New Releases & Staff Picks - 5/29/26

STAFF PICKS
 DARIO - Simon Joyner and Nina Nastasia
ASH - Kaiso Power comp
 JAKE - Greg Mendez and Villagerrr
 KIMBER - Boards of Canada
MARY - Paul McCartney, Kurt Vile, and Boards of Canada
ZACH - Boards of Canada
DREW - Neurosis and Nina Nastasia reissue
PAT- Ana Roxanne and Flipper,  

BOARDS OF CANADA - Inferno CD/LP  (Warp Records)  
After thirteen years of silence from the compound, during which anticipation has grown day by day, Boards of Canada finally return. Inferno retains their signature melodies and atmospheres, drawing on the esoteric influences explored in Societas X Tape (their 2019 NTS mix for Warp Records' 30th anniversary) and the darker ambience introduced on Tomorrow's Harvest, further deepened by an expanded role for speech soundbites. Spanning seventy minutes, the new album is available on special edition limited red translucent 2LP vinyl in triple gatefold sleeve with a 16-page booklet, black 2LP vinyl and CD with 20-page booklet.

KURT VILE - Philadelphia's Been Good To Me CD/LP (Verve Forecast)  
Kurt Vile's Philadelphia's Been Good To Me illustrates his love for his home city, where he still resides and records most of his music. This album includes his distinct jangly guitars, soaring instrumental passages, and lyrics that are both cheeky and sentimental at the same time.

BUG CLUB - Every Single Muscle CD/LP (Sub Pop)  
The Bug Club are back with a new album. It's been a whole seven months since their last. Where have they been? Every Single Muscle, the band's fifth LP overall, is the third to be released by the Welsh duo's esteemed Seattle-based patrons Sub Pop. Since Very Human Features, which emerged in June of 2025, the non-stop tour has seen the BBC 6 Music and KEXP favourites ping-pong across the Atlantic like they used to the Severn Bridge. This record's an exercise in efficient maximalism - the musical equivalent of your dad packing the car for a holiday. Bring what you like; space is tight but they'll get it in there somehow.

ALL THEM WITCHES - House Of Mirrors CD/LP (BMG)  
Nashville-based psychedelic blues rock act All Them Witches return with brand-new album, House of Mirrors, the band's first new studio album since 2020's seminal Nothing as the Ideal. The album features singles ‘Red Rocking Chair' and ‘Starting Line.’ The band will be touring worldwide in support of the album throughout 2026 and 2027.

PAUL MCCARTNEY - Boys Of Dungeon Lane CD/LP (Capitol)  
The Boys of Dungeon Lane is a collection of rare and revealing glimpses into memories never-before shared, along with some newly inspired love songs, from one of the most culturally significant figures of our time. These extraordinary new songs find Paul writing with rare openness about his childhood in post-war Liverpool, the resilience of his parents, and early adventures shared with George Harrison and John Lennon long before the world had ever heard of Beatlemania.

DANZIG  - I LP [Reissue/1988] (American Recordings)  
The debut album that introduced Glenn Danzig's dark vision to the world, blending heavy blues riffs with ominous lyrical themes. LP package includes gatefold jacket, printed sleeves, and pressed on opaque white vinyl.

DANZIG - II: Lucifuge LP [Reissue/1990]  (American Recordings)  
With Lucifuge, Danzig expanded their sound, balancing thunderous heaviness with moody, soulful undertones. Songs like "Her Black Wings" and "Long Way Back From Hell" showcase the band's evolving songwriting. LP package includes standard LP jacket, printed sleeves, and pressed on translucent ruby vinyl.

SIMON JOYNER - Tough Love LP (Grapefruit)  
For over 30 years, Simon Joyner has been an anomaly-a wholly independent artist focused solely on his craft. The Omaha-based singer-songwriter began releasing music in the early '90s and has walked an unbroken line ever since. Joyner's songs of quiet joy and heartache have impacted different generations of fellow artists, showing up as overt influence in acts like Bright Eyes or Kevin Morby, and as flickers of shared perspectives in the Lenkers, Oldhams, and Molinas that followed. Tough Love, Joyner's 19th studio album, continues this upward trend. While intrinsically linked to the personal grief of 2024's Coyote Butterfly, the autobiographical album Joyner made in the wake of his son's death, this new album explores the concept of tough love as a dichotomy applied to various fictional relationships including romantic, familial, and political. Tough Love Musicians: Ben Brodin, Caleb Dailey, Micah Dailey, Simon Joyner, Laraine Kaizer, Michael Krassner, Mychal Marasco, Megan Siebe.

JOEY QUINONES - Inna Soul Steady Situation CD/LP (Colemine Records)  
Before Thee Sinseers, before the lush orchestrations and pitch-perfect harmonies that became his signature, Joey Quiñones cut his teeth leading various backing bands for visiting Jamaican ska and dancehall acts touring Southern California. He describes those years as reggae college, getting yelled at by every Jamaican artist who had a record out. Those years of apprenticeship in rock steady and roots reggae would inform everything that followed - and on his new solo record Inna Soul Steady Situation, Quiñones finally showcases those influences front and center.

GREG MENDEZ - Beauty Land LP (Dead Oceans)  
Greg Mendez has always been an economical songwriter - he wields restraint and simplicity as tools, the core of his songs sharpened into simple, cutting truths. On Beauty Land, his new album and debut LP for Dead Oceans, we're guided by a wry but forgiving narrator, an underdog who has learned to balance cynicism and faith. These songs are self-effacing without self-pity, carefully constructed altars of imperfection channeled through pop melodies, shimmering but urgent guitars, and a voice that reaches for choir boy innocence.

SPARTA - Cut A Silhouette CD/LP (Equal Vision Records)  
Equal Vision Records release Sparta's latest full-length album Cut A Silhouette. Produced by J. Robbins, the album channels the spirit of their early catalog.

MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA - Union Chapel (London, England) CD/LP (Loma Vista)
In the fall of 2023, Andy Hull and Robert McDowell took up residency at Union Chapel in London for 3 nights of unprecedented, intimate duo performances spanning the history of Manchester Orchestra. Andy's voice paired with Robert's meticulously plucked strings, eerie instrumentation and understated harmonizing echoed against the gothic walls and stained-glass windows of the chapel. A liturgical experience of introspection and sound community, transforming their most beloved songs into an iconic piece of music.

ICEAGE - For Love Of Grace & The Hereafter CD/LP (Mexican Summer)  
For Love of Grace & the Hereafter is the sixth studio album from beloved Danish quintet Iceage. Across the sprawling, twelve song arc of the album, a universe of love variously expands and contracts in an eternal tango, Elias Rønnenfelt's lyrics burn with apocalyptic intimacy while the band masterfully maneuvers within their shape-shifting scenery of feral post-punk.

BLUE OCTOBER - Foiled LP [Reissue/2006] (Republic Records)  
Blue October celebrates the 20th anniversary of their breakthrough album, Foiled, now available on vinyl for the first time. Newly remastered on 180-gram black vinyl, the platinum-certified album features the hit singles Hate Me and Into the Ocean.

CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN - II & III - 40th Anniversary Edition [Reissue/1986] (Cooking Vinyl)  
Do not eat or drink anything past midnight prior to your appointment- NO FOOD, NO LIQUID. Non-sensical, un-user friendly, at times half finished. Camper Van Beethoven's second album II & III saw the folk-punk of the band's debut LP morphing into a coherently incoherent collection of some of the band's most defining songs. Originally released in 1986, the follow up to Telephone Free Landslide Victory did much to develop an already iconoclastic Camper Van Beethoven idiom. II & III ranges from alt-country ballads (Sad Lovers' Waltz) to call-backs to the European folk instrumentals of the debut (No Krugerrands For David, 4 Year Plan). Also featured is the band's bluegrass-Americana take on Sonic Youth's ‘I Love Her All the Time,’ feeding their appetite for cover songs.

VARIOUS - Kaiso Power: Sound Revolution In Trinidad LP (Soundway Records)  
At the dawn of the 70s a shift was taking place all around the world. The streets of Port of Spain thronged with Black Power marches, trade union demonstrations and Carnival protest bands - one epicentre in a growing global exchange of ideologies and strategies among Pan Africanist circles in Jamaica, Guyana, London, New York, Montreal, Lagos, Accra and beyond. And when the meetings were over, the revolution moved to the cramped secret dance halls, the Carnival fetes, the steelband yards. The music always had a sharp edge. Searing commentary has always been part of the various types of music in Trinidad, and in the absence of lyrics, the defiant use of the drum maintains the resistance, as well as the re-framing of the playing of European instruments to the needs of the message. Lancelot Layne, Delano Abdul Malik de Coteau, Andre Tanker, Clive Zanda, Mansa Musa were more than artists, they were teachers, community workers and advocates for justice. These recordings are as raw as an all night Carnival jam, the horns loud, the percussion ringing out, the bass dripping with joy and rebellion. Under the modern influences is a solid rhythm, an unbroken connection to Africa, the songs and keys and cadences brought across the middle passage. These songs are a peep into the untapped treasures of a revolutionary generation, looking at the world with fresh eyes and believing that music was a central part of the mission to build consciousness and regain confidence.

GNARLS BARKLEY - Atlanta LP (Ten Thousand Projects)  
First new music from Gnarls Barkley (CeeLo Green & Danger Mouse) in nearly 20 years. Atlanta is the third and final studio album by the music duo Gnarls Barkley.

GA-20 - Orphans LP (Colemine Records)  
One of the more defining features of Blues upstarts GA-20's approach to traditional Blues music is their unwavering dedication to playing the songs they love, or as bandleader Matthew Stubbs puts it, we play the music we would want to hear. Those in the know have been captivated by the visceral energy the band brings to the heavy Blues arena, and the songs they choose to perform. With Orphans, the band has assembled a collection of Blues and Blues-adjacent tracks that fit handily within that parameter. The songs found on Orphans are just that - singular tunes heard only at live shows, singles released between albums, and simple favorites that the band (Stubbs, Cody Nilsen & Josh Kiggans) have been itching to lay down. And just as Blues is a tradition of borrowing, sharing and transformation, these melodies and words are similarly reinterpreted and reimagined, orphans and strays lovingly adopted and given new breath. The fan demand for a proper full length release of these songs, along with the mandate to showcase Nilsen's vocals and auxiliary guitar mastery, are realized here in physical form.

GUIDED BY VOICES - Crawlspace Of The Pantheon CD/LP (Guided By Voices)
Guided by Voices' last album Thick Rich And Delicious (October 2025) was lauded by NPR's All Things Considered and picked #1 on Magnet Magazine's Best Albums Of 2025. The single ‘We Outlast Them All’ from this latest, Crawlspace Of The Pantheon, is an anthemic victory lap on album #44 from the indie rock stalwarts. Robert Pollard told Rolling Stone:  'We Outlast Them All' could be our 'We Are The Champions' but it's not necessarily about us. It's about anyone who perseveres over a long period of time. On Crawlspace Of The Pantheon: I worked much more diligently on this set of lyrics. I chiseled away at lines and sections and phrasings... I wanted them to have an overall emotionally conceptual feel. At times it feels somewhat autobiographical. Guided by Voices will not be on tour in 2026. Pollard recently told Magnet: "Why would we stop playing live and make these kinds of records? I don't know. We do what we wanna do."

DAVID TORN - Now I Imagine A Place Not The Same LP (Ideologic Organ)  
New double-LP by David Torn, his latest full-length album and first release for Kou Records. A bold new statement from one of the early architects of ambient and experimental guitar, the record reconnects with the raw electricity of Torn's formative processing-driven work while continuing to push his language forward. Built from richly processed guitar and electronics, the album unfolds as an immersive, long-form exploration of sound, balancing immediacy and abstraction, structure and spontaneity,

HOLLIE COOK - Shy Girl In Dub LP (Mr Bongo) 
Following the release of Hollie Cook's fifth studio album, Shy Girl, and her return to Mr Bongo 15 years after her debut, the album's producer Ben McKone reconstructs the recordings into a newly cut dubwise release. Crafted on an analogue mixing desk, Ben strips back the productions in vintage dub reggae style. He weaves in delays, echoes, and reverb to push Hollie's trademark sound into a hypnotising, rhythm and bass-heavy, electronic realm.

SMASHING PUMPKINS - Gish LP [Reissue/1991] (Virgin Records)  
The Smashing Pumpkins' spiritual debut and one of the best rock albums of the 1990s. Featuring the singles ‘Siva,’ ‘I Am One’ and ‘Rhinoceros,’ the album is remastered on 180-gram vinyl with the original 1991 packaging in celebration of it's 35th anniversary.

VILLAGERRR - Carousel LP (Winspear)  
A dynamic new chapter in villagerrr's discography, Carousel, Mark Scott's fifth album as villagerrr, glides from slowcore to shoegaze, from log-cabin folk to the accelerated bliss of rock tailor-made for an empty freeway. The boldest and most delicate album to date from the Ohio songwriter, Carousel is a sweeping exploration of what it means to try to make sincere art in a hyperexposed and constricting age, where Scott's big, midwestern songs smolder with a desire to find enduring meaning.

DOGSTAR - All In Now CD/LP (Dillon Street Record)  
Los Angeles rock trio Dogstar is back with All In Now, the band's fourth studio album and the follow-up to 2023's Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees. Produced by Nick Launay (IDLES, Amyl and the Sniffers, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds), All In Now marks a new era for Dogstar, with layered guitar riffs and heavy bass inspired by their time out on the road.

ANA ROXANNE - Poem 1 LP (Kranky)  
“I wanted to travel / Home into somewhere,” Ana Roxanne breathes across an eerie suspended drone on “The Age of Innocence”. “I wanted to try / And go very far.” These are the first words we hear on Poem 1 and reintroduce an artist who’s in a conspicuously different phase of her life than she was when her debut album, Because of a Flower, sprouted nearly six years ago. Heartbroken and reflective, Roxanne surveys the transformations that followed and displays a new-found boldness. Her voice is naked, vulnerable and alive, no longer shrouded in tape noise or looped and echoed beyond recognition beneath layered electroacoustic textures. Throughout the course of Poem 1, Roxanne displays her skill as a singer and songwriter in the classic sense, using the limited instrumentation simply to accent her exposed tones. Muted piano phrases and plucked bass notes languidly trail her anguished siren song on “Berceuse in A-flat Minor, Op. 45”, making each word count.

NEUROSIS - Undying Love For A Burning World LP (Neurot Recordings)  
Evolution can be ugly and beautiful, painful and euphoric. An Undying Love For A Burning World is the first new release from Neurosis in a decade, and a potent statement of intent and rebirth-one that marks the first new steps of resolve and resilience. An Undying Love For A Burning World is an epic album of colossal hypnotism-beautiful, fearsome and utterly compelling in a way that only Neurosis can be. Aaron Turner (Sumac, Isis) joins the band on vocals and guitar, a name whose legacy is intertwined with the band's own and a true kindred spirit. Neurosis have never been afraid of change, and here they embrace endless regeneration, surrendering to the emotional exorcism through heaviness and distortion that their music incites. Just as the universe tends towards balance, Neurosis' cacophony of noise, rhythm and dissonance always resolves towards moments of beauty.

RHODODENDRON - Ascent Effort LP  (Flenser)  
Transformation, growth, and rebirth drive Ascent Effort, the latest release from Portland, Oregon trio Rhododendron. The title points upward, but not toward arrival. The record documents a period of change defined as much by instability as progress, where confusion and renewal unfold at the same pace. Formed in 2019 while the band’s members were still in high school, Rhododendron’s Ezra Chong (guitar, vocals), Gage Walker (bass), and Noah Mortola (drums) set out to push their musical limits without regard for genre boundaries or audience expectation. For Ascent Effort, the band joined the roster of The Flenser, aligning with a label that has long championed artists who work in tension rather than comfort."

HANNAH LEW - Hannah Lew LP (Night School)  
One foot out the door, another in the otherworld...So begins Hannah Lew's debut, self-titled solo record, soaked in imperious, wide-eyed pop songwriting and a girl-group/post punk aesthetic that belies the artist's history in the U.S. underground. A towering, hook-laden album, it's infused with an optimism and surrealism that conversely deals with the times we find ourselves in.

LOVESLIESCRUSHING - Xuvetyn LP [Reissue/1996] (Numero)  
The ambient loafergaze soundtrack for interdimensional travel. Compiled from hissy cassettes 4-tracked between 1991-'95, Lovesliescrushing sophomore album Xuvetyn sighed and went in 1996, achieving the patina of legend some 30 years later. This double LP edition is housed in a tip-on jacket illustrated with Melissa Arpin and Scott Cortez's abstract photography, plus an elvish to English lyric sheet to read along with. A disorientingly beautiful cloud of neon drones and voices from the other side. Music that will envelop you, that you can disappear inside of.

VARIOUS - Soul Jazz Records: London Jazz Classics LP [Reissue/1993] (Soul Jazz) 
London Jazz Classics originally came out in 1993 - the first album ever to be released on Soul Jazz Records. The album brought together rare and obscure dance tracks in a unique mix of jazz dance and fusion, funk, Brazilian and Latin grooves. // The album was ironically titled - none of the music was from London, none of the music was traditionally classified as jazz, and all of the tracks were at the time practically unknown to most people. Instead, these were tracks that were filling dancefloors in a nascent jazz dance scene in London being created by a small group of DJs - Paul Murphy, Gilles Peterson, Sylvester, Patrick Forge and a few others.

RAPTURE - Out Of The Races & Onto The Tracks LP [Reissue/2001] (Sub Pop)  
The Rapture nailed their iconoclastic brand of wildly energetic rock drawing as much from dance music as post-punk. This new silver-vinyl pressing of their 2001 EP, limited to 1,000 copies, brings this seminal record back to vinyl for the first time in years.

TELEHEALTH - Green World Image LP (Sub Pop)  
The Kalshi app is a “prediction market for trading the future,” a platform allowing users to gamble on the outcome of almost any real-world event — from the accuracy of the weather forecast, to whether or not famine will officially be declared in Gaza. Joining CNN as the network’s official betting partner in late 2025, platform co-founder Tarek Mansour was quoted after the deal saying, “The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradeable asset out of any difference in opinion.” Telehealth was forged in the opportunity-rich environment of post-COVID Seattle as a scalable music startup with similar goals. Co-founded in 2022 by married couple and fellow gambling enthusiasts Alexander Attitude (synths/vox/guitar) and Kendra Cox (synths/vox), and joined by longtime collaborators Ian McCutcheon (drums), John O’Connor (bass), and Dillon Sturtevant (guitar), the group aims to financialize any difference of opinion over how the in-shambles local “music scene” should proceed."

PHILIP GLASS - Music With Changing Parts LP [Reissue/1971] (Superior Viaduct)  
Philip Glass, the great American composer, was already in his mid-30s before his first album appeared, and then only because he produced the double LP himself. Music With Changing Parts was the inaugural release on his own Chatham Square imprint in 1971. At this point, Einstein on the Beach, Glass' first opera, was still five years away. Yet in Changing Parts, one can already hear much of his vocabulary in full bloom: the buoyant arpeggios, the melding of electronic and acoustic instruments, the elongated drones of human voice, the primary emphasis on pulse (an interest he shared with fellow composer Steve Reich) and the ecstatic potential inherent in repetition.The album features the original Philip Glass Ensemble-the composer himself, along with Jon Gibson, Dickie Landry, Art Murphy, Steve Chambers and Robert Prado-playing Farfisa organs and woodwinds as well as Barbara Benary on electric violin.

NINA NASTASIA - On Leaving LP [Reissue/2006] (Temporary Residence)
NINA NASTASIA & JIM WHITE - You Follow Me LP [Reissue/2007]  (Temporary Residence)
NINA NASTASIA - Outlaster LP [Reissue/2010] (Temporary Residence)
Limited color vinyl reissues from the Los Angeles songwriter, remastered for vinyl by Josh Bonati in 2025.

RUPAUL - Foxy Lady (30th Anniversary) LP [Reissue/1996] (Tommy Boy Music)   RuPaul's Foxy Lady is a high-gloss, funk-infused pop statement that captures the superstar at the height of her '90s cultural takeover. Released in 1996 as the follow-up to her breakthrough Supermodel of the World, the album delivered club-ready hits like ‘Snapshot,’ which became a Top 5 smash on the Billboard Dance chart and solidified RuPaul's status as a dance-floor powerhouse.

FLIPPER - Generic Flipper LP [Reissue/1982] (Superior Viaduct) 
Generic Flipper, the debut album by Flipper, remains the most absorbing full-length LP to emerge from the early San Francisco punk scene. A constant source of imitation for so-called “noise rock” bands, it has yet to be surpassed in its nihilistic glee. Recorded between October 1980 and August 1981 and released in 1982 on the indispensable Subterranean Records, this album functions as a chaotic, sticky mass of individual personalities: the magma-like bass eruptions and dual vocals of Will Shatter and Bruce Loose, Ted Falconi’s icy guitar scraping and the relentless beat of drummer Steve DePace. At times playful and taciturn, paranoid and absurd, Generic charts a deliberate path that willfully chances destruction.

SEKO  - Seko 1000 LP (Sneaky Flute Empire)  
Debut EP form the Pasadena based shoe-gaze band.

SULTANS - Ghost Ship LP [Reissue/2000] (Swami) 
Sultans Ghost Ship LP was originally released on Sympathy For The Record Industry in 2000. While Rocket From the Crypt looked for a new drummer, Speedo (armed with an 8 track tape machine and 3 microphones) devised yet another alias as “Slasher” and concocted this primordial ooze of moped scuzz, punk rock and roll. Ghost Ship was met with enthusiasm by those seeking blistering relief from the weak, whiny, wretched and wimpy wannabes du jour. The sound is full on, straight ahead with only starting gates and finish lines between songs. The band played some shows around California and would slightly evolve on their second LP Shipwrecked. Ghost Ship is Sultans at their most thuggish and hairiest. Taking inspiration from Australia’s Chosen Few, Ramones bootlegs, Misfits bootlegs and then challenging themselves to be as thrifty and impatient as possible, the songs are intentionally brief, similar and burly.

COMING NEXT WEEK!
ZOH AMBA - Eyes Full CD/LP
JALEN NGONDA - Doctrine Of Love CD/LP
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE - I Built You A Tower CD/LP
MODEST MOUSE - Eraser And A Maze CD/LP
OF MONTREAL - Aethermead CD/LP
RED CLAY STRAYS - Grateful CD/LP
SLIFT - Fantasia CD/LP
VINCE STAPLES - Cry Baby CD/LP
WIDOWSPEAK - Roses CD/LP
BEDOUINE - Neon Summer Skin CD/LP
BLOOD INCANTATION - All Gates Open CD/LP
DEER TICK - Coin-O-Matic CD/LP
DJ SEINFELD - If This Is It CD/LP
NINE INCH NAILS - Tron Ares: Divergence LP
NIALL HORAN - Dinner Party LP
SIERRA FERRELL - Live At Third Man LP