning various local singing contests as a young man, he quickly understood that breaking into Peru’s music industry — especially as an artist from “the end of the world” — would be no easy path. Years later, two albums recorded in the early 1970s with Los Silver's became cult treasures.

NICK JONAS - Sunday Best LP (Universal Records)
Nick Jonas returns with Sunday Best, the singer-songwriter's fifth solo studio album. The project delivers an unguarded, fresh sound from Nick, built largely around acoustic guitar and piano, choirs and a string quartet; coupled with raw, self-examining lyrics. He gave fans an early peak at the album by previewing a few songs during his Sunday Best Brunch in Las Vegas.

DJO - Crux Deluxe CD/LP (TWENTY20)
Djo, the musical project of Joe Keery, returns with his fourth studio album, The Crux Deluxe -an expansive, 12-track companion album to The Crux, written, recorded and produced by Keery and his collaborator Adam Thein. Following the massive success of his single ‘End of Beginning,’ which topped both the US and Global Spotify charts and amassed over 2 billion streams worldwide, the deluxe record is full of songs that were written at the same time as The Crux album sessions and recorded at Electric Lady Studios in NYC.

TALK TALK - Spirit Of Eden LP [Reissue/1988] (Rhino)
TalkTalk's fourth critically acclaimed studio album has been cut at half-speed for vinyl. Since it's original release in 1988, Spirit of Eden has grown to become one of the most influential albums of the 80's. Featuring staple tracks such as ‘The Rainbow’ and ‘I Believe in You,’ the album is steeped in legend for it's long and improvisational recording sessions that created a body of work that would go on to be vital in the creation of post-rock as a genre.

FREE THROW - Those Days Are Gone LP [Reissue/2014] (Wax Bodega)
After four albums and a decade of hard work, including countless performances worldwide, the members - Cory Castro, Lawrence Warner, Justin Castro, Jake Hughes, and Kevin Garcia - have a fresh perspective on life. The band is through obsessing over what comes next and romanticizing the moments that have already passed. Instead, Free Throw is making music about the present and how seeking balance in our lives is far more meaningful work than the endless pursuit of whatever you deem to be 'enough.' Those Days Are Gone was the band's debut, and still most popular, album. Out of press for years, the title is now back in steady rotation.

BENNIE GREEN - Back On The Scene (Blue Note Tone Poet Edition) LP [Reissue/1958]  (Blue Note)
Trombonist Bennie Green made his Blue Note debut with his delightful 1958 album, Back On The Scene, featuring saxophonist Charlie Rouse, pianist Joe Knight, bassist George Tucker and drummer Louis Hayes. From buoyant swing to Latin grooves to tender ballads the band delivers a thoroughly enjoyable program. This mono Blue Note Tone Poet Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, and packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket.

LEE MORGAN - City Lights (Blue Note Tone Poet Edition) LP [Reissue/1957] (Blue Note)
Trumpeter Lee Morgan was just 19 years old and still early on in his lengthy Blue Note association when he cut his brightly swinging 1957 album, City Lights, featuring Curtis Fuller, George Coleman, Ray Bryant, Paul Chambers and Art Taylor. The set includes 3 compositions by Morgan's mentor Benny Golson. This stereo Blue Note Tone Poet Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, and packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket.

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Mr Bongo Edits Volume 4 LP (Mr. Bongo)
Stepping up next in our Mr Bongo 12 Edits series, we've invited another legend of the game, DJ Nature, to craft a special EP of signature edits. Following editions by Dan Tyler and Nick The Record, Luke Una, and Danny Krivit, DJ Nature selects four prime cuts spanning modern soul, psychedelic funk, boogie, and leftfield disco, giving each his trademark tweak for today's dance floor.

TLC - FanMail LP [Reissue/1999] (Sony) 
Celebrate TLC's iconic third studio album FanMail, originally released in 1999, on vinyl. Honoring the group's groundbreaking blend of hip-hop, R&B, and futuristic production, the album features hits like 'No Scrubs’ and ‘Unpretty.’

THE AWAKENING  - Hear, Sense, and Feel LP [Reissue/1972] (Real Gone)
THE AWAKENING  - Mirage LP [Reissue/1973]  (Real Gone)
The Awakening were the only “group” recorded by Black Jazz, for which they made two albums; those two releases happen to be among the most collectible in the label’s entire catalog. Recorded in 1972, Hear, Sense, and Feel marked the band’s debut, and featured the same line-up that played on next year’s Mirage. Spiritual jazz, free jazz, soul jazz, fusion jazz, you name it—The Awakening take all those threads common to early ‘70s African-American music and, like any great ensemble, weave them into a beautiful sonic garment that’s greater than the sum of its parts.

COMING NEXT WEEK
JEFF BUCKLEY - Live At Sin-E CD/LP
CHARLI XCX - Wuthering Heights CD/LP
ANGEL DU$T - Cold 2 The Touch CD/LP
OLYMPIANS - In Search Of A Revival CD/LP
REMEMBER SPORTS - Refrigerator LP
LUKE TEMPLE - Hungry Animal LP
BAT FOR LASHES - Fur And Gold LP Reissue
JOHN DOE - Forever Hasn’t Happened Yet LP Reissue
NUDE PARTY - Look Who’s Back LP
SHOULD - Feed Like Fishes LP Reissue
DANNY L HARLE - Cerulean LP
GUITARRICADELAFUENTE - Spanish Leather LP
MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES - Let’s Face It LP Reissue