Surface Noise Weekly: Oh Hiroshima, Aphex Twin, Mono, Sennen & More
Issue 8 — August 2026
New vinyl you need to know about
This week’s issue leans heavy on the past catching up with the present. Aphex Twin’s Drukqs finally completes the vinyl reissue campaign, MONO deliver another chapter of their Heaven series in typically tiny numbers, and Pelagic mark their 300th release with a compilation stacked full of names from their roster. There’s also a comeback from Sennen after a decade away, two colored reissues from Oh Hiroshima, and something genuinely divisive in the shape of a posthumous Fall album. Preorder windows are tight on more than one of these, so don’t sit on it too long.
REISSUE
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Oscillation & MyriadOh Hiroshima Pelagic Records — Out Now — LP – White splatter and Red splatter Pelagic have reissued two Oh Hiroshima albums on vinyl, Oscillation from 2019 and Myriad from 2022, both recorded by Kristian Karlsson and mixed by Magnus Lindberg of Cult of Luna. Oscillation moves through reverb heavy soundscapes that slowly build into something huge, while Myriad leans further into melody without losing that same weight. Good starting points if you have not spent time with this band yet. Part Post-rock, part hard core and part shoegaze. These are available on extremely limited colored vinyl |
REISSUE
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Drukqs (2026 Reissue)Aphex Twin Warp — 30th October 2026 — 4xLP (preorder window closes Tuesday 4th August) Twenty-five years since its original release, Drukqs returns to vinyl. It’s the most unwieldy, contradictory, and arguably most personal thing Richard D. James ever put his name to — prepared piano miniatures alongside pulverising drill and bass. Every Aphex Twin album is now back in print on vinyl, which is the full picture. The preorder window via the AFX store closes Tuesday 4th August, so don’t wait on this. |
PREORDER
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Heaven Vol. 4MONO Temporary Residence Ltd. — 11th September 2026 — 10″ (Transparent Green coloured vinyl, limited edition of 1,000, limit two per customer) The fourth in MONO’s ongoing limited 10″ EP series. Three new songs, one pressing of 1,000 worldwide, and no second run once it’s gone. If you’ve been following the Heaven series you already know the deal; if you haven’t, this is the Japanese post-rock group at their most distilled — slow-building, orchestral in weight, quietly devastating. The transparent green vinyl won’t hang around. |
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New QuietSennen Sonic Cathedral — LP Sennen’s first record in over a decade, on Sonic Cathedral. The UK shoegazers built a small but devoted following on records like “We’re Building A World” and “Come On Natural,” and their return to Noel Summerville’s label feels like the right home for whatever they’ve been holding onto. If your collection leans heavily toward the Sonic Cathedral roster, this is not one to overlook. |
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The Dungeon TapesVarious Artists (Pelagic Records) Pelagic Records — 28th August 2026 (physical) — 2xLP Pelagic’s 300th release is a label compilation featuring new material from The Ocean, Spook the Horses, Lost In Kyiv, Barrens, Gösta Berlings Saga, Telepathy, Psychonaut and more, plus a Pelagic United and Friends collective covering My Bloody Valentine’s “Soon.” Ticket and 2LP bundles are available from the Pelagic webstore. If you follow any of these artists, the tracklist alone makes this essential. |
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Post ScriptThe Fall Cog Sinister Records — Mid-September 2026 — Limited White LP, Black LP Post Script is billed as the final Fall album, pieced together from material Mark E Smith worked on before his death in 2018 and completed by Ed Blaney and Simon Archer. Whether it counts as a genuine Fall record is properly contested among longtime fans, since none of the band’s later lineup were involved and Smith never signed off on these vocals being released. Worth hearing regardless, if only to make up your own mind. |
More releases this week
Cycles in the Infinite Dream — REZN
Sargent House — LP — Buy from Sargent House →
Mojave 3 — Ask Me Tomorrow / Out of Tune / Excuses for Travellers / Spoon and Rafter / Puzzles Like You
4AD — LP — Buy from Norman Records →
Phoebe Bridgers — Lost Weekend
Dead Oceans — LP — Buy from Piccadilly Records →
I Know About You (30th Anniversary Edition) — Ida
Numero Group — 2xLP — Buy from Numero Group →
Lockstep — I Know What I Saw
Profound Lore — LP — Buy from Norman Records →
Galashiels — The Catburgers
Slumberland Records — LP (black vinyl), due 25th Sep — Buy from Norman Records →
Light Conductor — Sequence Three
Constellation Records — LP (180g), due September 2026 — Buy from Constellation →
Courant Zéro — Solari
Constellation Records — LP (180g), due September 2026 — Buy from Constellation →
Wishbone — Clara Mann
The state51 Conspiracy — LP / Dinked Edition LP (due 23rd Oct) — Buy from Norman Records →
Blue Velvet (40th Anniversary Edition) — Angelo Badalamenti
Varèse Sarabande — LP — Buy from Norman Records →
Félicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou — Reflections Vol. 3: Water Poems
RVNG Intl. — LP — Buy from Norman Records →
Lee Ranaldo — The System (Original Soundtrack)
Silver Current Records — LP — Buy from Norman Records →
Spike Fuck — evidence
Sacred Bones — LP — Buy from Norman Records →
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