New to the Shop
Whilst this is the place to see all the new releases that have landed in the store this week, we don't just rely on new releases or reissues to keep the stock fresh, we spend hours researching and unearthing the hidden gems and future favourites that might otherwise get overlooked. Spanning our favourite genres, these are the records that have recently arrived in store for the first time - new or old.
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Truthdare Doubledare’ marked a significant change in the direction of synth-pop trio Bronski Beat as a band, with vocalist Jimmy Somerville leaving and being replaced with John Jøn Foster. Whilst maintaining a clear voice in support of gay rights and political activism, the production gave way to a rougher and rawer style, featuring more real instruments, ever-powerful lyrics and more variety in genre. This never-before reissued album features the Number Three single ‘Hit That Perfect Beat’, a full remaster, new remixes and unreleased live and studio versions.
A document of singular rarity. Issued by United Dairies in 2026 in a hand-made, heavy-gauge black vinyl edition limited to 300 copies, 1984 - A Happening recovers the second ever public performance of Nurse With Wound, captured on tape in 1984 and held in Steven Stapleton's archive across the four decades since.
Trombonist / composer Robinson Khoury is one of the most prominent and visible rising stars on the French jazz and cross-genre scene. A charismatic live performer, his breakthrough came in 2024 with the album ‘MŸA’, featuring his trio with percussionist Anissa Nehari and keyboardist Léo Yassef. This group, in which Khoury plays not just trombone but also modular synths - he sings as well - became a tightly-knit and vibrant musical unit, with the title of their debut album becoming the band name Robinson Khoury MŸA. The trio now take centre stage on their ACT debut album, ‘Transara’.
For the first time ever: the long-lost recordings of Birmingham roots reggae pioneers Naturs mastered from the original tapes by Guy Davie at Electric Needle Mythology, the label founded by music writer, author and broadcaster Pete Paphides, is thrilled to announce the archival release of newly-discovered recordings by Birmingham reggae band Natrus.
Freddie McGregor's debut album Mr. McGregor was released in 1979. The album opens with "We Got Love" featuring a Tower of Power influenced horn section underneath McGregor's tale of love conquering all. The classic "Rastaman Camp" combines muted horn and an earthy, Nyahbinghi-like chorus for one of producer Niney's deeper constructions, but the lightweight fare is equally welcome as the easy strolling and not too sugary version of "Brandy" displays.
Spacemoth’s Inward Eye is a journey through inner and outer worlds, blending cosmic psychedelic pop with pulsating rhythms and looping textures inspired by nature and memory. Written on the road and shaped in motion, the album is a collection of hypnotic, cyclical songs that balance precision and openness, inviting listeners to drift through their own emotional landscapes.
Reverie is the first full-length collaboration between Ori Kaplan and Lihu Melamed - a cinematic, soul-soaked LP that drifts between modal jazz, cinematic scores and psychedelic rock, released on Batov Records - a record that feels both ancient and immediate: music that evokes old biblical films, sun-bleached Western soundtracks and 70s jazz explorations, while remaining playful, spontaneous and deeply human.
Dennis Brown has always been cited as Jamaica’s favourite singer.
While Bob Marley set out to conquer the world, Dennis’s popularity on the island grew with every year. His most prolific period is said to be with producer Niney the Observer who led the singer down a more roots avenue, putting Dennis on some of his heaviest rhythms.
The mighty Channel One Studios, Kingston, Jamaica, has its place set in Reggae's Musical History. Its distinctive sound the studio created on opening its doors in 1972 to its closure in the early 1980's made it the Producers, Singers and Musicians studio of choice during this furtive period. Achieving that vibe and clarity, separated it from the other Kingston establishments. Run by the Hookim Family's four sons, Jo Jo the eldest followed by Paulie, Ernest and Kenneth.
Playful, fun and exuberant 22-track compilation of French bossa nova from the early 60s and 70s - 2026 repress on green vinyl. Includes tracks by Isabelle Aubret, Christiane Legrand, Jean Constantin, Marpessa Dawn and actress/singer Sophia Loren. Available on CD digipack with 24-page booklet and double LP with printed inner sleeves + download code. The liner notes are in French and English.
Following on from their seminal Light As A Feather LP, Outubro (October) was originally released in 1980 and began Azymuth’s run of prolific output for Milestone Records throughout the decade. Typifying the consummate craftsmanship of the three members’ performances - each with such distinct personality and together so perfectly balanced - their perfectionist attitude to sound is maintained across the production on the album, beautifully colouring the expressionist fusion of samba rhythm, jazz progression, funk attitude and psychedelic electronics.
Gary Bartz and new London ensemble Your Brother‘s Keeper collaborate on Where Rivers Meet, a deeply intuitive new studio album capturing a rare meeting between generations of jazz musicians. The record brings together Bartz’s jazz lineage and a new collective emerging from London’s vibrant jazz scene. The result is music that unfolds with openness and intensity, guided by deep listening and collective improvisation.
Four years on from her acclaimed debut International Love Affair, Tigerbalm (Rose Robinson) returns to Ubiquity Records with the thrillingly kaleidoscopic Bubblegum Discos. Painted in vivid sonic colours, Bubblegum Discos showcases Tigerbalm's two great musical loves: Brazilian musical culture and vintage dancefloor workouts from the African continent, infused with nods to Italo-disco, proto-house and soca
Recorded in New York in 1967, Silk & Soul is Nina Simone’s second album for RCA. The album features "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free", which would become a Civil Rights anthem, "It Be’s That Way Sometimes", written by her brother Sam Waymon, and "The Turning Point", a song that seems to be about a child making a new friend, but turns out to question the origins of racism
Visit Malphino is a 17-track epic that provides the soundboard to years of imaginative cultivation. With clues in the titles, each track represents a different element to the island. It embodies the growth of the Malphino concept from an abstract idea within the minds of a few friends to a more complex fantasy at the centre of a small community of musicians and artists. Speculation is open-ended.
Behind Karen’s pulsating spectral voice lies vulnerability, contemplation and longing. Chameleon-like foundations explore cumbia in its many forms, crossing the continent with Norteño airs, pitched-down rebajados, psychedelia and even traditional Peruvian music, taking in ballads, Afro-Latin percussion, reggaeton and the more electronic sounds of dream-pop, trip hop and downtempo.
In the early 1970s, Roy Ayers formed his own band: Roy Ayers Ubiquity. Its line-up included artists well known to funk and soul fans such as Bernard Purdie, James Mason, and Edwin Birdsong. This 1973 album presents Roy Ayers in the midst of a creative evolution toward a sound increasingly influenced by soul and funk, moving beyond the early phase of his musical career, which was more rooted in orthodox jazz.
New 10th anniversary, fully remastered special Silver vinyl edition of Soul Jazz Records’ ground-breaking ‘Venezuela 70’ featuring Vytas Brenner, Pablo Schneider, Angel Rada, Miguel Angel Fuster and many more.‘Venezuela 70’ was the first ever compilation of its kind to take a look at the fascinating music scene created in Venezuela in the 1970s, a stunning blend of funk, Latin rock, European electronic experimentalism, jazz and more.
Newly remastered and repackaged, Soul Jazz Records’ ‘Gipsy Rhumba’ was first released to much-critical acclaim around the world in 2012. The album is a stunning mix of Latin, funk, flamenco and rhumba rhythms, remaining the first album ever outside of Spain to seriously focus on the history of gipsy rhumba, one of the most interesting musical culture clashes ever that first took place in the early 1960s.
"Hey boys, the show's about to start, this girl's got a voice that will rip out your heart", coos Eve Quartermain with complete justification on 'Avenging Angel’, the opening track to Late Transmissions' debut album, ‘The Heart Wants What It Wants.’ The show that follows across the next ten tracks is a cinematic adventure, evocative of classic widescreen soundtracks and sixties orchestrated pop, with a pinch of jazz and processed 90s noir beats. A potent cocktail!
Originally released in 1968 on the budget Saga label, The Soul of The Matter has become a genuine cult favourite of the British late-sixties soul-pop underground. Long overlooked and pressed in modest quantities, the album quietly built a reputation among collectors as one of those rare low-budget releases where the artistry far outweighed the resources behind it.
8-Tracks features eight essential classics selected from the Pink Floyd’s 1971 – 1979 era. The track list includes instantly recognisable hits alongside earlier cuts in ‘One Of These Days’ and ‘Wot’s… Uh The Deal’, as well as an exclusive full version of ‘Pigs On The Wing’, previously available only on the 1977 Animals 8-Track cartridge release
Remastered for vinyl and expanded with new incarnations - live cuts from NPR's Tiny Desk and the band’s landmark Royal Albert Hall performance - Ezra Collective’s ‘Chapter 7 (10th Anniversary Edition)’ reissue presents ‘Chapter 7’ not simply as an early document, but a living manifesto: rhythm as ritual, youth culture as sanctuary and jazz as an open invitation.
A unique and brilliant collaboration between legendary dub / reggae pioneer Lee “Scratch” Perry and German electronic production duo Mouse on Mars. ‘Spatial, No Problem.’ finds the artists breaking new ground - the one thing Lee was sure of was that this shouldn’t be just another reggae album. It covers everything from Krautrock, ambient, dub, jazz, New Orleans brass and much more.
Lithic’ is Laura Misch’s immersive new album, a sonic journey through stone, water, wind and lightning. Misch conjures music from caves, quarries, rock pools and coastal edges, merging field recordings with saxophone, voice, electronics, strings, and percussion. ‘Lithic’ is a meditation on nature, aging and connection, offering listeners a profound, elemental listening experience that is at once visceral, meditative and electrifying.
We Dream’ is the new studio album by New York-based alto saxophonist, composer and bandleader Lakecia Benjamin. Conceived as a deeply band-driven project, her sixth album and
Artwork Records debut centres on Benjamin’s frequent collaborators in pianists Oscar Pérez and Miki Hayama and bassist Elias Bailey - along with new associates in trumpeter Sean Jones and drummer Jonathan Barber - alongside an expansive cast of guest collaborators drawn from across jazz, R&B, hip-hop and experimental music.
BBE Music’s celebrated J Jazz compilation series reaches its fifth and final volume in early 2026. This final volume features a selection of tracks that is as diverse as it is deep, reflecting the rich and varied Japanese jazz scene that spanned from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, a golden era of innovation and creativity.
With his highly accomplished third album ‘If This Is It’, DJ Seinfeld (Armand Jakobsson) evolves further into the artist he always set out to be, refining his emotional, club-leaning sound across nostalgic house, UKG and 2000s-tinged trance.
The 12-track album - featuring SG Lewis, Confidence Man, TS Graye, Dan Whitlam, ARY, ‘Norwegian pop witch’ Moyka and Barry Can’t Swim affiliate just lil - explores letting go in a world that can often feel overwhelming.
Kronstad 23 returns with Dødehavet, the Norwegian quartet’s third album and first release on Batov Records. Continuing their instinctive, analogue-led approach, the record sits between cinematic jazz and psychedelic rock, threaded with Scandinavian folk and wider global influences. Recorded live to tape with minimal preparation and no modern studio intervention, Dødehavet captures a band working on feel, interaction and momentum rather than polish or precision.
Back in 1999 when David Byrne originally compiled this retrospective—making it the first in our critically acclaimed World Psychedelic Classics series—the idea of doing a psychedelic album from outside the U.S. or Europe was a total surprise. More than twenty years since this anthology first hit the shelves, the mutants are back in stock— with their electric guitars, cans of bug spray, and deviant, freaky psychedelia.
In 2026, the sample alchemist returns to his first love with his 11th album, Endless Smile 2. A 16-track project conceived as a tribute to his landmark 2015 album Endless Smile, which featured his iconic tracks “Betty” and “Qu’attendez-vous de moi”. Born from a desire to return to the essentials, Endless Smile 2 focuses on instrumental compositions enriched with samples and organic textures inspired by the 70s.
Following the jazzy library vibes of 2023’s collaborative Dolphin LP with Greg Foat and Moses Boyd, the venetian maestro Gigi Masin returns to the ambience for which he is renowned, with Movement — his first solo full-length since 2020’s Calypso, and his Sacred Bones Records debut. Fuelled by creative reinvention and rhythmic motion, he moves seamlessly between melancholy MIDI notes, technoid robotics, groovy liminal cloudscapes, and fathoms-deep ambient aquatics.
The Endless Dance’ is the first collaborative album from Northern Irish producer and composer Hannah Peel and Chinese percussionist Beibei Wang. The record is grounded in the strength of ancient concepts but comes alive with the joy and freedom of play as together, Peel and Wang travel through the 24 solar terms of the Chinese calendar with a cornucopia of sound in tow - synths and prepared piano alongside traditional and unconventional percussion.
