Ween – Shinola: Vol. 2 (2xLP, Brown Vinyl, RSD BF 2026)

Ween’s Shinola: Vol. 2 arrives as a Record Store Day Black Friday 2026 release, finally extending a series that fans had been waiting on ever since Shinola, Vol. 1 first gathered the band’s offbeat leftovers and deep cuts. This second volume again pulls from across Ween’s recording life, assembling previously unreleased outtakes, rare B-sides, and fan favourites into one archival set. That broad sweep matters with Ween: few bands moved so comfortably between absurdist humour, sharp pop instincts, and deliberately strange detours.

What makes this collection especially appealing is that it is framed as more than a stopgap odds-and-ends release. The source material consistently points to a set that shows the full range of Ween’s songwriting, from left-turn arrangements to the kind of sharply defined ideas that made even their stray recordings memorable. Tracks such as “Kim Smoltz,” “Young Chou Lin,” and “The Argus, Pt. 2” hint at how wide that range can be, while the full selection spans different eras rather than one single session or stylistic phase.

For longtime listeners, Shinola: Vol. 2 opens the archive a little wider; for newer ones, it works as a reminder that Ween’s catalogue has always been bigger, stranger, and more varied than the studio albums alone suggest. As a brown-vinyl Black Friday edition through Rhino, it gives a coherent home to material that had been scattered, rare, or simply unavailable officially.