Chance the Rapper's Coloring Book Returns, George Michael's Lost Faith Tour, MCR at 20

Chance the Rapper's Coloring Book Returns, George Michael's Lost Faith Tour, MCR at 20

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Chance the Rapper's Coloring Book Returns After a Decade, George Michael's Lost 1988 Concert Surfaces, MCR's Black Parade Turns 20

Plus HMLTD reinvent themselves as goth-rave prophets, A.S.O.'s cult trip-hop masterpiece gets a proper pressing, and Carly Simon breaks an 18-year silence.

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Some weeks are about what's new. This one is about what refuses to stay buried: a mixtape that broke the industry's rules a decade ago, a concert tape that sat in a vault for nearly 40 years, and a band that just invented its own genre out of spite for its old one. Preorder now, because more than one of these is genuinely, seriously limited.

The Big Ones

Chance The Rapper — Coloring Book (10th Anniversary) [Deluxe Gold Vinyl]
Ten years ago, Chance the Rapper broke the music industry, and nobody was ready for it. Coloring Book was streaming-only, self-released, and had no business charting on the Billboard 200 under the rules that existed in 2016 — until Chance and his team got the rules changed, forcing the Recording Industry Association of America to start counting streaming-exclusive projects for the first time. It became the first streaming-only album ever to appear on the chart, and it did it without a label, without a traditional release strategy, and without a single compromise on the gospel-rap, church-choir sound that made him a Chicago hero in the first place.

The tape still sounds like a Sunday morning with the windows down: Kanye West and the Chicago Children's Choir on "All We Got," Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz trading verses on "No Problem," Justin Bieber turning up on "Juke Jam," Young Thug unexpectedly finding the pocket on "Mixtape." It went on to win three Grammy Awards, cementing a mixtape, of all things, as one of the most important rap records of its decade. Now, for the first time in years, Coloring Book comes back to vinyl on deluxe gold wax, timed to a full anniversary tour running through October. This isn't a routine represses — it's genuinely limited, and once it's gone for this run, it's gone. Out next Friday.

George Michael — The Faith Tour [3LP]
In 1988, a 24-year-old George Michael stepped out from behind Wham! for the first time and played two nights at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, the European leg of his first-ever solo tour. Fourteen 35mm cameras rolled. The tapes were struck, filed away, and largely forgotten for nearly four decades — until now. The Faith Tour collects 18 previously unreleased live recordings from those Paris shows, mixed by longtime George Michael collaborators Chris Porter and David Austin, and it captures a superstar at the exact hinge point of his career: Wham!'s biggest hits behind him, and Faith, the album that would make him one of the best-selling solo artists in history, only just beginning to prove itself.

The setlist is a career in miniature. Every major single from Faith is here, including the title track, "Father Figure," "One More Try," and "Monkey," alongside earlier favorites like "Careless Whisper" and "A Different Corner." And then there are the genuine surprises: a live cover of Stevie Wonder's "Love's in Need of Love Today," a take on LaBelle's "Lady Marmalade," and a run through Wild Cherry's "Play That Funky Music" that nobody knew existed until this release. The album arrives alongside a full concert film of the same performances, restored from that original 35mm footage and headed to theaters worldwide. Thirty-eight years after it was recorded, this is as close as any of us will get to actually being in that room. Out November 6.

HMLTD — FANGS [LP]
HMLTD have never made the same record twice, and FANGS might be the most drastic swerve yet. Their 2023 second album, The Worm, was a sixteen-piece-orchestra rock opera. For its follow-up, the London collective torched the strings and timpani entirely, decamped to a ruined château in France's Loire Valley, and came back having invented their own genre: what they're calling "Götherdammerüng," or, less dramatically, "ÜberGöth." Think Bauhaus and Suicide fed through Ableton, gospel choirs replaced with guttural black-metal screams, and every four-to-the-floor kick drum landing like a funeral march that somehow also wants you to dance.

The concept, as the band puts it, is a "modern dance record about decadence and moral corruption," filtered through a nineteenth-century gothic lens onto our current hyper-capitalist reality — hence "Hypergoth." While they were locked away in that château, HMLTD apparently became fixated on vampires: their camp appeal in pop culture, their isolation in gothic literature, their sheer horror in folklore. FANGS turns all of that into something the band themselves call a "vampire apocalypse," self-produced and mixed by Clarence Clarity (Rina Sawayama) and Nicos Kennedy (Machine Girl). It's a genuinely strange, committed reinvention from a band that seems constitutionally incapable of standing still. Out October 23.

A.S.O. — a.s.o. [LP]
If you know, you know: a.s.o.'s self-titled debut has spent the past few years quietly becoming one of the most beloved cult trip-hop records of the decade, the kind of album collectors trade rumors about represses for. It's the work of two people who shouldn't, on paper, have ended up making a trip-hop record together — Lewie Day, an Australian house producer known for sun-drenched Balearic grooves under the name Tornado Wallace, and Alia Seror-O'Neill, a fellow Australian expat in Berlin performing as Alias Error. A chance meeting in 2020 pulled Day away from the dancefloor entirely and into something murkier: eleven "torch songs for club freaks," built from a shared love of Portishead, Cocteau Twins, and Fleetwood Mac, all reportedly assembled from a playlist the pair simply titled "sexy badass cowgirl."

What they made is genuinely hard to pin down, which is exactly the point. Resident Advisor called it a descent from the dancefloor into "the murky, emotionally charged space that lurks in the shadow of a thrilling club night." Others have heard Julee Cruise's dream-logic haze, or the aquatic, dubwise low end of vintage Bowery Electric and Sneaker Pimps. Seror-O'Neill's voice is the anchor through all of it, restrained one moment and fully unleashed the next, while Day's production stays deep, patient, and just slightly menacing underneath her. This pressing finally gives the album the vinyl treatment its cult following has been asking for. A quiet masterpiece, for anyone who still misses when trip-hop meant something.

My Chemical Romance — The Black Parade (20th Anniversary Deluxe) [Indie Exclusive Baby Pink 2LP]
Emo's magnum opus turns 20. This deluxe edition pairs the original album with six bonus tracks, including three live performances from the 2007 tour never before released on any physical format and three rare B-sides — most notably "Someone Out There Loves You," long known to fans by its working title "Stay," performed live but never officially recorded until now. On baby pink 2LP with O-card. Out October 23.

Carly Simon — Comes In Waves [LP]
Her first new songs in 18 years. The icon confronts love, grief, and forgiveness with the same unflinching clarity that's defined her entire catalog.

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