New vinyl re-releases: September 26, 2025

A heaping helping of new vinyl is making its way to your record store shelves this very minute. There's all kinds of old music for everyone, so take a look at some of our picks for this week and see what catches your fancy.

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UNIVERSAL

Outside of a rare interview that landed in, of all places, an in-flight magazine, the members of dream pop group The Sundays have remained largely quiet since they finished promotional duties for their final album, 1997's Static and Silence. The benefit of this decades-long hush is that appreciation for the U.K. quartet has only grown as a result, leading to some wonderful vinyl reissues of their three LPs. This week, Universal graces us with a new edition of Blind, the Sundays' gorgeous 1992 effort that features the stunning tracks "Goodbye," "24 Hours," and "Love," as well as their shimmering cover of the Stones' "Wild Horses." This pressing boasts remastered audio cut at 45 RPM, stretching the music comfortably over two pieces of vinyl. UME

With Pearl Jam continuing to dominate the world of rock music, it's a wonder that it has taken Universal until now to reissue the first EP (1989's Shine) and lone full-length album (1990's Apple) by Mother Love Bone, the glammy rock group co-founded by PJ's Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament, as standalone releases. Until now, both were only available as part of a now out-of-print box set. Or if you were willing to pay upwards of $500, you could have a used copy of the original pressings. Either way, these cost-effective pressings arrive in standard black and limited edition color variations. UME RH

RHINO

It's a little surprising that for a band as big and successful as Genesis, they've never done a super deluxe edition for any of their albums. That streak ends this week, with a big ol' box for 1974's The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, the double concept LP that was their final album with singer Peter Gabriel. (I forget who took over the vocal mic after that, but you can probably Google it.) The 5-LP set includes the original mix of the album plus a 1975 live recording from LA's Shrine Auditorium that was initially released on the Genesis Archive 1967–75 CD box set but has never been on vinyl before. (That Shrine recording features '90s-era overdubs from Gabriel and guitarist Steve Hackett, a point of consternation among fans of the band who would rather hear an un-meddled-with live show. The rumors that this new box would feature a true recording of the actual show appear to be false; the 'dubs endure.) New to the box are a pair of encores from the Shrine show and three demos that are frustratingly not on the vinyl but available as separate downloads. There's also a book and memorabilia, and the box also includes a Blu-ray with a brand-new Dolby Atmos mix overseen by Gabriel and keyboardist Tony Banks. Until quite recently, the original 1974 album mix of The Lamb had been unavailable on wax for some time, as all the pressings since 2001 featured a digital remix by Nick Davis—the lone exception was Analogue Productions' 45 RPM version of The Lamb released in 2023, a 4-LP all-analog rendition that I believe to be sourced from Atlantic's copy tape of the original Charisma master. The source of the Lamb album for this new vinyl set is a Miles Showell remastering "from the 1974 analogue tapes," but my understanding is that Showell always masters from a digital file, so it's likely that it comes from a digital high-res transfer of the UK master tape and not from an analog source. The big box was meant to commemorate The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway's 50th anniversary, but with all things Genesis and Peter Gabriel, things went a little slower than anticipated. At last—it is here, it is now. RHINO NL

SOUNDWAY

Two terrific slabs from Ghanaian guitarist and bandleader Alhaji K. Frimpong are getting widespread distribution, courtesy of Soundway Records. 1976's The Blue Album and 1977's The Blue Album by K. Frimpong and His Cubanos Festivos are vibrant, danceable records that feature the exuberance of highlife, the trancelike elements of Afrobeat, somewhat unorthodox keyboard sounds, and tremendous musicianship and groove from the Cubanos, resulting in something fully intoxicating and unique. The Blue Album got a limited UK release on Record Store Day this year, but now both albums are fully accessible and should not be missed. SOUNDWAY NL

MR. BONGO

My Latin Soul, the lone LP credited to New York ensemble Bobby Matos and the Combo Conquistadores, has long been a crucial text for Latin DJs and musicians. It has fallen in and out of print in the years since its initial release in 1967, but is finally getting a fresh pressing this week courtesy of the always-reliable Mr. Bongo. A perfect blast of aural sunshine for these first days of fall. MR. BONGO RH

CRAFT

Craft's Original Jazz Series trucks along with two new discs this week: First, the Kenny Drew Trio's 1956 self-titled album—featuring pianist Drew, Philly Joe Jones, and Paul Chambers—is a relaxed and nourishing set originally released on Riverside, featuring three of the musicians who would go on to record Coltrane's groundbreaking Blue Train in 1957. And the Sonny Criss Orchestra's Sonny's Dream (Birth of the New Cool) finds Criss's alto sax fronting a nine-piece band performing more through-composed and -arranged pieces that contain elements of big band, soul jazz, post-bop, and maybe just a wayward gaze toward the free jazz sounds that were circling around. Originally released on Prestige, the LA recording features arrangements by Horace Tapscott. Both albums got the all-analog treatment from Kevin Gray at Cohearant, were pressed at RTI, and come inside Stoughton tip-on jackets. CRAFT NL

APE HOUSE

To know me is to know that I love XTC more than most artists. That love, though, does come with limits. I've still never been entirely on board with the band tapping Steven Wilson to remix their studio output, as I've never been completely thrilled with the results (the Oranges & Lemons mix, for example, sounded overly fussed over). So color me skeptical about the new vinyl release of the group's herky-jerky 1979 classic Drums & Wires that uses, according to the listing on Burning Shed, "the celebrated 2014 Steven Wilson mix (with minor revisions)" [emphasis mine]. Does that sound like a good idea? No. Am I still going to buy this version the first chance I get? You're goddamn right I am. BURNING SHED RH

BMG

Fearless: The Anthology 1965–2025 is a somewhat oddly constructed overview of Ron Wood's career. Culled down from a more comprehensive 2-CD set, the double album includes a decent smattering of tracks from the Stones, the Faces, and his collabs with Rod Stewart on blondie's solo albums, as well as a pair of goodies from his enjoyable 1974 solo album I've Got My Own Album to Do. But it's missing anything from the Birds or from his brief stint in the Creation (to be fair, a track from each appears on the CD set). As an overview, it looks weirdly scattershot, but it does contain four new songs for the truly devoted, who almost certainly have all the important stuff already. BMG NL

IMPULSE

Well, this one flew a little under the radar: The mono "mix" of John Coltrane's timeless spiritual-jazz masterpiece A Love Supreme is being made available to the rabble this week, "mastered from the original analog tapes," per Verve (there's some wiggle room there, but let's take that at face value). Ryan K. Smith did the cut, and it was pressed at RTI. So why is this new mono version—not available since the '60s—not the preoccupation of every slobbering vinyl nut this side of the Hoffman forums? Well, apparently the mono mix is a fold-down of the original two-track stereo tape that was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in December 1964 and not a true, dedicated mono mix. To make this more curious, this article say that it is a new mono mix, or rather, a new mono fold-down, and not whatever version they used for the album's initial mono release in 1965. Could it possibly sound any different? The mysteries abound, but there is a chance that this new mono version could be illuminating for hardcore scholars, since the stereo mix features hard panning and the old mono fold-down is not especially well regarded. VERVE/IMPULSE NL

BUREAU B

This new pressing of the 1971 self-titled debut album by German freakniks Faust is the latest in a long line of reissues that have appeared over the past five decades. The gold standard apparently remains a 1982 Japanese edition, but I've heard good things about the version that Recommended Records dropped in 1979 on clear wax. This latest iteration appears to be simply a breakout pressing of the LP included in Bureau B's 2021 boxed set 1971–1974, which, by all accounts sounds excellent. I look forward to finding out for myself when this hits record store shelves this week. BUREAU B RH

BEECHWOOD PARK

The Zombies' Odessey and Oracle is being reissued by the band in mono, and the 1968 masterpiece's bona fides need not be rehashed here (it's in contention for the best album ever recorded, and I'll stand on Pet Sounds' coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that). The accompanying description says it's the first time the mono mix has been on vinyl since 1968, but there was a 2015 pressing on Repertoire that had the mono mix as well, so I'm not quite sure what to believe there. I understand the master tapes are long gone, so this is likely sourced from a decent digital transfer, but this probably isn't going to be a jaw-dropping sonic experience. Still, having Odessey in any format on record store shelves can only be a good thing, and this one has new liner notes written by David Fricke. BEECHWOOD PARK NL

GUERSSEN

We're happy to see some new releases from Guerssen family of labels make their way to US distributors, as the Spanish outfit had to temporarily halt orders to the US because of the tariff situation. And as is their wont, they've found something mega-obscure. California psych band Children of the Mushroom released one classic psychedelic single in 1968 before metamorphosing into Lady, and the Lady LP on Out-Sider collects some previously unreleased 1971 recordings that find the group riding psychedelia's skeletal horse into a horizon of riffy, organ-y, proggy hard rock. OUT-SIDER/GUERSSEN

Cargo rode the adventurous wave of prog that dominated half of the music scene in the UK in 1973 (the other half was dominated by glam, Bowie, Slade, Sweet, etc.). The Burton-on-Trent band's demo failed to get Island Records interested, but now it's been released on Sommor as Delivering the Goods, an almost unfathomably rare recording of which only one acetate copy was known to exist until now. There are high-pitched male vocals, heavy-duty riffing, and experimental song structures, evoking not just the prog bands of the day like Gentle Giant and Yes, but the inescapable forces of Zeppelin. SOMMOR/GUERSSEN NL

GLOSSY MISTAKES

L'Empire des Sons is a sui generis album of lounge pop, no wave, new age, jazz funk, and Gitane-scented French avant-garde. Formed in Saint-Étienne, the ensemble is charmingly youthful and inventive, taking a sideways approach to musical performance, resulting in an album that's by definition unclassifiable, although to me it evokes a Penguin Cafe Orchestra after a steady diet of Steve Reich and Konono Nº1, but, y'know, French. New York's Anthology Recordings released a digital version in 2023, but this is the first time L'Empire des Sons' self-titled debut been on vinyl since it was first released. GLOSSY MISTAKES NL

WARP

Hot on the heels of last year's expanded reissue of Selected Ambient Works Volume II and ahead of next month's re-release of the 1995 compilation Classics comes this expanded edition of Surfing on Sine Waves, the lone album that Aphex Twin released under the name Polygon Window. Issued initially in 1993 as part of Warp Records' Artificial Intelligence series, the album is Richard D. James letting loose on a series of techno and electro tracks marked with his signature hypnogogic drones and ghostly synth squiggles. This triple-LP set features the original LP and a bevy of bonus tracks taken from an EP that preceded Surfing and two tracks released on an extremely limited 12-inch single in 2001. WARP RH

CRIMSON CROW

A fine encapsulation of the British fascination with cosmic Americana, the Hanging Stars' 2016 debut album Over the Silver Lake features plenty of California harmonies and firmament-seeking pedal steel guitar. Blended with a background in British indie, the folk-rock mixture never quite congeals into one thing or another, maintaining an interesting tension in its maelstrom of influences and mythology. It's back on vinyl for the first time since a very limited vinyl run accompanied its original release. CRIMSON CROW NL

FREDERIKSBERG

The People's People Present the Spirit of David was a private-press jazz album recorded and released in Oakland, California, in 1976, featuring an ensemble led by tenor saxophonist Jeff Jones. Original copies now fetch four figures, so New York reissue label Frederiksberg has taken up the mantle of bringing this music to the people—fitting, as part of Jones's initial mission for the People's People project was social outreach and community building through performance. Listening to it now is a fascinating glimpse into a musical hotbed many steps removed from the jazz establishment and all the more vital because of it. FREDERIKSBERG NL

LONDON

Tempe's finest, Meat Puppets, peaked artistically in the 1980s but didn't peak commercially until 1994's Too High to Die, a monumentally successful album that surprisingly has never been re-released... until now. No longer need you try to prize the CD out of the zippered Case Logic folio you, um, inherited from your college dorm roommate, for it is now on shiny new vinyl, allowing you to relive the mumbly vocals, tumbling drums, and indifferently strummed guitars that vaguely defined a generation. It's on Neon JazzBerry vinyl, a color name that literally means nothing, so it's probably just all the color variants left over from The Life of a Showgirl, swirled together. LONDON/RSD ESSENTIALS NL

IPECAC

Melvins collectors are a rabid bunch, happily gobbling up multiple copies of whatever colored vinyl variant and limited 7-inch single that the band releases. This week, they'll have to make some room on their surely already groaning shelves for a trio of reissues from the revered sludge rockers. On tap are new pressings of Freak Puke, a 2012 album credited to Melvins Lite, a trio lineup of the group that found room for Trevor Dunn's standup bass playing to sit within their sonic meat grinder; Everybody Love Sausages, a covers album that finds the band tackling their favorite tracks by David Bowie ("Station to Station"), Throbbing Gristle ("Heathen Earth"), and Roxy Music (a particularly sinister take on "In Every Dream Home..." with Jello Biafra on vocals); and Colossus of Destiny, a live recording of a 1998 gig during which the band messed around on synths and samplers for the better part of an hour before finally spilling over into a bloodcurdling version of "Eye Flys." IPECAC RH

NUMERO GROUP

The short-lived Scottish band Tacoma Radar is seeing their lone full-length, 2004's No One Waved Goodbye, reinvigorated by the musical pearl-divers over at Numero Group. It's a north-of-Hadrian's-Wall take on the slowcore genre that was thriving at the time in the American underground, which in turn naturally owed a great debt to the Scottish indie scene of the late '70s and '80s. Fascinating how these things come full circle. No One Waved Goodbye an enveloping and meditative listen that's simultaneously full of youthful appeal. Numero's reissue includes a second disc with singles and live tracks. NUMERO NL

SUBLIME FREQUENCIES

The contents within Music from the Mountain People of Vietnam might be self-evident from the title, but with Sublime Frequencies' imprint, you know it's going to be an authoritative and important document. Collected over 20 years by Vincenzo Della Ratta, this is the folk music of the Jerai, Banhar, Ede, and Rongao ethnic groups, long-standing subcultures whose traditions are evolving, as all traditions do, so this music captures a moment in time before it vanishes. The music itself is wildly diverse and unclassifiable, with traditional vocal pieces, unorthodox instruments, and a diaspora of influences and purposes. SUBLIME FREQUENCIES NL

RENAISSANCE

There was a mini Dutch Invasion in 1969–1970, when Shocking Blue and Tee-Set finagled their way onto the US hit parade. The latter of those acts has a new double-LP collection, Anthology 1966–1979, which naturally contains their big international hit "Ma Belle Amie," plus a lot of songs that did numbers in their native Netherlands, like the suspiciously titled "She Likes Weeds." Not really part of the rawer Nederbeat movement of the '60s and with a much poppier sound than Holland's other big export of the era, Golden Earring, Tee-Set were a sort of whimpering pre-echo to the power-pop and Europop movements that would develop during the 1970s—and now there are two easily accessible discs of their stuff at the ready. RENAISSANCE NL

OTHER REISSUES OF NOTE
Grachan Moncur III: New Africa [BYG]
The Fall: Hex Enduction Hour [Cherry Red]
Sigur Rós: Takk… (20th anniversary) [Krunk]
Air: Premiers Symptômes, The Virgin Suicides Redux [Rhino/Parlophone]
Pascal Comelade: Improperis: Compositions et enregistrements magnétiques (1984-2024) [Because]
Safari: Safari [WRWTFWW]
Autechre: Untilted; Quarastice [Warp]
The Only Ones [Music On Vinyl]
Stan Getz: Live at Zardi’s 1956, Vols. I & II [The Lost Recordings]
Chuck Mangione: The Feeling’s Back [Chesky]
Bill Mackay & Ryler Walker: Land of Plenty [Drag City]
Trio Ternura: "A Gira" 7-inch [Vampisoul]
René van Helsdingen: Coal Mining [Sdban]
The Toy Dolls: Absurd-Ditties; One More Megabyte [Radiation Reissues]
Coil vs. Elph: Born Again Pagans [Infinite Fog]
The Happy Moog! [Iron Mountain Analogue Research]
Various Artists: Hillbillies in Hell: Hillbilly Wolf 1952–1972 [Iron Mountain Analogue Research]
Alan Sorrenti: Di Notte [Universal Italy]
The Bevis Frond: Any Gas Faster [Fire]
Bing Crosby: White Christmas soundtrack [Sepia]
Françoise Hardy: Messages Personnels; J'ecoute de la musique saoule; Entr'acte; Clair-obscur; Quelques titres que je connais d'elle Vols. I & II [Rhino/Parlophone]
Rachel's: Handwriting [Touch and Go/Quarterstick]
Black Eyed Peas: Bridging the Gap [Interscope]
Cher: The Farewell Tour [Warner]
Damien: Candle of Life: The 1992 Demo Tape [Lost Realm]
The Best of Labi Siffre [Demon/Edsel]
M2M: Shades of Purple [Renaissance]
Alpha & Omega: Voice in the Wilderness [Steppas]
Pansy Division: Deflowered [Sounds Rad]
Spike Jones in Stereo: A Spooktacular in Screaming Sound! [Omnivore]
Steve & Teresa: Ocean Blue [Hungry]