Top Sellers - September 2026

10. CHAT PILE - Who Loves The Sun CD/LP/CASS (Flenser)  
In a world increasingly shaped by disposable content, Chat Pile answer with something defiantly real and organic, a mentality that permeates Who Loves The Sun, their third full-length record. Since the band's formation just over six years ago, the Oklahoma City-based quartet Chat Pile has grown from a scrappy passion project into one of the defining heavy acts to emerge from the 2020s underground. Ray B. (vocals), L. Manhole (guitar), Stin (bass), and Cap'n Ron (drums) create a crushing, crass, and cathartic take on noise rock that captures a raw, undeniably human essence in an age marked by technological overreach and the cold state of society.

9. MOS DEF - Ecstatic LP [Reissue/2009] (Rhymesayers)
Originally released in June 2009, The Ecstatic stands as a defining artistic statement from Mos Def (now known as Yasiin Bey) - a richly textured return to form that reaffirmed his status as one of hip-hop's most adventurous and intellectually engaged voices. Arriving a decade after his celebrated debut Black on Both Sides, the album was widely regarded as his strongest work in years, earning near-universal praise for it's lyrical breadth, eclectic production, and thematic ambition. Musically, The Ecstatic weaves a global sonic tapestry shaped by anarray of forward-thinking producers including Madlib, J Dilla, Oh No, Preservation, Mr. Flash, Chad Hugo (of The Neptunes), and Georgia Anne Muldrow. The resulting soundscape is both rooted in hip-hop tradition and unbound by genre, integrating elements of jazz, soul, Middle-Eastern inflection, and experimental sample work.

8. BECK - Ride Lonesome CD/LP (Capitol)  
Beck returns with Ride Lonesome, his first album of all-new material since 2019’s Hyperspace. Harkening back to the rich, atmospheric sounds of Morning Phase and Sea Change, the album reunites Beck with musicians from those acclaimed releases. Produced by Beck and mixed by Nigel Godrich, Ride Lonesome marks a compelling return to the intimate, cinematic style that defines some of his most celebrated work.

7. BOY HARSHER - Get Mean CD/LP/CASS (Atlantic)  
Boy Harsher returns with Get Mean, a dark and cinematic collection that expands the duo's signature blend of synth-pop, industrial textures, and pulsing darkwave. Atmospheric and hypnotic, the album balances brooding electronic production with infectious melodies, showcasing the band's evolving sound while retaining the intensity that has made them a standout force in modern electronic music.

6. SHE WANTS REVENGE - She Wants Revenge LP [Reissue/2006]  (Geffen Records)  
First official repress since it's OG release on January 31, 2006! The eponymous debut album from She Wants Revenge features their Platinum single, ‘Tear You Apart’ + ‘These Things’ and more!

5. SYLVAN ESSO - Ow ∞ CD/LP/CASS (Psychic Hotline)  
On their new album, Sylvan Esso metabolizes a life of making music with people into making art that you just love, a tactile and enveloping freefall. Written across four years in the woods in Chapel Hill, the longest the band has ever spent writing a record, Ow ∞ (pronounced 'Ow Infinity') arrives with an intense immediacy. Most of the tracks here are Meath's first vocal takes, and the clarity and humanness of her singular voice anchors the album in something real. It was born from a time of experimentation and collaboration, resulting in a sinewy, punchy, explosive work where the songs want to claw their way out. A technicolor totem of personal destruction, the feeling of being pummeled to silly putty and built back into something that feels almost human, almost familiar but freakish and new - a cartoonish, slapstick grin printed across a ruin.

4. LEON BRIDGES - Happiness Anytime CD/LP (Columbia Records)  
Leon Bridges presents Happiness Anytime, his highly-anticipated fifth studio album produced by J. Lloyd and Lydia Kitto of Jungle. The album's title serves as both a mission statement and an invitation. It's music you can put on no matter how you're feeling and be immediately transported somewhere coastal and warm. In crafting the album, Leon Bridges focused on feeling, storytelling, and his vocal performance. Lydia Kitto brought melodic intuition and harmonic detail, and J. Lloyd shaped the production, arrangements, and sonic structure. The result is an album that feels unusually cohesive, like three musicians discovering a shared vision, drawing inspiration from Fela Kuti's Afrobeat, Brazilian music, soul, disco, and South American rhythms

3.PHOEBE BRIDGERS - Lost Weekend CD/LP/CASS (Dead Oceans)
Phoebe Bridgers is a singer-songwriter from Pasadena, CA. Beloved in equal measure for her deceptively subtle voice and her meticulous, incisive lyrics, her solo records Stranger in the Alps (2017) and Punisher (2020) have been accompanied by a number of collaborations, including the supergroup boygenius, with whom Bridgers won three Grammys for 2023's the record. Her songs are hallmarked by a kind of intimacy that's hard-found in contemporary music, and scale between the macro and the micro with an ease that's matched only by her towering, prodigious way with words.

2. THIS IS LORELEI - Singer In My Band CD/LP (Matador Records)  
Coming this September: This is Lorelei's first album for Matador Records, The Singer in My Band. The last few years have been transformative for Nate Amos. Between delivering breakout records both as a solo artist - under his This Is Lorelei moniker - and with his band Water From Your Eyes, sold out shows across multiple continents, to seeing some of today's most influential artists cover his songs (MJ Lenderman, Hayley Williams, Jeff Tweedy, Cameron Winter), the ascending songwriter has found his stride. The Singer in My Band takes the building blocks of the Great American Songbook and twists those elemental pieces into new shapes, at once both strangely familiar and endearingly offbeat in Amos' signature style. Written while touring the globe in support of releases from both his bands, The Singer in My Band arrives as the first true road record in Amos' discography. The ideas incubated while daydreaming in the car without access to any instruments, he recalls, so instead of being home and writing on the guitar or a computer, they developed slowly and subconsciously, existing as a sort of intangible thing while looking out the van window. For many years, Amos' This Is Lorelei project was known only to a close knit group of creatives in Chicago, where he relocated in his early 20s and produced hundreds of albums and EP's, tracing the outlines for both of his prolific projects before relocating to New York. In the time since, he's flourished as a wildly creative polymath who is equally adept at slinging heartworn hooks and eyeball-exploding art-pop. These are songs about songwriting as a way of life - messy, debilitating, transcendent - from one of the most gifted contemporary interpreters of the form.

1. FUNKADELIC - Maggot Brain CD/SACD/CASS/LP/2XLP (Org Music)  
Released in 1971, Maggot Brain stands as the towering masterpiece in Funkadelic's groundbreaking catalog. Initially misunderstood upon release, the album is now widely regarded as one of the most influential records of all time. Anchored by Eddie Hazel's otherworldly guitar performance on the legendary title track and featuring enduring favorites like ‘Can You Get To That,’ Maggot Brain redefined the possibilities of funk, rock, and psychedelic music.