New vinyl reissues: October 24, 2025
Once again, it’s a week where there are simply too many vinyl reissues to cover. Labels are racing to cram in their 20th, 30th, 40th, and 50th anniversary reissues before the end of the calendar year, the holiday shopping season is about to hit terminal velocity, and there are just a bunch of other really cool-looking re-releases coming out for no particular reason at all.
These weekly rundowns have begun to sprawl to enormous sizes, and while it takes us a minute to put ’em together, how cool is it that there’s so much to discuss? With this vinyl newsletter being a relatively new endeavor, I think we’re semi-expecting things to taper off once we get closer to Christmas, and that in the new year we’ll have fewer reissues to talk about each week—but for now we’re happily frolicking in the clover patch, experiencing a veritable weekly feast served up on slabs of wax.
So let’s roll up our (virtual) sleeves and see what’s coming.
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Neil Young: Official Release Series #6 [Reprise]
It’s understandable if you’re having trouble keeping track of all the Neil Young reissues. There’s his massive Archives box set series, of which the third volume just made its way to streaming; there are the 50th anniversary album reissues, of which an expanded Tonight’s the Night was recently announced as the newest installment; there are the one-offs, live shows, and alternate albums, some of which were included in the Archives and some of which weren’t, and all of which seem to show up whenever Young feels like it; and there’s his neilyoungarchives.com website running in tandem to all of this, which features everything mentioned above, plus archival concerts for paid subscribers (the recently dropped 1997 Crazy Horse show at Santa Cruz’s Catalyst is a real humdinger, wowee).
So what sets this week’s vinyl box set, Official Release Series #6: Discs 26, 27, 28 & 29, apart from all of that? Well, it contains the four albums Young released between 1992 and 1995, and three of them—1993’s Unplugged, 1994’s Sleeps with Angels, and 1995’s Mirror Ball—haven’t been on vinyl since the 1990s, rendering used copies distressingly expensive. And the fourth, 1992’s gentle, meditative Harvest Moon, has endured as one of the best-loved albums of his entire career. The fact that Sleeps with Angels might be his mid-career masterpiece and Mirror Ball is a phenomenal rock record featuring Pearl Jam as his backing band is just icing on the cake. (Unplugged is, y’know, fine.)
Neil Young trainspotters (raises hand) should know that Mirror Ball features four new mixes by John Hanlon, as some of the tracks were apparently only mixed down to digital. The other three albums seem to come from digital masters; such was the way of things in the early ’90s. Still, Sleeps with Angels is on vinyl again at last! For that reason alone, this jumps on the shortlist of the best reissues of the year. All four albums are split across two LPs, making this a delightfully chonky and reasonably priced 8-LP set. NL
Super Furry Animals: Love Kraft 20th anniversary edition [Strangetown]
Having reached commercial heights with their two previous efforts, 2001’s Rings Around the World and 2003’s Phantom Power, Super Furry Animals had the juice and chutzpah to stretch out a bit on their next move, 2005’s Love Kraft. The band decamped from their native Wales to a studio in Spain, hired Beastie Boys collaborator Mario Caldato Jr. to produce the sessions, and, rather than leave the songwriting duties up to Gruff Rhys, opted to make this a more collective effort. Lead vocal duties were shared by every Furry apart from bassist Guto Pryce, and the material was developed as a group before heading over to mainland Europe. The resulting effort is one of the quintet’s strongest, with a depth of musical field that allows their folkier and more experimental influences to float to the surface. True to their playful spirit, the band is keeping details under wraps about what’s on the 20th anniversary re-release of Love Kraft out this week, outside of remastered audio. My suspicion is that the vinyl edition will be nothing more than a straight repress, with all the B-sides and rarities relegated to the CD and digital versions. That’s a bit of a disappointment, but considering how strong the album is on its own, I'll be satisfied no matter what. RH
Pulp: Different Class 30th anniversary edition [Universal]
After nearly two decades of striving, Sheffield pop group Pulp finally broke into the British cultural consciousness in 1994’s His ’n’ Hers and that album’s two top 40 singles. Buoyed and inspired by this turn, the group poured everything they had into their follow-up, Different Class, a masterpiece of class consciousness, sexual politics, and sticky youthful diary entries filtered through the lens of shaking and at times nasty glam pop. It scored the band a Mercury Prize, a headlining gig at Glastonbury, and four top 10 singles—all achievements worthy of being celebrated in a 4-LP reissue out this week. Two of the four discs are the album, remastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road at 45 RPM, with the other two feature the full Glasto set in all its triumphal glory. RH
Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska 82 [Sony Legacy]
I haven’t seen Deliver Me from Nowhere yet—and just going by the trailer, my excitement level is decidedly mid—but this archival release from Bruce Springsteen may very well justify its existence. A deep dive into the 1982 recordings that surrounded Springsteen’s solo acoustic Nebraska album, the four-LP set (with bonus Blu-ray) augments the original LP with outtakes, demos, and a recent live performance of the album in full. The famed “electric Nebraska” is here despite denials that it ever existed, although this looks more to be E Street Band sessions from around that period, which included some Nebraska songs and an early, bluesy take on “Born in the U.S.A.” that is desolate enough to send chills down the spine of any Republican politician looking for an easy campaign song. NL
The Clientele: The Violet Hour [Merge]
The Clientele’s 2003 debut album The Violet Hour was a much-anticipated affair, as the British trio had accumulated all manner of buzz following a series of fantastic 7-inch releases that announced a new force in the world of literate, dreamy psychedelic pop. The full-length fulfilled every bit of that promise with a gloriously hazy sound, deceptively simple arrangements, and the delirious combination of Alasdair MacLean’s breathy voice and his lustrous, finger-picked guitar work. Somehow, this album has never been widely available on vinyl outside of the UK before, but that oversight is being rectified by Merge Records with a new pressing that hits record store racks this week. RH
Field Music: Field Music 20th anniversary edition [Memphis Industries]
The absolutely brilliant, criminally underrated Sunderland, UK, trio Field Music released their precocious self-titled debut album 20 years ago, and it’s being plucked from the annals of history and thrust back into the here and now, via an anniversary reissue that includes a second disc. Just having the album itself, a skewed pop masterwork, back within easy grasp of record buyers is enough to warrant a high holy holiday on its own, due to Field Music’s shapeshifting arrangements, indelibly clever indelible melodies, and small-scale productions that are hopeless in preventing each stunning track from taking on epic proportions. But also be aware that the extra disc includes, for the first time on vinyl, the B-side compilation Write Your Own History—its every song the equal of the album tracks—augmented by three previously unreleased songs, and there are liner notes with an essay by James Snodgrass plus “archive material from the North East music milieu which gave birth to Field Music, the Futureheads, Maximo Park, and more.” There, done, sold, go out and get it. And with this wonderful record securely in your collection, the only thing to do now is to run out and find everything Field Music and its assorted side projects ever released. NL
Rhino Rocktober
Rhino’s Rocktober campaign carries on with a bevy of reissues this week—a bevy, we tell you. Highlights include Ministry, Warren Zevon, and Mr. Bungle, plus a Rhino Reserve all-analog pressing of Fleetwood Mac’s Bare Trees. We’ll drill down into those in a separate Vinyl Cut newsletter, coming to your inbox tomorrow. (You’re subscribed, right?) NL
Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom 30th anniversary edition [Sony]
By the time Cypress Hill had released their third album III (Temples of Boom), they were already well-known in the hip-hop community for their unbridled love of weed and their secret weapon in DJ Muggs, whose gritty productions for the group lent their songs a dark, seamy air that inspired generations of crate-diggers and beatmakers. Something about the 1995 album felt darker and more paranoid than anything the group had done up to that point. Gone were the sing-along anthems of “Insane in the Brain” and “Light Another,” replaced by heady excoriations of rap poseurs (“Strictly Hip Hop”) and cinematic collabs with Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA (“Killa Hill Ni**as”). This album has been reissued on vinyl multiple times over the past 30 years, including a European press that was out as recently as 2023, but his new double-LP edition makes great use of the vinyl form by pushing the OG album tracklist onto three sides and adding a few choice remixes on the fourth. RH
The Cramps: Songs the Lord Taught Us; Psychedelic Jungle; Bad Music for Bad People [Universal]
The vinyl universe isn’t lacking for pressings of albums by the Cramps, the premier garage-sleaze rock combo led by the indefatigable vocalist Lux Interior and his partner-in-crime guitarist Poison Ivy. But as it is Halloween season, the folks at Universal are putting even more into circulation this week, with new pressings of 1984’s Bad Music for Bad People, a signature release compiling tracks released on 7-inch singles by the band in the late ’70s; 1981’s Psychedelic Jungle, a blend of fearsome originals and covers of rare rockabilly sides; and 1980’s Songs the Lord Taught Us, a nasty bit of work produced by Big Star’s Alex Chilton. There ain’t nothing wrong with seeing these LPs in shops once again, nor with Universal’s choice to offer up Psychedelic on glow-in-the-dark wax and Songs on fluorescent green wax in addition to regular black vinyl pressings. But the reality is that a little digging is all it’s going to take for you to find a reasonably priced used copy of any of the above Cramps discs. The choice is yours. RH
Elton John: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy 50th anniversary edition [Universal]
If it’s been feeling an awful lot like 1975 around the vinyl world, that’s due to all the 50th anniversary reissues we’ve been getting. And no record is more 1975 (not even a record by the actual 1975) than Elton John’s Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. The autobiographical concept album covers John’s and lyricist Bernie Taupin’s early years as struggling songwriters and was the first LP to ever enter the charts at number one. While it includes the lovely Beach Boys–indebted “Someone Saved My Life Tonight,” Captain Fantastic’s a bit of an odd-man-out from John’s peak-superstar period in that, apart from that, it doesn’t include any of his best-known songs. Nevertheless, it’s generally agreed to be among his three best albums (the others being Tumbleweed Connection and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road), and this 50th anniversary edition comes on tri-color vinyl with a bonus disc that includes demos and live tracks from 2005. Considering that original US copies are all pretty dismal—due to crummy MCA vinyl and an overly long Side One—it would be nice if we were finally getting a killer Captain Fantastic on vinyl. But I have a strong suspicion that this ain’t it, kid. The reissue includes a 28-page booklet which reconfigures some of the many extras that came in the 1975 version. NL
Loveliescrushing: Bloweyelashwish [Numero Group]
For as much strain as it has put on my bank account, Numero Group’s continued slide away from collecting rare soul and funk sides for reissue into their current heavy focus on emo, punk, and alternative rock has been a delight to witness. And, as always, the imprint finds fresh ways to surprise me, as they did with the announcement of a deluxe reissue of Bloweyelashwish, the debut album by Michigan duo Loveliescrushing. Self-released on cassette in 1993 and reissued widely a year later by Projekt Records, the album is a blissed-out wonder of decaying guitar sounds and squiggling drones, cut through with the smoky siren song of vocalist Melissa Arpin-Dumistra. This double LP re-release tucks five bonus tracks from the era onto Side Four and, in the deluxe edition, includes a repress of the 1995 7-inch Youreyesimmaculate. RH
Squarepusher: Stereotype [Warp]
Just before he had taken on the moniker of Squarepusher, Tom Jenkinson dropped a very limited-edition LP into the world in 1994 under the name Stereotype. Even at this early stage, the Essex-born musician had a sense of rhythm and arrangement that applied a free-jazz patina to the typical acid-house formula on tracks like “Whooshki” and “Greenwidth.” Long out of print since its initial run of 100 copies, the album, dubbed Stereotype, is being reissued via Jenkinson’s longtime label Warp. The audio has been remastered from the original tapes and, crucially, the music has been recut as a double LP, which will hopefully allow these tense, bottom-heavy rhythms to have some much-needed sonic breathing room. RH
Cowboy Junkies: One Soul Now [Cooking Vinyl]
While they’ve never returned to the commercial heights of their double-platinum album The Trinity Session, Cowboy Junkies have quietly cultivated one of the most consistent and satisfying discographies, carrying a deep, warm sound that is particularly conducive to being heard on vinyl. Thankfully, the Canadian band has been re-releasing much of their back catalog on wax over the past few years, and this week that campaign lands on their 2004 LP One Soul Now. The record is a jewel of the Junkies’ catalog, with the group applying a healthy dose of Crazy Horse-like guitar heat to their already smoldering tunes. RH
George Kooymans: Jojo [Music on Vinyl]
Golden Earring guitarist George Kooymans passed away in July 2025, and while the Dutch band was one of the longest-lived rock bands of all time (I think at this point, only the Stones have got them beat), Kooymans took a few opportunities to record some solo albums in between Earring LPs. Jojo was the first, coming in 1971, after Golden Earring had conquered their home country and not long before their international breakthrough with “Radar Love” and Moontan. A low-key affair that featured top-notch Dutch session musicians, Jojo is a charming, rainy-day singer/songwriter album that features Kooymans’s pleasant singing voice, strong songwriting chops, and excellent lead guitar, which at times wields a tone that presages the sounds Neil Young would eventually hit on later in the ’70s. Music on Vinyl pressed this on green vinyl back in March, but it’s nice to see it getting a black-vinyl treatment following Kooymans’s death. While Music on Vinyl always presses from digital, they are touting the remastering job on this one, so chances are it was done with care. NL
Little Feat: The Last Record Album 50th anniversary [Rhino]
Confusingly, Little Feat’s The Last Record Album wasn’t their last record album—they had two more studio records and the live Waiting for Columbus in the chamber before they disbanded after Lowell George’s death in 1979. But it did come out in 1975, which means it’s getting a 50th anniversary box set, with outtakes and a complete live show. The 2-LP vinyl configuration doesn’t include the live stuff—I imagine that will turn up separately as a Record Store Day release or something—but does include a second LP of alternate versions, demos, and rough mixes. The album itself finds Little Feat on the downslope after hitting their peak with 1973’s Dixie Chicken, with George’s once-dominant songwriting input elbowed out by less, uh, successful efforts from other band members, occasionally sending the band into fusion-adjacent territory. To add to the confusion of the album title, this Rhino release does not appear to be part of the label’s otherwise all-encompassing Rocktober campaign, so don’t embarrass yourself at the record counter. NL
Daphni: Jiaolong; Joli Mai [Jiaolong]
Dan Snaith had dabbled plenty in dancefloor friendly beats in his work as Caribou, but he leaned into that zone hard when, in 2012, he unveiled a new sobriquet, Daphni, and released the brilliant album Jiaolong. The nine songs on this LP were pure, uncut disco-inflected house and boogie-funk, capped off by well-chosen vocal samples and a spirit-lifting quality worthy of pioneers like Sylvester and Patrick Cowley. Snaith is dropping a repress of that album on vinyl this week, as well as a reissue of Joli Mai, a 2017 release built from original material he recorded for an acclaimed DJ set put together for FABRICLIVE, the mix series overseen by London nightclub Fabric. RH
Gaspar Lawal: Ajomasé [Strut]
Nigerian percussionist Gaspar Lawal made his hay as a performer in the UK during the ’60s and ’70s, working as a session musician for the likes of Stephen Stills, Ginger Baker’s Air Force, and Babe Ruth. But along the way, this master musician formed groups of his own, including the truly brilliant Afriki Sound and starting his own label Cap Sounds. It’s through that imprint that Lawal released his first solo album Ajomasé in 1980. No less hypnotic than the work of his countryman Fela Kuti, there’s a distinct uplift to the music and some dubby production choices that give the whole affair a psychedelic edge. Somehow it took until just this year for a label to re-release this Afrobeat classic, and for that, we have to praise Strut Records, who have remastered the music from the original tapes and included liner notes from Lawal himself. RH
Avril A: Housewife Superstar [Memory Dance]
Avril A was the stage name of Avril Eventhal, a British housewife who became a cult sensation in the queer clubs of her native Manchester in the ’80s and ’90s, with a kitschy stage show that embraced the technopop and post-punk of the era and the signifiers of her day-to-day life as she donned a leopard housecoat and whipped around a feather duster. As part of an archival effort undertaken by curator Joanne Rosenthal following Avril’s death in 2017, a compilation of the singles that the artist released during her lifetime, dubbed Housewife Superstar, is being issued this week via the always wonderful Sheffield label Memory Dance. RH
Tom Waits: Nighthawks at the Diner [Anti]
Reissued as recently as 2018, Tom Waits’s boozy and hilarious “live” album Nighthawks at the Diner is getting a new vinyl edition this week on colored wax to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its initial release. As the story goes, Waits set up shop at LA’s Record Plant, turning the studio in a mini-supper club where a group of invited guests were brought into watch, sip on cocktails, and react to the singer/songwriter and a small, versatile combo of musicians (including saxophonist Pete Christlieb). Interspersed with Waits’s sharply witty stage banter, the songs were a knock-kneed mix of cocktail jazz, gutbucket blues, and Beat poetics, only made more enjoyable by the hopped-up energy of the folks hooting and cooing in the background. RH
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Tarkus [Mobile Fidelity]
Following up their reissue of Emerson, Lake & Palmer last month, MoFi takes on the prog trio’s second album Tarkus, from 1971, with a 33 RPM rendition cut from a copy tape fed through MoFi’s DSD tech, and then cut to vinyl. Featuring the side-long title suite, in which the armadillo tank depicted on the album cover battles a manticore, the album finds ELP relying chiefly on their own compositions, without the classical interpolations that appeared on their first LP or the Pictures at an Exhibition live performance album that would follow (although bits of Bach would turn up in “The Only Way”). NL
Toshiyuki Sekine Trio: Love for Sale
Love for Sale, a fantastic recording of the jazz trio made up of pianist Toshiyuki Sekine, bassist Osamu Kawakami, and drummer Hideo Yamaki, was originally released in 1978 on Audio Lab. Record, the Japanese label responsible for a wealth of other amazing classical and jazz titles. And now the album is getting its first official vinyl re-release this week, also via Audio Lab., which should help cut into the collector’s prices the ’78 edition is commanding these days. And it will help spread the good word about this fantastic trio that was the equal of other great small ensembles like the Bill Evans Trio or any group led by Vince Guaraldi. RH
So Savoeun: The Golden Voice of Phnom Penh, 1962–1974 [Akuphone]
The Discogs listings for Cambodian vocalist So Savoeun are surprisingly meager, considering the outsized impact she had on the popular music scene of her home country in the ’60s and ’70s. Working with fellow singers like Meas Samon and Huoy Meas, she gave a tart zing to her renditions of traditional songs from her home country, even as the musical arrangements folded in the influences of the time like psychedelic pop and funk. Akuphone, the French archival label, is helping fill in the gaps in Savoeun’s online discography this week with the release of The Golden Voice of Phnom Penh, 1962–1974, a glorious compilation that cherry-picks some sweet gems from the many recording sessions the musician undertook before she was forced to flee to France in 1975. RH
Jazz, Jazz, and More Jazz
The high-quality jazz reissues just keep coming and coming, so let’s hope the truly dedicated have enough spare cash and shelf space to acquire them all. This week includes two new entries in Craft Recordings’ revived Original Jazz Classics series: Yusef Lateef’s 1957 debut Jazz Mood and Hank Mobley’s 1957 album Jazz Message #2, both of which were cut all-analog at Kevin Gray’s Cohearant Audio and pressed at RTI. Next, the Verve series from Acoustic Sounds drops three new titles: Ben Webster’s King of the Tenors from 1954 (in which Webster is accompanied by the Oscar Peterson Trio); Getz Meets Mulligan in Hi-Fi, the 1957 LP featuring Stan Getz and Gerry Mulligan (in mono); and 1959’s Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges, whose title should be self-explanatory. All three of these were cut from analog by Matt Lutthans at Acoustic Sounds’ Mastering Lab in Salina, Kansas, and pressed at the nearby Quality Record Pressing plant. Lastly, Blue Note is offering a previously unreleased 1965 gig from Horace Silver called Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse, recorded for radio in Seattle, with mastering, once again, by Matt Lutthans of the Mastering Lab, and Zev Feldman overseeing production. NL
OTHER REISSUES OF NOTE:
America: Holiday Harmony [Green Hill Productions]
Wally Badarou: Simple Things [Be With]
Belzebong: Greenferno [Heavy Psych Sounds]
Branko: Atlas [Enchufada]
Kate Bush: The Best of the Other Sides [Fish People]
Ray Charles: Love Country Style [Tangerine]
Joe Cocker: With a Little Help from My Friends; Joe Cocker! [A&M]
Sam Cooke: Night Beat [Music on Vinyl]
Cream: Royal Albert Hall 2005 [Surfdog]
Celia Cruz: The Queen of Salsa [Craft]
Benjamin Diamond: Strange Attitude [TMS]
Von Freeman: Never Let Me Go [Steeplechase]
George Harrison: George Harrison; Somewhere in England; Gone Troppo [Dark Horse]
HIM: Razorblade Romance [BMG]
Houston Calls: A Collection of Short Stories [Drive-Thru]
King Crimson: Lizard (Elemental Mixes) [DGM]
Krokus: Hardware [Music on Vinyl]
Gordon Lightfoot: Summertime Dream [Friday Music]
Elsio Mancuso & Berto Pisano: Nude Per L’Assassino [Four Flies]
Don Martin Three: To Sketch an Arrow [Numero Group]
Ayalew Mesfin: Hasabe - My Worries [Vampisoul]
Mew: Frengers [Music on Vinyl]
Ennio Morricone: Copkiller OST [Quartet]
Oscillations: I Can See It Coming [Strawberry Rain/Sharp-Flat]
Pavement: Heckler’s Choice: Big Gums and Heavy Lifters [Matador]
Carl Perkins: Some Things Never Change [Sun]
Lee Scratch Perry: Africa’s Blood [Music on Vinyl]
Popol Vuh: In Der Garten Pharaos [Esoteric]
Tito Puente: Dance the Cha Cha Cha [Descarga]
Chalino Sánchez: Más Éxitos con Chalino Sánchez [Craft]
Shed Seven: Let It Ride [Proper]
Martial Solal & Michel Legrand: Jean-Luc Godard Soundtrack Music from A Bout de Souffle, Une Femme Est une Femme, Vivre Sa Vie [French Connection]
Tessa Souter: Shadows & Silence: The Erik Satie Project [Noanara Music]
The Staple Singers: Let’s Do It Again [Music on Vinyl]
The Subways: When I’m With You [Cooking Vinyl]
The Sugarhill Gang: Essential Cuts [BMG]
Johnny Thunders: Que Sera Sera: Resurrected [Jungle]
Wau y los Arrrghs!!!: Punk from the Vault; Copa, Raya, “Paliza” 7-inch [Munster]
Various Artists: El Bailador de la Esquina: Salsa Dura from the Discos Fuentes Vaults (1974–1985) [Vampisoul]
Various Artists: Let Me Down Easy: Echoes from Cheri Records [Miles Away]
Various Artists: Pase Bel Tan: Francophonies & Creolities in Louisiana [Flee]
