Madonna's Evita Finally Hits Vinyl, Plus U2's Carnaval De Luz, Kylie's Fever at 25 & Lil Peep's Hellboy

Madonna's Evita Finally Hits Vinyl, Plus U2's Carnaval De Luz, Kylie's Fever at 25 & Lil Peep's Hellboy

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Madonna's Evita Finally Hits Vinyl, Plus U2's Carnaval De Luz, Kylie's Fever at 25 & Lil Peep's Hellboy

Thirty years after the film, the complete Evita soundtrack lands on red 3LP — with U2's first album in nine years, Kylie's Fever XXV, and Lil Peep's Hellboy at 10.

Some weeks the preorder list is a pile of reissues. This week it's a set of records with real stories behind them: the pop star who talked her way into the role everyone in Hollywood wanted, a band marking fifty years together with a Dolly Parton farewell, the disco-pop single that was turned down by two other acts before it conquered 40 countries, and the mixtape that gave emo rap its blueprint. All of these are preorders landing at future dates, so lock in what you want now.

The Big Ones

Madonna — Evita: The Complete Motion Picture Soundtrack [Red Vinyl 3LP]
Evita spent over fifteen years in development hell before Madonna ever sang a note of it. Ken Russell was hired in 1981 and fired after refusing to proceed without Liza Minnelli. Oliver Stone took over in 1988 and spent years trying to make it work; Meryl Streep did preliminary vocal recordings with him before stepping down over a contract standoff. Michelle Pfeiffer was confirmed for the part in 1994, then left when she became pregnant. Barbra Streisand passed after seeing the stage show, Glenn Close was considered, and Jennifer Lopez auditioned. When Stone exited that summer and Alan Parker signed on in December 1994, Madonna sent him a four-page letter and a copy of her 'Take a Bow' video making the case that nobody understood a woman who turned ambition into myth better than she did. Parker, who wasn't a pushover, gave her the part on his terms: 'The film is not a glorified Madonna video,' he said. 'I controlled it and she didn't.'

Then she had to actually sing it. Andrew Lloyd Webber was openly worried about her voice, so Madonna trained with vocal coach Joan Lader, who said she had to use her voice in a way she'd never used it before and ended up developing an upper register she didn't know she had. The sessions at CTS Studios in London started on October 2, 1995 and ran nearly four months. Madonna struggled to sing a guide vocal alongside an 84-piece orchestra, so after an emergency meeting she recorded separately at Whitfield Street Studios while the orchestra was captured elsewhere, with alternate days off to protect her voice. Tim Rice recalled her trying to change the lyrics of 'You Must Love Me' to make Eva more sympathetic. He refused, and in exchange rewrote the instrumentation five or six times to suit her. The song, written by Lloyd Webber and Rice specifically for the film, won both the Golden Globe and the Oscar for Best Original Song, and Madonna sang it at the Academy Awards in a Christian Dior gown with nothing but a piano and a spotlight.

Here's the case for this version: it isn't a Broadway belt-off. Madonna's Eva sounds like a performer building a legend in real time — a little thin at the edges, fiercely controlled, and then suddenly vulnerable in 'Don't Cry for Me Argentina' and 'You Must Love Me' in a way a bigger, steadier voice can't fake. Antonio Banderas (the first actor cast) and Jonathan Pryce surround her with real singers who make her choices more interesting, not less. The production around it was enormous: five weeks of filming in Buenos Aires, a Peronist Party campaign against the film, President Menem refusing to let cameras inside the Casa Rosada (Parker built a replica at Shepperton), 4,000 extras for the balcony scene, and 85 costume changes that set a Guinness World Record. Madonna won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy, and the film grossed about $141 million worldwide. This 30th anniversary edition is the complete soundtrack on translucent red 3LP for the first time ever, in a triple-gatefold sleeve with a 20-page booklet of film stills. Pre-order now.

U2 — Carnaval De Luz [180g Yellow Vinyl, Indie Exclusive with Alternate Cover]
U2's 16th album is their first full set of new songs in nine years, since 2017's Songs of Experience, and it lands in the band's 50th year — counting from the September 1976 notice on a Dublin school bulletin board that brought Larry Mullen Jr.'s bandmates together. It's the third U2 release of 2026, following two six-track EPs, Days of Ash and Easter Lily, organized around the liturgical calendar. Jacknife Lee produced, with additional production and keys from Ryan Tedder, and reporting around the record also credits Brian Eno on multiple tracks and Daniel Lanois on pedal steel. The band describes the themes as spirituality, friendship, freedom and endurance in the face of darker forces. The title is Spanish and Portuguese for 'Carnival of Light,' and the sound follows: 'Silencio,' a two-and-a-half-minute homage to early surf punk with a video shot in Mexico City, and lead single 'Street of Dreams' (July 2026).

The headline guest is Dolly Parton, whose appearance on the closing track 'Torn' is billed as her final recorded vocal performance — a tender country duet with Bono about broken family ties, co-written by U2, Parton and Johnny McDaid. Another track, 'The Mirror Maker (Rosalía),' is named for the Spanish artist, who by most reports inspired the song rather than singing on it. The full 12-song list: Go (Carnaval De Luz), La Reina, Street of Dreams, The Mirror Maker (Rosalía), Superficiality, If the World Is at War We Better Not Be, Silencio, The Greatest Show on Earth, Glorify, Midnight Sunshine, Can't Stop Us Now, and Torn. Our indie-exclusive pressing is 180g yellow vinyl with alternate cover art. Out November 13 — pre-order now.

Kylie Minogue — Fever (XXV Edition) [LP]
Fever is the record that finished Kylie's second act. Dropped by Deconstruction in 1998, she signed to Parlophone, reset with 1999's Light Years, and then made her masterpiece. 'Can't Get You Out of My Head' was written in 2000 by Cathy Dennis and Rob Davis, who built a 125 BPM loop in Cubase and cut the demo in about three and a half hours. They pitched it to S Club 7 and Sophie Ellis-Bextor first, and both passed. Kylie's A&R man Jamie Nelson heard it and booked it; she reportedly wanted to record it after hearing about twenty seconds of the demo. The result opens on its chorus, runs on a Korg Triton and a robotic la-la-la hook, and topped the charts in 40 countries, including four weeks at number one in the UK. In the US it reached number seven, her first top-ten hit there in 13 years, and Fever peaked at number three on the Billboard 200, her highest-charting American album. Dawn Shadforth's video, with Kylie in a white Grace Jones-inspired jumpsuit by Fee Doran, became its own fashion moment.

The album went on to sell around six million copies worldwide, five-times platinum in the UK. 'Come into My World' won the 2004 Grammy for Best Dance Recording, Kylie's first Grammy and the first for an Australian artist since Men at Work in 1982. The XXV campaign also includes a two-CD deluxe edition with B-sides and remixes — including 'Can't Get Blue Monday Out of My Head,' her mash-up with New Order from the 2002 BRIT Awards — plus a limited 12-inch of the big single with a Peggy Gou remix. Out November 27 — pre-order now.

Lil Peep — Hellboy (10 Year Anniversary) [2LP Green Smoke Vinyl]
The breakout mixtape that helped birth emo rap, recorded in under two months when Peep was 19. Raw, gritty vocals over guitar-sampled beats, with Lil Tracy on 'Cobain' and 'The Song They Played.' This anniversary edition comes on green smoke vinyl with alternate cover art and an embossed gatefold. Out November 20 — pre-order now.

Also Up for Preorder

Movie-musical history, a band's fiftieth-year statement, a pop landmark at 25, and a lot of heavy, weird and beautiful records in between. Get your name on these before they slip away.

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