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october 2026
Instant classics only – check out the essential new vinyl taking over our turntables.
queens of the stone age – perfecth
release: 30 october 2026
available on petrol vinyl / vinyl / cd
Queens of the Stone Age have always remained enduringly, singularly magnetic. It isn’t just their sound. It’s their spirit. They are provocative in the most essential sense: unafraid to explore the dark, the sexual, the surreal, the absurd. It’s art that snarls and seduces in equal measure, and never more so than on the band’s ninth album, Perfecth, due Oct. 30th from Matador Records. Birthed from sessions tracked everywhere from New Orleans to Los Angeles, the music is fearless and boundless, moody and menacing, gentle and strange. Here, Queens have moved a career’s worth of jagged pieces into alignment. ‘Every song sounds like it’s from a different world’, says Homme. ‘And that’s on purpose, because it’s trying to stitch together all these emotions revolving around love, lust, foolishness, and the sort of wisdom that comes as a gift from all that’.

fontaines d.c – dopamine chamber
release: 16 october 2026
available on blue vinyl vinyl / vinyl / fopp exclusive alt. artwork cd / cd
Fontaines D.C. announce their fifth studio album, Dopamine Chamber, released on 16th October 2026 via XL Recordings. Produced by James Ford, it is the follow-up to 2024’s UK platinum-certified Romance – and the sound of a band moving decisively away from the guitar language of their early records into something colder, stranger and more synthetic. Dopamine Chamber arrives like a constellation behind undulating sighs of smog: potent balladry, anthemic melodies glinting through the murk. In a world tipping towards collapse, it asks how pleasure mutates amid peril – and what our pursuit of it reveals about us. Across the album, Fontaines D.C. – Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll – move between gratification and dread until the two meld together, reflecting the overwhelm of artificial intelligence, environmental collapse and political violence all riding the same algorithms as memes, jokes and celebrity culture. ‘The album itself is a dopamine chamber’, says Chatten. ‘You step inside and we test these different mind- or mood-altering pieces of music on you’.

troye sivan – she’s the best
release: 09 october 2026
available on fopp exclusive navy vinyl / vinyl / cd
Following the whirlwind success of Something to Give Each Other and the massive SWEAT Tour, Troye Sivan found himself returning from hypersexual, packed arenas to silent, empty hotel rooms. That stark contrast inspired She’s the Best. Moving away from the high-gloss production of his previous era, the album balances late-night club tracks with quiet, vulnerable pop to map out love, isolation, and lingering desire. Built to be heard uninterrupted from start to finish, it trades neat explanations for a moody, unvarnished look at what happens after the crowd goes home.

cameron winter – live at carnegie hall
release: 09 october 2026
available on deep red double vinyl / double vinyl / cd
Cameron Winter’s Live At Carnegie Hall documents the Geese frontman’s historic December 2025 performance. Alone at the piano, he reshapes songs from his acclaimed debut Heavy Metal and debuts three previously unreleased compositions, each one pointing toward where his songwriting is headed next. There is an undeniable sense of occasion running through the performance, capturing the momentous feeling of witnessing an artist stepping into the spotlight in real time. The release preserves one unforgettable night while cementing Winter’s emergence as one of the defining voices of his generation, with the sense that this is only the beginning.

Meshell Ndegeocello – synonym
release: 09 october 2026
available on double vinyl / cd
With her 3rd Blue Note album Synonym, Meshell Ndegeocello presents a remarkable album of duets on classic songs that are known, loved, and diverse in tone, ‘genre’, intent, and BPM. This is an album about joy, love, selfhood, individual representation and universal experience that explores expressions of desire, care, heartbreak, friendship, disappointment, and love in all the forms. All the songs feature two singers who identify as the same gender, wherever that might be on the continuum, and are musically matched for contrast or compliment including Cynthia Erivo, Cat Power, Robert Glasper, Chaka Khan, Madison Cunningham, Laura Lee (Khruangbin), Emily King, Lizz Wright, Lianne La Havas, Moses Sumney, Brandi Carlile, ANOHNI, WILLOW, Bill Callahan, Chris Thile, and more.

vanishing twin – archives
release: 02 october 2026
available on vinyl / cd
Shapeshifting trio Vanishing Twin present their new album Archives, a collage of postmodern songcraft that finds transcendence in the shared experience of creation. The album’s title alludes to Vanishing Twin’s distinctive approach of listening to, piecing together and reworking daily recording sessions. Founding member Cathy Lucas describes the process as ‘gathering material together, riffing with it, turning it around on itself, trying to put the pieces together and create a story with it’.

teenage fanclub – do not dare to dream
release: 09 october 2026
available on vinyl / cd
queens of the stone age – perfecth