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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

Teenage Fanclub’s Do Not Dare to Dream takes its name from Norman Blake’s ‘I Do Not Dare to Dream’, an infectious anthemic song driven by ringing acoustic guitars, joined at the end by duelling electric guitars that wrap around each other like a reassuring hug. Blake says that the title is meant to mock those memes that urge people to ‘dare to dream’, which to him are ‘kind of ridiculous… I don’t think the world works that way’. Teenage Fanclub’s 13th album is full of songs that are calmly resolute, taking stock of the fraught state of the world without succumbing to despair. Blake’s warm, organ washed midtempo ballad ‘Day In the Sun’ and Raymond McGinley’s ‘Over and Over’ both speak to how everyone can find a renewed sense of purpose by opening their hearts. ‘We can still be cheerful and optimistic in the face of things not being great’, McGinley says. ‘My parents’ generation lived in Glasgow when there were bombs falling out of the sky. And here we are, however many years later. Things change’.

Rachel Chinouriri – i think i spoke too soon

release: 16 october 2026

available on translucent blue eco vinyl / vinyl / cd

Laced with dancefloor synth-pop and her signature tender indie sensibility, the record captures the friction between high-sheen glamour and self-doubt. Stepping boldly beyond her critically acclaimed 2024 debut What A Devastating Turn of Events, Chinouriri uses the project to navigate the disorienting haze of her early-to-mid twenties. The result is a profoundly autobiographical body of work that wrestles with sobriety, femininity, and identity while asking: ‘If I continue down this path, will I like who I’ll become?’

the avalanches – no bad memories

release: 16 october 2026

available on yellow double vinyl / blue double vinyl / cd

The 2026 album is inspired by the simultaneously magical and insidious ways that advertising and name-brand technology wraps itself around our memories. It’s an ambivalent ode to the nostalgic pull of commercial jingles and proprietary start-up sounds. The best things in life may be free, but childhood and corporate entertainment products are completely intertwined. The obsession with advertising and consumer technology informs the sonic make-up of the music as a source of raw material out of which the foundations of the tracks were built. No Bad Memories includes features from Jamie xx, Karen O, Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza, Prentiss, and many more.

johnny marr – the age of everything

release: 02 october 2026

available on red vinyl / vinyl / cd

The Age Of Everything is Johnny Marr’s fifth full length studio record. Written in London, developed live on the road across the East Coast of North America and recorded in Manchester, The Age Of Everything captures the energy and tensions of the city. Sharp, fast and dynamic, filled with ideas and possibilities. ‘This is the record that’s been the most cathartic. The title came to me early in the process and became an inescapable idea. It seemed to sum up the way I think a lot of people are feeling. It’s all encompassing, but it’s not necessarily a negative statement. There’s a sense of overwhelm in the culture brought about by technology, but looking at it with a different light, there could also be a sense of possibility’ – Johnny Marr

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