Best Albums of February 2024
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Friday, 2 February
Dead Yellow – What Was Left of Them
$10 USD
48:37
atmospheric black metal
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Solace [08:19]
2. What Are You Waiting For In Order To Give In [05:48]
3. I Am A House On Fire [02:55]
4. Katla [08:50]
5. The Winds That Came [03:19]
6. Fallen Trees [16:21]
7. What Was Left Of Them [03:05]
Lawrence Fields – To the Surface
$12 USD
59:46
modern jazz
New York, New York
Rhythm & Flow
Tracklist (click to display)1. Parachute [07:28]
2. New Season Blues [06:39]
3. Moving On [08:59]
4. L.B.F. [03:10]
5. To the Surface [07:32]
6. Yasorey [02:41]
7. Vision [06:38]
8. I Fall In Love Too Easily [08:06]
9. Sketches [01:40]
10. The Lookout [06:53]
Galaxie – À demain peut-être
$10 CAD
33:28
noise rock
Montréal, Québec
Lazy at Work
Tracklist (click to display)1. Anomie [02:59]
2. Dolbeau [03:01]
3. Lune [03:40]
4. Le spleen de Montréal [02:14]
5. À demain peut-être [03:14]
6. Ramen soupe [02:12]
7. Foulard [02:33]
8. Cucumber Moon [03:39]
9. Tarentule [02:46]
10. Arcade [02:42]
11. HHHEEENNN!!! [04:28]
Vijay Iyer – Compassion
65:17
modern jazz
New York
ECM
Persefone – Lingua ignōta, Part Ⅰ
$5.99 USD
26:01
progressive metal
Andorra
Napalm
Tracklist (click to display)1. Sounds And Vessels [02:16]
2. One Word [05:57]
3. The Equable [06:28]
4. Lingua Ignota [07:34]
5. Abyssal Communication [03:46]
Them Moose Rush – Zepaxia
€7 EUR
50:15
progressive rock
Bjelovar, Croatia
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Drnduša [02:48]
2. Lapatopop [02:35]
3. Acid Hesitation [03:57]
4. Sundog Sunburn [02:09]
5. Old Bones [03:52]
6. Cake Crisis Resolved [03:57]
7. Zepaxia [03:17]
8. Last Call [03:10]
9. Let Me Go [03:57]
10. Bliss [04:05]
11. Frozen Fumes [03:47]
12. T-Jay [02:42]
13. Stuck In A Moment [02:48]
14. Swimming In Your Bladder [02:32]
15. Half Gello [01:42]
16. Procrastinator [02:57]
Utopia – Shame
£7 GBP
34:55
technical metalcore
UK
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Machiavelli [03:35]
2. Shame [03:39]
3. Waking Visions [04:38]
4. Sun Damage [03:10]
5. Zither [03:13]
6. Never Argue With An Idiot [01:23]
7. Withering Away and Laughing [05:03]
8. Social Contracts [02:10]
9. The Gift of Failure [03:19]
10. Moving Gently Towards the Grave [04:45]
Saturday, 3
L’ombra – Soli
€10 EUR
42:11
post-rock
Chambéry, France
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Soli I [04:36]
2. Tissu [04:03]
3. Soli II [05:09]
4. L’Hirondelle [05:24]
5. Amigdala [03:32]
6. Plume [03:25]
7. Maman [05:31]
8. Nonni [05:48]
9. Pas à pas [04:43]
Monday, 5
Necroflex – Synaptic Defragmentation
$6.99 USD
21:06
brutal electro-death
United States
Inherited Suffering
Tracklist (click to display)1. Fragmented 12.53% [02:38]
2. Fragmented 22.93% [02:11]
3. Fragmented 36.41% [02:51]
4. Fragmented 49.01% [02:40]
5. Fragmented 62.17% [02:47]
6. Fragmented 75.26% [02:45]
7. Fragmented 88.34% [02:46]
8. Fragmented 100.00% [02:28]
Waxwolf – The Golden Room
€5 EUR
34:03
progressive metal
Modena, Italy
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Door [04:54]
2. This One To Feel Good [08:19]
3. The Golden Room [15:57]
4. Door (Instrumental) [04:53]
Wednesday, 7
幽霊 – Oslo hollender
49 NOK
45:21
avant-prog
Oslo, Norway
Bjeima
Tracklist (click to display)1. Det Ornitologiske Vakuum [06:57]
2. Oslo Infernum [03:49]
3. Over Navnløse Gater [05:47]
4. Fragmenter [05:35]
5. På De Siste Elektriske Bølger [05:49]
6. Askehagene Bevrer [07:16]
7. Under Det Råtne Egg [04:35]
8. Barndommens Åtsel [05:33]
Friday, 9
Benoît Lugué – Freedom
€9.99 EUR
26:31
indie rock
Paris, France
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Tarifa Tanger [03:57]
2. Rumba Libre [03:37]
3. Freedom [03:06]
4. Embolie [04:48]
5. Petit éléphant [03:15]
6. Lumumba [03:18]
7. Danse avec la lune [04:30]
Macroscream – Macrophonix
€8 EUR
51:39
progressive rock
Milano, Italy
Alt Rock
Tracklist (click to display)1. Inside the Tunnel [03:12]
2. First Step [05:26]
3. Sand Dunes [04:55]
4. Follow me Down [06:25]
5. Bloody Noise [05:45]
6. Macrophonix [03:09]
7. Waiting for my Turn [05:18]
8. Standing on a Miracle [06:37]
9. Road to the East [09:41]
10. Outside the Tunnel [01:11]
Spectral Voice – Sparagmos
$7 USD
45:12
death metal
Denver, Colorado
Dark Descent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Be Cadaver [11:52]
2. Red Feasts Condensed Into One [12:51]
3. Sinew Censer [07:39]
4. Death’s Knell Rings in Eternity [12:50]
Theophonos – Ashes in the Huron River
$10 CAD
40:11
avant-garde black metal
Detroit, Michigan
Profound Lore
Tracklist (click to display)1. The Built World [01:30]
2. No Reprieve [05:31]
3. Curse Envy [01:26]
4. Willing Power [05:12]
5. Grid of Sorrows [03:22]
6. An Elegy [04:09]
7. Ashes in the Huron River [04:55]
8. Empty Gardens [03:26]
9. Still You Haunt Me [06:13]
10. As Long as Forever [04:27]
Monday, 12
Edhochuli – Higherlander
$10 USD
40:35
post-hardcore
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Questionably Paleo, Incontravertably Neanderthal [07:03]
2. Only Time Will Tell if We Will Stand the Test of Time [07:46]
3. I Must Build [08:53]
4. I’ll Never Forget ‘Ol What’s His Name [08:27]
5. Your Shitty Life Got Stuck in My Eye [08:26]
Entheos – Acédie
Name your price
29:12
progressive black metal
Montréal, Québec
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Marécage [04:58]
2. Sali [07:13]
3. Malaise [03:37]
4. Ascension [05:21]
5. L’étouffeur [01:12]
6. Cauchemar [06:51]
Tuesday, 13
Christian Molenaar – Laughlin Cantate
Name your price
47:36
indie folk
San Diego, California
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Snakes [02:50]
2. Rules of the Game [02:34]
3. Wandering Shadows [03:32]
4. Sunflower [06:24]
5. The Bridge [03:05]
6. A Song for Someone [06:08]
7. Little Red [05:19]
8. In the Waves [03:50]
9. Dead End [03:24]
10. Job Eats Them Raw, with the Dogs [10:30]
Friday, 16
The Aristocrats – Duck
$10 USD
59:41
jazz fusion
Los Angeles, California
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Hey, Where’s MY Drink Package? [07:01]
2. Aristoclub [04:46]
3. Sgt. Rockhopper [05:51]
4. Sittin’ With A Duck On A Bay [07:21]
5. Here Come The Builders [06:16]
6. Muddle Through [07:01]
7. Slideshow [07:15]
8. And Then There Were Just Us-Duck’s End [09:04]
9. This Is Not Scrotum [05:06]
Ekmeles – We Live the Opposite Daring
$10 USD
67:51
contemporary choir
New York, New York
New Focus
Tracklist (click to display)1. James Weeks: Primo Libro [17:54]
2. Zosha Di Castri: We live the opposite daring: I. I long and seek after [03:24]
3. Zosha Di Castri: We live the opposite daring: II. Nor desire, but all at once [04:41]
4. Zosha Di Castri: We live the opposite daring: III. We live, the opposite, daring [03:12]
5. Zosha Di Castri: We live the opposite daring: IV. Someone will remember us, I say [03:17]
6. Hannah Kendall: this is but an oration of loss [10:06]
7. Shawn Jaeger: love is [07:04]
8. Jeffrey Gavett: Waves: I [02:06]
9. Jeffrey Gavett: Waves: II [02:05]
10. Jeffrey Gavett: Waves: III [02:08]
11. Erin Gee: Mouthpiece 36: Part 1 [02:04]
12. Erin Gee: Mouthpiece 36: Part 2 [04:58]
13. Erin Gee: Mouthpiece 36: Part 3 [00:14]
14. Erin Gee: Mouthpiece 36: Part 4 [04:38]
Ihsahn – Ihsahn
48:22
progressive metal
Norway
Candlelight
Sean Ono-Lennon – Asterisms
37:05
avant-garde jazz
New York, New York
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Pestilength – Solar Clorex
€7.77 EUR
36:16
blackened death metal
PV, Spain
Dēbēmur mortī
Tracklist (click to display)1. Intraexsanguination [01:24]
2. Neerv [04:12]
3. Occlusive [04:29]
4. Enthronos Wormwomb [05:27]
5. Baleful Profusion [02:05]
6. Dilution Haep [04:43]
7. Oxide Veils [03:12]
8. Choirs of None [04:13]
9. Verbalist Aphonee [06:31]
Serpent with Feet – Grip
$10 USD
29:10
R&B
New York, New York
Secretly Canadian
Tracklist (click to display)1. Damn Gloves feat. Ty Dolla $ign & Yanga YaYa [02:31]
2. Safe Word [02:46]
3. Spades [03:25]
4. Deep End [02:46]
5. Rum – Throwback [03:41]
6. Black Air Force [02:48]
7. Hummin’ [02:54]
8. Ellipsis [03:21]
9. Lucky Me [02:27]
10. 1 to 10 [02:31]
Zombieshark! – Die Laughing
$10 USD
30:11
cybergrind
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. The Fool [00:55]
2. Party All The Time [01:36]
3. Bastard Spelled Backwards [01:59]
4. Heads I Win, Tales You Lose, You Are My Sunshine [02:19]
5. RGB Gaming Guillotine [01:50]
6. Loxosceles On The Isosceles (feat. SOULKEEPER) [02:40]
7. Mosquito In The Embroidery Room [01:06]
8. Procedurally Generated Bear Traps [02:48]
9. Problem Child [00:42]
10. Online Garden Of Eden HD (feat. Fire-Toolz) [02:01]
11. Home Before Sunset (feat. Hallucinogenic Bulb) [01:57]
12. Put Your Glasses On, Nothing Can Be Wrong [02:07]
13. As Beautiful And As Terrible As The Dawn [01:57]
14. Does Barcode Man Believe In God? [01:45]
15. Counting Star Silo For Miles [01:23]
16. Blue Mountain [03:06]
Friday, 23
The Body & Dis Fig – Orchards of a Futile Heaven
$10 USD
38:16
experimental noise metal
Portland, Oregon
Thrill Jockey
Tracklist (click to display)1. Eternal Hours [04:58]
2. To Walk a Higher Path [03:31]
3. Dissent, Shame [04:03]
4. Orchards of a Futile Heaven [05:57]
5. Holy Lance [03:49]
6. Coils of Kaa [09:15]
7. Back to the Water [06:43]
Maddison Carter – Polymorphic
$15 AUD
67:20
avant-garde jazz
Melbourne, Australia
Earshift Music
Tracklist (click to display)1. Watcher, Sleeper, Maker [12:13]
2. Later Stages [08:52]
3. Tired or Really Wired [15:04]
4. Where Are the Animal Lovers? [03:02]
5. Horse Meat [03:24]
6. Montags [07:07]
7. What About Asparagus? [16:47]
8. Watcher, Sleeper, Maker Reprise [00:51]
The Chronicles of Father Robin – The Songs & Tales of Airoea, Book Ⅲ
€14 EUR
34:19
progressive rock
Oslo, Norway
Karisma
Tracklist (click to display)1. Magical Chronicle [06:09]
2. Skyslumber [07:25]
3. Cloudship [06:56]
4. Empress of the Sun [04:47]
5. Lost in the Palace Gardens [07:58]
6. Epilogue [01:04]
Michael Hersch – Poppaea
$16 USD
100:54
contemporary opera
New York, New York
New Focus
Tracklist (click to display)1. Poppaea: Prologue [02:10]
2. Poppaea: Overture [05:51]
3. Poppaea: Scene I – New Life [11:14]
4. Poppaea: Scene II – The Wedding [01:56]
5. Poppaea: Scene III – Adultery [10:54]
6. Poppaea: Scene IV – Octavia is Innocent [05:22]
7. Poppaea: Interlude I [01:08]
8. Poppaea: Scene V – Octavia [04:57]
9. Poppaea: Scene VI – Poppaea Witnesses Octavia’s Death [10:49]
10. Poppaea: Scene VII – Milk Bath [08:27]
11. Poppaea: Interlude II [00:56]
12. Poppaea: Scene VIII – Claudia Augusta [02:52]
13. Poppaea: Scene IX – Nero’s Lament [04:40]
14. Poppaea: Scene X – The Great Fire [05:40]
15. Poppaea: Scene XI – After the Fire [10:55]
16. Poppaea: Scene XII – This World [13:03]
Job for a Cowboy – Moon Healer
$7.99 USD
39:08
progressive death metal
Glendale, Arizona
Metal Blade
Tracklist (click to display)1. Beyond the Chemical Doorway [04:10]
2. Etched in Oblivion [04:14]
3. Grinding Wheels of Ophanim [05:52]
4. The Sun Gave Me Ashes so I Sought Out the Moon [04:03]
5. Into the Crystalline Crypts [04:21]
6. A Sorrow-Filled Moon [05:37]
7. The Agony Seeping Storm [04:11]
8. The Forever Rot [06:40]
Les Rugissants – Le Cri
79:25
avant-garde jazz
France
Pegazz & l’Hélicon
Otis Sandsjö – Y-Otis tre
€7 EUR
37:03
electro-jazz
Helsinki, Finland
We Jazz
Tracklist (click to display)1. OOMY [03:25]
2. midi day job, pt. 4 [02:25]
3. pluralregn [02:21]
4. perla – moln [04:22]
5. CLICKS 2023 [04:57]
6. earrings [02:26]
7. UNKNOW – SLICK [03:44]
8. sol 94 [02:22]
9. RHUBARBS [03:03]
10. orkaneon [02:32]
11. LOOMY [03:08]
12. donatt gonatt [02:18]
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – Of the Last Human Being
$9 USD
65:33
avant-prog
Oakland, California
Avant Night
Tracklist (click to display)1. Salamander in Two Worlds [06:30]
2. Fanfare for the Last Human Being [01:31]
3. El Evil [05:44]
4. Bells for Kith and Kin [01:25]
5. Silverfish [07:16]
6. S.P.Q.R. [04:05]
7. We Must Know More [03:35]
8. The Gift [06:11]
9. Hush, Hush [07:44]
10. Save It! [02:58]
11. Burn Into Light [05:25]
12. Old Grey Heron [07:24]
13. Rose-Colored Song [05:45]
Simon Toldam – Fem små stykker med tid
59 DKK
38:19
avant-garde jazz
Copenhagen, Denmark
ILK
Tracklist (click to display)1. To Linjer [09:56]
2. Insekt [06:45]
3. Efterdønninger [06:52]
4. Eng [05:42]
5. To ord [09:04]
Pierre Vervloesem – Saucers
€9 EUR
44:45
progressive rock
Brussels, Belgium
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Roskovec [04:38]
2. Ballymahon [05:12]
3. Taszâr [03:45]
4. Lemnos [04:21]
5. Clarenville [04:18]
6. Yerevan [03:56]
7. Antananarivo [04:23]
8. Fatima [04:35]
9. Belgian Wave [02:56]
10. Saucers [06:41]
Sunday, 25
Combat Astronomy – Method and Trap
$7 USD
39:31
avant-prog
St Paul, Minnesota
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Fate Answers Openly [03:17]
2. Lives In Between Lives [05:25]
3. Method and Trap [06:26]
4. Flayer [04:54]
5. Empty Cup [05:37]
6. Evasion [05:21]
7. I Do It [08:31]
Tuesday, 27
Axka ensamble – Sin censura
Name your price
45:59
psychedelic jazz
Tulancingo, Mexico
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. siente [09:49]
2. Linda planta [08:01]
3. Warrior [07:45]
4. Los Barcos [07:32]
5. Aboriginal [12:52]
Trurl – Unmutual
$6 USD
43:26
progressive rock
United States
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Boot Up [07:55]
2. Facade [05:36]
3. Shades Of Black [04:26]
4. Temple Of The Hikikomori [03:37]
5. Food [04:09]
6. Frosting [05:15]
7. The Call To Inaction [02:52]
8. Swan Song [09:36]
Thursday, 29
Big Thanks – Gentle Sports
$8 USD
40:54
experimental jazz
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Scribbled Fang
Tracklist (click to display)1. Gentle Sports [03:18]
2. Ask Your Car [04:46]
3. Milwaukee’s Buck [03:12]
4. On-Lee Fans (True Legends Never Die) [04:01]
5. Drum Poet (For Paul Motian) [12:11]
6. Stress Dream or: Bruce Banner Did the Hulk Smash [03:01]
7. Country Don’t Mean Dumb [07:10]
8. Phone Number Suite Mvt. 3 [03:15]
Jacob Collier – Djesse, Volume 4
jazz fusion
London, UK
Hajanga
Hecatoncheir – Nightmare Utopia
Name your price
31:41
blackened post-metal
Slovakia
Total Dissonance Worship
Tracklist (click to display)1. Dreamless [05:16]
2. Nightmare Utopia (I: The Falsebound Kingdom) [01:27]
3. Nightmare Utopia (II: Him in the Gulf) [04:45]
4. Sefirot of Understanding [05:15]
5. The Crowning Horror [03:45]
6. Madness of the Stars [04:36]
7. The Watcher, The Witness [06:37]
Stagnant Waters – Rifts
€7 EUR
98:40
avant-garde black metal
France
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Black Fields (C) [06:21]
2. Split and Spilt (C) [07:26]
3. Gonad Waltz (C) [09:24]
4. Crackle (C) [05:23]
5. Forced to Go (C) [07:22]
6. Rifts (C) [05:13]
7. Battle Tactics of General Nonsense (C) [05:09]
8. Battle Tactics of General Nonsense (A) [08:46]
9. Black Fields (A) [06:21]
10. Crackle (A) [04:52]
11. Split and Spilt (A) [07:31]
12. Gonad Waltz (A) [11:50]
13. Rifts (A) [07:00]
14. Forced to Go (A) [06:02]
Turtle Boat – Fear Is Heavy, I’ve Got Plans…
$10 USD
38:26
free jazz
Chicago, Illinois
Amalgam
Tracklist (click to display)1. My Brain is Breaking, My Brain is Broking [05:32]
2. Whirl [02:37]
3. Little Bird [05:23]
4. Purging #6 (or I Learned a Lot in a Short Time) [07:15]
5. Yednock [06:38]
6. Less Than [04:11]
7. It’s the Ending of it [05:06]
8. When You Wish Upon A Star [01:44]
