Surface Noise Weekly: The Radio Dept., Boards of Canada, Bilal Nasser, The Album Leaf, Jóhann Jóhannsson & more
Issue 16 — September 2026
New vinyl you need to know about
The Radio Dept.’s Pet Grief gets a 20th anniversary reissue, Boards of Canada’s ‘Hi Scores’ lands on Warp for the first time in over a decade, and Bilal Nasser’s new album for Constellation is one of the most important guitar records of the year. Protomartyr’s Hotel Usona is out now, Gilla Band return with their best yet on Rough Trade, and Sennen have a new album coming with two vinyl variants worth knowing about before they sell out.
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Pet Grief (20th Anniversary Edition)The Radio Dept. Just So — 13th November 2026 (standard LP) / 11th December 2026 (Dinked Edition) — LP / Dinked Edition LP Pet Grief is one of the defining shoegaze-adjacent records of the 2000s. The Malmö band’s second album arrived in 2006 after they scrapped a more electronic version and started again with guitars, and the results were quietly extraordinary — a record of synthetic melancholy and melodic precision that has only aged into something more potent. The Dinked Edition is on coloured vinyl and comes with extras; This is the one that many fans have been waiting for, so this will sell, FAST. if you don’t want to be scrambling on Dicogs for a copy at crazy prices, then jump on this now, links below. US & World: Buy from Amazon → | UK: Buy from Sister Ray → |
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Every Martyr Is A UniverseBilal Nasser Constellation — 6th November 2026 — 180g LP Palestinian-Canadian guitarist and harm-reduction worker Bilal Nasser’s third album and his first for Constellation. Conceived during the 2024 student encampment movement, this is a nine-person ensemble piece — strings, horns, piano, electronics, percussion, bass, voice — that moves between expansive group works and more intimate songs, incorporating archival Palestinian recordings alongside Zionist military broadcasts. There is nothing else that sounds like this. Pressed on 180g, preorders ship ahead of release date from Montreal. |
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PugnelloGilla Band Rough Trade — Out Now — LP / Coloured LP Dublin’s most visceral noise-rock band, now four albums in and very clearly finding new ways to unsettle. Pugnello brings industrial drum loops, shadowy glitched production and snarling guitar discord into something that gives you no easy route out. The quieter moments hit harder because of what surrounds them. |
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A Body Of VoicesThe Album Leaf Nettwerk Music Group — October 2nd, 2026 — 2x Vinyl LP (colored) Ninth full-length from The Album Leaf, with collaborations across 9 of the 11 tracks — a step away from doing this solo. Artwork comes again from longtime collaborator Alex Deamon, with the pressing done alongside Bryan Hollon of Vinyl Ceremony, so the physical object clearly matters here as much as the music. |
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Hi Scores (30th Anniversary)Boards Of Canada Warp Records — 20/11/2026 — LP (black vinyl, gatefold sleeve, polylined inner, 4×12″ poster insert) Hi Scores hasn’t had a vinyl pressing since 2014, and this 30th anniversary edition is part of Warp finally getting the whole Boards of Canada catalogue back on vinyl at once. New gatefold packaging, four 12″x12″ prints included, and it follows on from Inferno, their first new album in 13 years. Worth grabbing if your original copy is worn through. |
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Orphée: A Decade of Timeless BeautyJóhann Jóhannsson Deutsche Grammophon — 16/10/2026 — Ltd LP (Crystal Clear Vinyl) Ten years on from its original release, Orphée gets its first pressing on crystal clear vinyl. Timed to Jóhannsson’s birthday, this is one for anyone who already knows how quietly devastating this record is and wants it in a format that matches. |
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Ghost CoatThis is the Kit Memphis Industries — 15/01/2027 — Pink LP / Splatter LP Seventh studio album, built around the idea of home and how homesickness can hit you anywhere. Recorded at Rockfield Studios in the Wye Valley, and the first record she’s self-produced, so it’s a genuine shift in how these songs came together, not just a new tracklist. |
More releases this week
Harmacy (30th Anniversary Expanded Edition) — Sebadoh
Sub Pop — 2xLP (sky blue and opaque red vinyl) — Buy from Norman Records →
Ghost Coat — This Is The Kit
Memphis Industries — Due 15th January 2027 — LP / Dinked Edition LP (“Splattered Spectre” colour vinyl, signed 12″x12″ print, numbered to 750) / Indies Exclusive Coloured LP — Buy from Piccadilly Records →
Insomniac Doze (Anniversary Edition) — envy
Temporary Residence Ltd. — LP — Buy from Temporary Residence Ltd. →
Industrial Growth — Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan
Castles In Space — Due 30th October 2026 — LP (Black inside clear vinyl / Norman exclusive Black inside yellow vinyl, 250 copies) — Buy from Norman Records →
The Gem — Julia Jacklin
4AD — Out Now — LP / Indies Exclusive Turquoise Vinyl LP — Buy from Piccadilly Records →
BETHLEHEM — BETHLEHEM (Lawrence Sammour, Sary Moussa, Abed Kobeissy)
Constellation — 16th October 2026 — 180g LP — Buy from Constellation →
Violins — Blondshell
Partisan Records — Out Now — LP / Indies Exclusive Clear Vinyl LP — Buy from Piccadilly Records →
Dopamine Chamber — Fontaines D.C.
XL Recordings — Due 16th October 2026 — LP / Coloured LP / Indies Exclusive Coloured LP — Buy from Piccadilly Records →
Outlaster — Nina Nastasia
Temporary Residence Ltd. — LP, Burgundy Coloured Vinyl — Buy from Temporary Residence Ltd. →
Atrocity Exhibition (10 Year Anniversary Edition) — Danny Brown
Warp — Due 13th November 2026 — Translucent Blue Vinyl 2LP — Buy from Norman Records →
As Shadows Fall — LIINES
Cracked Ankles — LP — Buy from Norman Records →
I Wrote You A Letter — M83
M83 Recording Inc. — Out Now — LP / Indies Exclusive Black & White Swirl Vinyl LP — Buy from Piccadilly Records →
Snowdrop — MONO
Temporary Residence Ltd. — LP — Buy from Temporary Residence Ltd. →
Type It Up — Matt Berninger
Concord Records — LP (includes New Order’s “Blue Monday” cover and Velvet Underground cover with Rosanne Cash) — Buy from Norman Records →
Nobody’s Coming To Save You — Gurriers
Play It Again Sam — Out Now — LP / Indies Exclusive Transparent Teal Vinyl LP — Buy from Piccadilly Records →
Tidals (10th Anniversary Reissue) — Spotlights
Ipecac — LP — Buy from Norman Records →
Blood Year (Repress) — Russian Circles
Sargent House — LP (Transparent Seaweed/Black Splatter and Black Ice/Gold variants) — Buy from Sargent House →
Portal — Windy & Carl
Kranky — 2xLP — Buy from Norman Records →
Glastonbury 1994 — Orbital
London Records — Out Now — 2xLP / Limited Transparent Yellow & Blue Vinyl 2xLP — Buy from Piccadilly Records →
One Day This Will All Be Lore — Blue Bendy
Blue Bendy — Due 29th January 2027 — Dinked Edition LP (Transparent green vinyl, hand scribbled A4 acetate lyric sheet, numbered to 300) — Buy from Piccadilly Records →
Live In Arles 1975 — Can
Mute — Out Now — LP — Buy from Piccadilly Records →
The Gem — Julia Jacklin (Green Opal webstore exclusive)
4AD — LP (Green Opal vinyl, limited signed prints available) — Buy from 4AD Store →
GENN feat. Aidan Moffat — Jaguar Sun
Rock Action — LP — Buy from Norman Records →
Celebration — TOMORA
Fontana — Due 27th November 2026 — 12″ EP — Buy from Norman Records →
Khudgarzi — Sheherazaad
Erased Tapes — Due 20th November 2026 — LP / Dinked Edition LP (signed A5 postcard, 20-page lyric book, numbered sticker, limited to 300) — Buy from Piccadilly Records →
Roky / The Great Big No / My Drug Buddy — The Lemonheads x The Bevis Frond
Fire Records — Due 16th October 2026 — Limited White Vinyl 12″ — Buy from Norman Records →
La Ola Nocturna (Experimental Songs & Deviant Pop From The Spanish 80’s) — Various Artists
Bongo Joe Records — Due 13th November 2026 — 2xLP — Buy from Norman Records →
The Runaway Found (2026 Reissue) — The Veils
Rough Trade Records — LP — Buy from Piccadilly Records →
Nux Vomica (2026 Reissue) — The Veils
Rough Trade Records — LP — Buy from Piccadilly Records →
Sun Gangs (2026 Reissue) — The Veils
Rough Trade Records — LP — Buy from Piccadilly Records →
1989-1992 — Velocity Girl
Slumberland Records — LP (Transparent orange vinyl / Limited white-and-orange creamsicle vinyl, shared with Monorail Music) — Buy from Slumberland Records →
A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness (30th Anniversary) — Rocketship
Slumberland Records — LP (White/bone swirl vinyl) — Buy from Slumberland Records →
Two Steps At A Time — Railcard
Skep Wax Records — LP — Buy from Norman Records →
When You Smiled And Turned Away — The Cat’s Miaow
Slumberland Records / Lost & Lonesome — LP — Buy from Slumberland Records →
Galashiels — The Catburgers
Slumberland Records — LP (Black vinyl) — Buy from Slumberland Records →
Tango N’Vectif Sessions — µ-Ziq
Planet Mu — LP — Buy from Norman Records →
Dimensional Bleed — Holy Fawn
Wax Bodega — 2xLP — Buy from Norman Records →
Orphée — Jóhann Jóhannsson
Deutsche Grammophon — LP — Buy from Norman Records →
Nowhere Flower — Peace Channel
Soft Abuse — LP — Buy from Norman Records →
And The Glass Handed Kites (Expanded) — Mew
Music On Vinyl — 2xLP — Buy from Norman Records →
Soulside Journey (35th Anniversary Edition) — Darkthrone
Peaceville — LP — Buy from Norman Records →
Hotel Room — claire rousay & Martyna Basta
Unsound — LP — Buy from Norman Records →
The Black Heart Procession — Three
Touch and Go — LP — Buy from Norman Records →
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