Notable vinyl releases out this Friday - June 19, 2026

Alex Zhang Hungtai's new double album Orion/Mother, a brave, gigantic burst of life, creativity, and abstract balladry, alchemizes the past and the present, sampling home recordings he made with some of New York's finest improvisers while spontaneously composing on top of them with trumpet and other instruments. Zhang's trumpet is the "grounding force" and conceptual narrator of Orion/Mother, allowing Zhang to decontextualize, process, and reconcile with the past through abstract lyricism in the present. It's the sound of an artist addressing unresolved fragments from his past, integrating them into the present, and building a new path.

Renowned producer, composer, and songwriter Daniel Lanois returns with Belladonna Nocturne, a mesmerizing new album featuring 14 original tracks.

- previously unreleased studio album, recorded in 2011, to be released for the first time on 19th June- this never-before-heard solo studio album comes alongside the first part of a comprehensive reissue of Coxon's complete solo catalogue, spanning 9 studio albums and 2 soundtracks, across the next 12 months- produced by Ben Hillier (blur - Think Tank)- due as a follow up to A+E, this was a rejuvenation cut short by blur activity in 2012, before Coxon moved onto other projects- Castle Park leans back into Coxon's classic mod sound which spawned his most commercially successful solo albums Happiness In Magazines and Love Travels at Illegal Speeds- includes the single 'Billy Says'- Coxon will play a headline show at the O2 Forum Kentish Town in London on 28th November 2026

The San Diego via Boston alt trio's complete original studio recordings, remastered, restored, and compiled into one lavish box set. Wait A Lifetime gathers the band's peerless albums Junk and This Afternoon Malady, plus a first time vinyl pressing of R.I.P., expanded to include their unfinished 3rd album, singles, splits, and comp tracks. The 28-page accompanying booklet details the entire saga via Nina Cocoran's essay and dozens of period photos, all housed in a stunning case-wrapped and varnished box. Sink into the ground and fly.

As WARNING prepares to release Rituals of Shame - their first new music in twenty years,vocalist/guitarist Patrick Walker is self-effacing about what led to this moment. Over the last two decades he continued to write and release music, satisfied that he had achieved what he set out to do with WARNING. In those intervening years, interest in WARNING swelled, organically gathering an ardent fanbase. In particular, the 2006 album, Watching from a Distance, has gained a cult following. In response to a transformative period in his life, Walker turned towards writing new songs, and it soon became apparent that these belonged to WARNING. In early January 2025, he started with a completely blank canvas, and piece by piece, he started to fill it with ideas that evolved to become the songs that make up Rituals of Shame. His immersion in the project became a full-time pursuit. After successfully demoing the five songs, Walker retreated to a remote house on a hill outside Florence, Italy, to refine the lyrics. Recording took place at The Arch Studio, a 140-year-old former church in Southport, UK. Chris Fullard (Idles, Sunn O))), Ulver) handled the recording and mixing. Walker's lifelong musical inspirations can be traced through Rituals of Shame. The ambitious structural arrangements harken to Marillion’s complex but soaring episodic songs. They retain a sparsity that is reminiscent of June Tabor’s economic arrangements; thick with melody but with a diaphanous air to them. Citing John Brenner of Revelation as an enduring inspiration, Patrick credits him with introducing the idea of how to infuse heavy music with significant emotional depth. Often reluctant to discuss the minutiae of his lyrics, Walker does acknowledge that making this album was a direct response to the immediate concerns of his current life period. Rituals of Shame also echoes the enduring themes and fixations that have marked most of his work: guilt, shame, personal failure, obsession, longing, and separation, but, most of all, he says, love.