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Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in February. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.
Friday, February 7
Avalanche Party — Der Traum Uber Alles (Kartel Music Group)
Biig Piig — 11:11 (Sony Music)
corook — committed to a bit (Atlantic)
Dream Theater — Parasomnia (Ytse Jams)
Drop Nineteens — 1991 (Wharf Cat Records)
FACS — Wish Defense (FACS)
Fotokiller — Eerie Nostalgia (Fotokiller)
FVZZ POPVLI — Melting Pop (Francesco Pucci)
Guided By Voices — Universe Room (GBV Inc)
Heartworms — Glutton For Punishment (Speedy Wunderground/PIAS)
Helen Ganya — Share Your Care (Bella Union)
HONESTY — U R HERE (Partisan Records)
HORSEBATH — Another Farewell (Strolling Bones Records)
Inhaler — Open Wide (Universal)
James Brandon Lewis Trio — Apple Cores (Anti)
Jinjer — Duél (Napalm Records)
John Ely — Love and Freedom (Rack ‘Em Records/Thirty Tigers)
JOHNNYSWIM — When The War Is Over (Mr And Mrs Swim LLC)
Leæther Strip — Pornography: A Tribute to The Cure (Cleopatra Records)
Lewis Watson — blue skies grey (Nettwerk)
Matt Pond PA — The Ballad of the Natural Lines (Sonder House)
The Moles — Composition Book (Splendid Research)
Mun Sing — Frolic EP (Illegal Data)
Nadia Reid — Enter New Brightness (Chrysalis Records)
Natti Natasha — Natti Natasha En Amargue (Sony Music)
Oklou — Choke Enough (True Panther Records)
Olly Alexander — Polari (Universal)
Rats on Rafts — Deep Below (Fire Records)
Real Bad Man and ZelooperZ — Dear Psilocybin (Real Bad Man Records)
The Rumjacks — Dead Anthems (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Sarah Klang — Beautiful Woman (Nettwerk)
Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears — Head In The Sand (Missing Piece Records)
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory — Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar)
Skeleten — Mentalized (Astral People Recordings)
Sleeper’s Bell — Clover (Fire Talk)
Squid — Cowards (Warp Records)
Thundermother — Dirty & Divine (AFM Records)
Tommy Castro & The Painkillers — Closer to the Bone (Alligator Records)
The Vices — Before It Might Be Gone (+1 Records)
Winona Oak — Salt EP (Nettwerk)
Friday, February 14
Alessia Cara — Love & Hyperbole (Def Jam)
The Altons — Heartache in Room 14 (Daptone Records)
Art d’Ecco — Serene Demon (Paper Bag Records)
Bartees Strange — Horror (4AD)
BLOND:ISH — Never Walk Alone (Insomniac Records)
Chatham Rabbits — Be Real With Me (Chatham Rabbits)
Cryogeyser — Cryogeyser (Cryogeyser)
The Delines — Mr. Luck and Ms. Doom (Decor Records)
Denison Witmer — Anything At All (Asthmatic Kitty)
Doves — Constellations For The Lonely (Universal)
fish narc — frog song (K Records)
Gary Louris — Dark Country (Thirty Tigers)
Horsegirl — Phonetics On and On (Matador)
Immersion and SUSS — Nanocluster Vol.3 (Swim)
JISOO (of BLACKPINK) — AMORTAGE (YG)
John Glacier — Like A Ribbon (Young)
Lacuna Coil — Sleepless Empire (Century Media)
The Lumineers — Automatic (Dualtone)
Mallrat — Light hit my face like a straight right (Nettwerk)
Margaret Cho — Lucky Gift (Clownery Records)
Marshall Allen — New Dawn (Mexican Summer)
Mereba — The Breeze Grew a Fire (Secretly Canadian)
Neil Young — Oceanside Countryside (Reprise Records)
Ohgeesy — Paid N Full (Atlantic)
Oracle Sisters — Divinations (Wizard Artists)
Oslo Twins — Tresor EP (Half Normal Records)
Richard Dawson — End of the Middle (Domino)
Rusty Williams — Grand Man (Congrats Records)
Shygirl — Club Shy Room 2 EP (Because Music)
Thala — Avalance (Fire Records)
The Velveteers — A Million Knives (Easy Eye Sound)
The War and Treaty — Plus One (UMG)
WARLUNG — The Poison Touch (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Winona Fighter — My Apologies to the Chef (Rise Records)
Friday, February 21
A Great Big World — then there were sparks EP (Ian and Chad LLC)
Anna Shoemaker — Someone Should Stop Her (+1 Records)
Anxious — Bambi (Run For Cover Records)
Basia Bulat — Basia’s Palace (Secret City Records)
Bren Joy — Sunset Black (Bren Joy)
Califone — The Villagers Companion (Jealous Butcher Records)
CHALK — Conditions III EP (Dutch Tilt)
Colin Self — respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis (RVNG Intl.)
Dirty Honey — Mayhem and Revelry Live (Dirt Records)
Ellis Mano Band — MORPH (SPV Recordings)
Floodlights — Underneath ([PIAS])
Glixen — Quiet Pleasures EP (Wichita Recordings)
IDER — Late to the World (Nettwerk)
Kameron Marlowe — Sad Songs For The Soul (Sony)
Katy Pinke — Strange Behavior (Katy Pinke)
Kelora — Sleepers (True Panther Records)
Killswitch Engage — This Consequence (Metal Blade Records)
Les Rallizes Dénudés — YaneUra Sept. ’80 (Temporal Drift)
Luke Sital-Singh — Fool’s Spring (Nettwerk)
Masma Dream World — Please Come to Me (Valley Of Search)
Max Frost — Shelby Ave (Nettwerk)
The Murder Capital — Blindness (Human Seasons Records)
Nao — Jupiter (Sony)
Nina Nesbitt — Mountain Music (The Summit) (Apple Tree Records)
ONE OK ROCK — DETOX (Elektra)
Patterson Hood — Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams (ATO)
Porridge Radio — The Machine Starts To Sing EP (Secretly Canadian)
Rum Jungle — Recency Bias (Rum Jungle)
SAINt JHN — Festival Season (GODD COMPLEXX)
Sam Fender — People Watching (Universal)
Saya Gray — SAYA (Dirty Hit)
Scour — Gold (Nuclear Blast)
Silverstein — Antibloom / Pink Moon (UNFD)
Tate McRae — So Close To What (RCA)
Tim Hecker — Shards (kranky)
Trupa Trupa — Mourners EP (Glitterbeat Records)
The Wombats — Oh! The Ocean (AWAL)
Yawning Balch — Volume Three (Heavy Psych Sounds)
The Young Mothers — Better If You Let It (Birdwatcher Records)
Youth Lagoon — Rarely Do I Dream (Fat Possum Records)
Ziggy Alberts — New Love (Commonfolk Records)
Friday, February 28
Aloe Blacc — Stand Together (Grand Scheme Productions)
Andy Bell — pinball wanderer (Sonic Cathedral)
Architects — The Sky, The Earth & All Between (Epitaph)
ARTEMIS — ARBORESQUE (UMG)
Banks — Off With Her Head (Her Name Is Banks)
bdrmm — Microtonic (Rock Action Records)
Bonnie Trash — Mourning You (Hand Drawn Dracula)
Chesney Hawkes — Living Arrows (HGLA)
Chick Corea, Christian McBride, and Brian Blade — Trilogy 3 (Universal)
The Chills — Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs (Fire Records)
Cloakroom — Last Leg of the Human Table (Closed Casket Activities)
Cornelia Murr — Run to the Center (22TWENTY)
CAPYAC & Reggie Watts — Songs from Celestial City EP (Nettwerk)
Darkside — Nothing (Matador)
David Grubbs — Whistle from Above (Drag City)
Deep Sea Diver — Billboard Heart (Sub Pop Records)
The Devil Makes Three — Spirits (New West Records)
Domestic Drafts — Only the Singer (Glamour Gowns)
Double Wish — Deeper Ecstasy EP (Hit the North Records)
Edith Frost — In Space (Drag City)
Eric Bass — Eric Bass Presents: I Had A Name (Eric Bass Presents)
Everything Is Recorded — Temporary (XL)
Hachiku — The Joys of Being Pure at Heart (Marathon Artists)
Hope Tala — Hope Handwritten (Secretly Distribution)
Ichiko Aoba — Luminescent Creatures (Psychic Hotline)
JD Clayton — Blue Sky Sundays (Rounder Records)
Kip Moore — Solitary Tracks (Slowhearts Production)
Lettuce — Lettuce with the Colorado Symphony (Lettuce Records)
Lisa — Alter Ego (RCA Records)
Marie Davidson — City of Clowns (DEEWEE/Because Music)
Max Cooper III — The Overthinker EP (Max Cooper Music)
Mdou Moctar — Tears of Injustice (Matador Records)
The Men — Buyer Beware (Fuzz Club)
Michi — Dirty Talk (Stones Throw Records)
Miya Folick — Erotica Veronica (Nettwerk)
Panda Bear — Sinister Grift (Domino)
Perfect Plan — Heart of a Lion (Frontiers Records Srl)
Polly Paulusma — Wildfires (One Little Independent Records)
serpentwithfeet — GRIP SEQUEL (Secretly Canadian)
The Ting Tings — Home (Finca)
Venamoris — To Cross or To Burn (PIAS)
