Notable vinyl releases out this Friday - November 21, 2025

Haley Heynderickx and Max Garcia Conover return with another set of gorgeous Folk songs this time inspired by the life and music of Woody Guthrie.

Local Action is proud to present 'Daughters', the debut album by Jennifer Walton.Walton is a beloved figure across various sectors of the alternative music underground. Outside of her own music and soundtrack work, she has been a live drummer for Kero Kero Bonito, collaborates with Sarah Midori Perry on the pair's Cryalot project, has remixed Metronomy and worked with Iceboy Violet, BABii and more. She also makes music and DJs with close friends aya and 96 Back under the name Microplastics, and recently contributed to London collective caroline's acclaimed caroline 2 album. The first seeds of Walton's debut album were sowed during touring North America in 2018, where whilst ticking off life-long music goals, Walton's father was dying of cancer. Grief is a constant presence throughout 'Daughters', and specifically the surreal nature of having to process it amongst a blur of airports, flight connections, hotel rooms and battles for stolen medication with the American healthcare system. Strip malls, drug deals, panic attacks; the artificiality of downtown American city districts dovetailing with reality in it's most brutal form. Miss America for a day while life is changed forever. Weaving between real life diary entries, travelogue-style storytelling, imagery that ranges from mechanical to religious and a scattering of fiction (though we are obliged to mention that 'Shelly' is based on a true story), Daughters climaxes with the staggering run of 'Saints', 'Miss America' and it's title track. Sampling unattended machines harmonizing bleeps into the void in a London hospital ward, 'Saints' narrates Walton taking her father to and from cancer research trials, 'sat, hunched and sick in the concourse as minutes became hours'. And to be very real for a moment, Jen is a friend, and first hearing the 'Miss America' demo is up there with the most emotional moments we've had in 15 years of running this record label.Finished in London across the second half of 2024, 'Daughters' features musical contributions from some of the closest friends and collaborators that Walton has made in her time as a musician: aya (who also mixed the album), Daniel S. Evans, Joshua Barfood and Nick Granata (all of Shovel Dance), Alex McKenzie (of caroline and Shovel Dance), Aga Ujma, and Bob Lockwood. Tracklisting:A1. Sometimes A2. Born Again Backwards A3. Shelly A4. Lambs A5. Saints B1. Miss America B2. Daughters B3. It Eats Itself B4. The Only Way Is Through

Keaton Henson is shedding the "quiet boy" persona that has defined much of his career. Embracing the grunge-infused sounds of his youth on new album Parader, the elusive songwriter melds emotional darkness, melancholy, and seething frustration as he reckons with the hauntings of his past: "I was nervous about being too loud, but then it sort of just came out." What unravels across Parader's 12 tracks is an introspective autopsy of time as it distorts and folds to inhabit the songwriter's present. "There are these disjointed snapshots," he shares, "memories across time popping up amongst this collection of thoughts about what it feels like to be this age and a musician." Production duties were split between Luke Sital-Singh and Alex Farrar (MJ Lenderman, Wednesday, Suki Waterhouse) and there are collaborations with his wife, Danielle Fricke, and Ratboys' Julia Steiner. Keaton Henson has a well-worn reputation as a softly-spoken, reclusive figure who rarely performs live. Since emerging with his debut record in 2010, he has garnered critical acclaim for his mastery at weaving heart-on-sleeve vulnerability into emotionally poignant, folk-tinged outpourings.

Tranquilizer isn’t the sound of sedation but resurfacing. Daniel Lopatin isn’t condemning our need for escape, but exploring what happens after. The record maps a movement from weightless calm into something more grounded, the necessary cycle of withdrawal and return that keeps us sane in a world both overwhelming and mundane. We plummet from the watery bliss of “Lifeworld” into the mournful melancholy of “Cherry Blue” and spastic grooves of “Rodl Glide.” As always with OPN, the real collides with the unreal. Listen closely and you will hear the scrape of fingers on a fretboard, a stone sliding across a dungeon floor, the squeak of a door opening. His music has never been an abstract color field; it has weight, edges, shadows. Tranquilizer feels like falling out of a dream you can still touch. 

Shygirl celebrates the 5th anniversary of `Alias,' the cult 7-track EP/mini album that revealed her before her 2022 debut album, Nymph. Released physically for the first time with retail on light pink color vinyl. Includes "Slime" & "Tasty."