Monthly Archives: August 2026

Purchase log, 2026-08-25

[The B-52's - Ancient Culture: Mesopotamia Revisited]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

New releases

CD
  • Phoebe Bridgers, Lost Weekend
  • Renée Fleming with Bela Fleck, The Fiddle and the Drum
  • Sam Smith, Hazel Eyes
Vinyl
  • Claybourne Elder, If the Stars Were Mine
  • Eluvium, Virga III
Files
  • Natalie Merchant, Cabinet of Wonders

Catalog

CD
  • Björk, Cornucopia: Live
  • Brian Fallon, Local Honey
  • Chat Pile, Cool World
  • Club 69, Adults Only
  • Fastball, The Help Machine
  • Gay Dad, Leisure Noise
  • Kacey Chambers, The Captain
  • Mason Jennings, Century Spring
  • Matraca Berg, The Speed of Grace
  • Quarshi, Jinx
  • Ultravox, Quartet
  • Various Composers, New Electronic Music
Vinyl
  • Eluvium, Virga II

Reissues

CD
  • Scritti Politti, Cupid and Psyche ’85 (Deluxe Edition)
  • The B-52’s, Ancient Culture: Mesopotamia Revisited
Vinyl
  • envy, Insomniac Doze (20th Anniversary Edition)

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Purchase log, 2026-08-18

[Björk, Orkestral]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

New releases

CD
  • Björk, Orkestral
  • Jóhan Jóhannsson, Piano Works
Vinyl
  • Björk, Orkestral

Catalog

CD
  • Animotion, Strange Behavior
  • Ásgeir, In the Silence
  • Bang Bang, Something Wrong
  • Bang Bang, The Wolves Are Whispering
  • Bruce Springsteen, Western Stars
  • Donnacha Dennehy, Surface Tension / Disposable Dissonances
  • John Rutter, Gloria
  • John Tesh, Winter Song
  • Kaleo, Kaleo
  • K.U.K.L., Holidays in Europe (The Naughty Nought)
  • K.U.K.L., The Eye
  • Of Monsters and Men, Beneath the Skin
  • Of Monsters and Men, Fever Dream
  • Pelican, Forever Becoming
  • Sigur Rós, Odin’s Raven Magic
  • Sky, The Mozart Album
Vinyl
  • Bang Bang, The Wolves Are Whispering
  • Benny Andersson, Piano
  • Björk, Telegram
  • Emmsjé Gauti, Vagg & Velta
  • Hilary Hahn, Bach – Concertos
  • Qurashi, Jinx
  • Sigur Rós, Me∂ su∂ í eyrum vi∂ spilum endlaust
  • Úlfur Úlfur, Hefnið Okkar

Reissues

CD
  • Everything but the Girl, Temperamental (Deluxe Edition)

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Purchase log, 2026-08-11

[SYML - The Moment After a Death]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

New releases

Files
  • SYML, The Morning After a Death

Catalog

CD
  • Alan Hovhannes / Lou Harrison, Magical Mountain / Lousadzak / Elegaic Symphony (Dennis Russell Davies, American Composers Orchestra)
  • At the Drive-In, Acrobatic Tenement
  • Various Composers, Emergency Music Collection
Vinyl
  • Camper Van Beethoven, Camper Van Beethoven
  • Chat Pile, Cool World
  • Gang of Four, Content
  • Perfume Genius, Too Bright
  • These Arms Are Snakes, Tail Swallower and Dove
  • Wye Oak, Civilian

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Kylie Minogue, Aphrodite
  • Kylie Minogue, X

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Purchase log, 2026-08-04

[Edie Brickell and New Bohemians - Ghost of a Dog]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

Catalog

CD
  • Anton Webern, Complete Music for String Quartet (Quartetto Italiano)
  • Bobby Previte, Claude’s Late Morning
  • Bongwater, Too Much Sleep
  • Cave In, Jupiter
  • DREAMS COME TRUE, MAGIC
  • Heaven 17, 5 Classic Albums
  • Kelis, Tasty
  • Kraftwerk, Tour des France Soundtracks
  • RJD2, Since We Last Spoke
  • Zeena Parkins, Nightmare Alley
Vinyl
  • Cynthia Erivo, I Forgive You
  • Edie Brickell and New Bohemians, Ghost of a Dog
  • John Zorn, New Masada Quartet, Vol. 1

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