Actor - The Best Of (Pre-Order) vinyl record

Actor - The Best Of (Pre-Order) vinyl recordIn stores September 25, 2026. Actor return with The Best Of, an album that trades the pastoral Americana of their previous releases for a set of crunchy, feedback laden epics indebted to genre demarcations as varied as 1990s alternative rock, power pop, and contemporary alt country. Earworm riffs delivered by careening guitars and impassioned, full throated vocals hooks augment deceptively thorny arrangements and heartfelt lyricism; the album sounds

" The obsessive

initially a trio made up of drummer Bill Kyle

The album’s title has become the ethos he’s embraced for all things in life

2019's Exit added modular synth (courtesy of Matthew Ramolo) as part of the core ensemble and most of the vocal duties were handed over to male guests

Some days just the thought of listening to music felt impossible

playing in bands such as Badge Epoque Ensemble

both disparate and wholly singular

1975’s Red Dwarf

remastered from the original tapes

the directness of the recordings reflected in the immediacy of the resulting tunes

how we protect ourselves with things we say and don’t say

Production was in the hands of Nigel the Cat