Vinyl buyer Patrick Selvage stocks the shelves at Paradise Found on Oct. 20. Credit: Jezy J. Gray

As we bid adieu to spooky season and cannonball into the holidays, now is a good time to start thinking about your end-of-year music list. Good thing we’re back with the latest roundup of new vinyl bestsellers at Paradise Found Records and Music (1646 Pearl St.) From local death-metal darlings Blood Incantation to Texas R&B crooner Leon Bridges, here’s what October sounded like in the People’s Republic. 

1. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
2. The Smile - Cutouts
3. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works, Vol. II (reissue)
4. Leon Bridges - Leon
5. BadBadNotGood - Mid Spiral
6. Godspeed! You Black Emperor - No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead
7. Nujabes & Fat Jon - Samurai Champloo Music Record: Departure (reissue)
8. Thee Sacred Souls - Got a Story to Tell
9. The Hard Quartet - The Hard Quartet 
10. Phish - Billy Breathless (reissue)

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