Friday, 1 February
Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom – Glitter Wolf (jazz fusion)
New York, New York
On Royal Potato Family
Astronoid – Astronoid (progressive metal)
Boston, Massachusetts
On Blood Music
Le Butcherettes – Bi Mental (garage rock)
Mexico
On Rise Records
Dopelord, Weedpecker, Major Kong, and Spaceslug [Split] (stoner metal)
Warsaw, Poland
The Emerald Dawn – Nocturne (progressive rock)
St. Ives, UK
On World’s End Records
Fabrice Moreau Quintet – Double Portrait (modern jazz)
France
On Incises
Fange – Punir (sludge metal)
Rennes, France
On Throatruiner Records
Graham Costello’s Strata – Obelisk (modern jazz)
Glasgow, UK
James Brandon Lewis – An Unruly Manifesto (avant-garde jazz)
New York, New York
On Relative Pitch Records
João MacDowell – The Seventh Seal [3-disc] (contemporary classical, opera)
New York, New York
On IBOC
Laurent Dehors Trio – Moutons (jazz fusion)
Rouen, France
On Tous Dehors
Lighteater – Autoscopy (post-rock)
Brooklyn, New York
Mastiff – Plague (sludge metal)
Kingston Upon Hull, UK
On APF Records
موريس لوقا (Maurice Louca) – إلفنتين (Elephantine) (experimental jazz, world fusion)
Cairo, Egypt
On Northern Spy Records
Mörglbl – The Story of Scott Rötti (progressive metal, jazz fusion)
New Jersey
On The Laser’s Edge
Mòs Ensemble – Limbs (experimental jazz)
Ghent, Belgium
On Smeraldina-Rima
Navi – Dissect (experimental electro)
Toronto, Ontario
Pensées nocturnes – Grand Guignol Orchestra (theatrical black metal)
Paris, France
Living Impressions – The Big Dipper (progressive metal, jazz fusion)
Leiria, Portugal
Morild – Så kom mørket og tog mig på ordet en sort sky af minder i afgørende stunder frosset fast i mit indre jeg håber det forsvinder med lyset at dø eller blive fri (atmospheric black metal)
Copenhagen, Denmark
On Indisciplinarian
Sketch the Sky – Switching [EP] (progressive rock, metal)
Port Shepstone, South Africa
Soen – Lotus (progressive post-metal)
Sweden
On Silver Lining Music
Sol iustitiae – Untitled Album (post-metal)
Turin, Italy
Uglyglow – Pills Not Candy [EP] (experimental electro)
Ünum – Contemplatif (post-metal)
Montréal, Québec
William Covert – Music for Synthesizer and Drums (experimental electro, free jazz)
Castlegar, British Columbia
On Coup sur coup
Yodok Ⅲ – This Earth We Walk Upon (ambient jazz)
Trondheim, Norway
On Consouling Sounds
Saturday, 2
Caldera – Tephra (post-metal, sludge)
Athens, Greece
Fountainhead – I Do and I Will [Compilation] (progressive metal, jazz fusion)
Berlin, Germany
On Vmbrella
Sunday, 3
Beyond Quartet – Beyond Quartet (avant-garde jazz, free jazz)
New York, New York
On 11th Street Music
Mayberian Sanskülotts – Neverending Sorry (indie pop)
Kápmegyer, Hungary
The New York Review of Cocksucking – Total Cruise Worship (free jazz, noise)
New York
Pangea – Animal Instincts [EP] (jazz fusion)
Boston, Massachusetts
Patrick Shiroishi and Noel Meek – Break Your Eyes [EP] (avant-garde jazz)
Los Angeles, California
On Sploosh Records
Wels and Awes [Split] (math rock, noise rock)
Berlin, Germany
הזונה מבבל (Hzvnh Mvvl) / Whore of Babylon – Chapter I: Devotion, Adoration, Invocation [EP] (blackened death metal)
Australia
Monday, 4
Autism – Have You Found Peace? (post-metal)
Lithuania
On Saint Ripper Records
Horse Orchestra – Video EP 2018 [EP] (experimental jazz)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Jazztick – The Empress (jazz fusion, VGM)
Santiago, Chile
Plasticbag Facemask – Curation [Compilation] (progressive deathcore)
Fresno, California
Tuesday, 5
Martín Escalante & Noah Souza – The Sprawl [EP] (free jazz)
California
On Potentially Kinetic Records
Max McCargar – Death to Memes (experimental electro, procedural)
Portland, Oregon
Shawn Needham – 50 (jazz fusion)
Newburgh, Indiana
On Rhombus Records
Urghun – Snake’s Hand (ambient electro, synthwave)
Basel, Switzerland
On Katabatik
Thursday, 7
Billy Pod – Drums to Heal Society (jazz fusion, free jazz)
Athens, Greece
On Puzzlemusik
Told – Told [EP] (avant-prog)
Palermo, Italy
On Sasime Records
Friday, 8
Alexander Hawkins – Iron into Wind (avant-garde jazz)
Zürich, Switzerland
On Intakt Records
Anton Eger – Æ (experimental jazz)
Copenhagen, Denmark
On Edition Records
Arcadia Trio – Don’t Call It Justice (modern jazz)
Italy
On Alfamusic
Daniel Carter, Tobias Wilner, Djibril Toure, and Federico Ughi – New York United (free jazz)
Brooklyn, New York
On 577 Records
The Death Particle – Chapter I [Compilation] (alternative jazz)
Wales, UK
Downfall of Gaia – Ethic of Radical Finitude (atmospheric black metal)
Germany
On Metal Blade Records
Emarosa – Peach Club (alternative rock)
Lexington, Kentucky
On Hopeless Records
Fahmi Mursyid & Yuko Araki – Akur [EP] (world fusion, gamelan)
Indonesia/Japan
On Insitu Recordings
FrankJavCee – Volume 2.5 [EP] (hip hop, synthwave)
Los Angeles, California
Ggril – Façons [2-disc] (avant-garde jazz)
Rimouski, Québec
On Tour de bras
Halo Coast – Century of Self [EP] (experimental pop, art rock)
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Labirinto – Divino afflante spiritu (progressive post-metal)
Brazil
On Pelagic Records
Mark de Clive-Lowe – Heritage (jazz fusion, soul)
Los Angeles, California
On Ropeadope
Miho Hazama – Dancer in Nowhere (big band jazz)
New York, New York
On Sunnyside Records
A Novelist – Folie (progressive death metal)
Louisiana
Quinsin Nachoff’s Flux – Path of Totality [2-disc] (jazz fusion)
New York, New York
On Whirlwind Recordings
Seed Ensemble – Driftglass (jazz fusion)
London, UK
On Jazz Re:Freshed
Seer – Volume 6 (blackened doom metal)
Vancouver, British Columbia
On Artoffact Records
Tom Rainey Trio – Combobulated (free jazz)
Zurich, Switzerland
On Intakt Records
Twin Talk – Weaver (jazz fusion)
Chicago, Illinois
On People
Un ensemble & Jean-Luc Guionnet – Points sans surface (avant-garde classical)
Québec
On Circum-Disc
Saturday, 9
This Saxophone Kills Fascists – Live at Turn! Turn! Turn! (free jazz)
Olympia, Washington
Sunday, 10
Green Dome – Thinking in Stitches (avant-garde jazz, contemporary classical)
New York
On Case Study
Oedon’s Writhe – The Essence of the Formless [EP] (black metal, noise)
Croatia
Monday, 11
Karfagen – Echoes from within Dragon Island [2-disc] (progressive rock)
Ukraine
On Caerllysi Music
Ken Aihara – Multiverse (jazz fusion)
New York, New York
A Million Dead Birds Laughing – To the Ether (technical death metal)
Melbourne, Australia
Tuesday, 12
Coral Cross – 002 (blackgaze)
New York, New York
On Black Mirror
Guttersnipe – Ode to Spongehouse [EP] (experimental metal, noise)
Leeds, UK
Wednesday, 13
No Haven – Deep Ends of Shallow Lives (blackened post-hardcore)
Melbourne, Australia
Philippe Vandal – Umwelt (experimental electro)
Montréal, Québec
On Dream Disk Lab
Thursday, 14
Cara Neir – Parts Ⅲ & Ⅳ (post-hardcore)
Dallas
Dali Mráz – Level 25 (jazz fusion, progressive rock)
Czechia
Nihiloxica – Biiri [EP] (world fusion)
Kampala, Uganda
On Nyege Nyege Tapes
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Truie – Gokkun [EP] (deathgrind)
Bayonne, France
Uboa – The Origin of My Depression (experimental, noise)
Australia
Vložte kočku – Domestik Sounds (Songs from and Inspired by the Motion Picture) (experimental rock)
Prague, Czech Republic
Friday, 15
Aavikko – Monopoly (electro, dance fusion)
Siilinjärvi, Finland
On Ektro
Atrium – Gravity Dreams (progressive metal)
Provo, Utah
Backstabber – Conspiracy Theorist (death metal)
Rouyn Noranda, Québec
Cabinets of Curiosity – The Chaos Game (progressive rock)
Mansfield, New Jersey
Cheeto’s Magazine – Amazingous (progressive rock, art pop)
Barcelona, Spain
Coltsblood and Un [Split] (atmospheric doom metal)
Seattle, Washington
Dieu – Fore (experimental rock)
France
On Bermuda Cruise
Gridfailure – Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery I (dark ambient, noise, folk)
Valley Cottage, New York
On Nefarious Industries
Herod – Sombre dessein (sludge metal, post-metal)
Vevey, Switzerland
On Pelagic Records
Hess Usui Suen – もも (Momo) (free jazz)
Atlanta, Georgia
On Already Dead Tapes
Jankomas – Amalgames (avant-prog, noise)
France
On Bermuda Cruise
Kaleikr – Heart of Lead (progressive black metal)
Reykjavík, Iceland
On Debemur Morti Productions
Matthew Shipp Trio – Signature (free jazz, avant-garde jazz)
New York, New York
On ESP-Disk’
Saor – Forgotten Paths (atmospheric black metal)
Scotland, UK
On Avantgarde Music
Simon Toldam Trio – Omhu (modern jazz)
Denmark
On Ilk Music
Sordide – Hier déjà mort (black metal)
France
On Throatruiner Records
SPC ECO – Fifteen (darkwave)
UK
Tom Blankenberg – Atermus (contemporary classical)
Düsseldorf, Germany
Wing Walker Orchestra – Hazel (jazz fusion)
Jersey City, New Jersey
On Ears & Eyes Records
Yaron Herman Trio – Songs of the Degrees (jazz fusion)
France
On Universal Music Division Decca Records France
Y I Y – Dkvdnt (atmospheric black metal)
Berlin, Germany
Saturday, 16
Diarrheal Blast – Diarrheal Blast (noise metal)
Bologna, Italy
On Turgid Animal Records
Soliloque – Window [EP] (nu-prog)
Québec City, Québec
Winterblind – Effigy [EP] (progressive black metal)
Belgium
Sunday, 17
Gestalt – Music by Gestalt (jazz fusion)
Los Angeles, California
On Zero System Immersive Music
Second Grade Knife Fight – Pg. 3 [EP] (grindcore)
Kentucky
Tuesday, 19
Brendan Byrnes – Room Tapes [EP] (microtonal pop rock)
Los Angeles, California
Wednesday, 20
Dyphtê – Exégèse (black metal)
Montréal, Québec
Thursday, 21
Dan James Griffin – Automatrix (progressive metal, nu prog)
Kidderminster, UK
Jean Derome – Sudoku pour Pygmées (experimental jazz)
Montréal, Québec
On Actuellecd
Larsen – Tiles (experimental rock)
Torino, Italy
On Hypershape Records
Lori Freedman – Excess (contemporary classical)
Montréal, Québec
On Actuellecd
Quatuor Bozzini – Simon Martin : Musique d’art (avant-garde classical)
Montréal, Québec
On Actuellecd
Friday, 22
Absolute Terror Field – State Sponsorship [2-disc] (free jazz, experimental rock)
Chicago, Illinois
On Neutral Archive
Ænimus – Dreamcatcher (technical deathcore)
San Francisco, California
On Nuclear Blast Records
Anna Webber – Clockwise (avant-garde jazz)
New York
On Pi Recordings
Basement Research – Impromptus and Other Short Works (modern jazz)
International
On WhyPlayJazz
Black Matter Device – Hostile Architecture [EP] (mathcore)
Fredericksburg, Virginia
Brent Birckhead – Birckhead (jazz fusion)
New York, New York
Cân Bardd – The Last Rain (atmospheric black metal)
Switzerland
On Northern Silence Productions
Chris Potter – Circuits (jazz fusion)
New York, New York
On Edition Records
The Claypool Lennon Delirium – South of Reality (psychedelic rock)
USA
On Prawn Song Records
Dave Liebman, Adam Rudolph, and Hamid Drake – Chi (jazz fusion, free jazz)
New York, New York
On Rarenoise Records
Dominique Fils-Aimé – Stay Tuned! (soul, R&B)
Montréal, Québec
On Ensoul Records
Dream Theater – Distance over Time (progressive metal)
New York, New York
On Insideout Records
Dronte – Quelque part entre la guerre et la lâcheté (experimental progressive metal)
France
On Apathia Records
Gaspard – La forêt de Gaspard (progressive post-metal)
Montréal, Québec
Ghost Iris – Apple of Discord (progressive metalcore, djent)
Denmark
On Long Branch Records
Hippie Diktat – Gran Sasso (experimental jazz, doom metal)
Paris, France
On Coax Records
Խաչատուր Խաչատուրյան (Khatchadour Khatchadourian) – Օրոր ու նանի (Oror ou nani) / Armenian Lullabies (folk, world)
California
معلم حسام كانية (Maalem Houssam Gania) – موساوي صويري (Mosawi Swiri) (gnawa, world)
Essaouira, Morocco
On Hive Mind Records
Marilyn Mazur – Shamania (world fusion, jazz fusion)
Copenhagen, Denmark
On Rarenoise Records
Mindspring Memories – Remembering Your Earth Form (experimental vaporwave)
Chicago, Illinois
On Aloe City Records
Minors – Abject Bodies [EP] (hardcore, powerviolence)
Windsor, Ontario
On Holy Roar Records
Nyos – Now. (math rock, post-rock)
Jyväskylä, Finland
O.R.k. – Ramagehead (progressive rock)
London, UK
On Kscope
Rhys Marsh – October after All (progressive rock, jazz fusion)
Trondheim, Norway
On Karisma Records
Sawce – Bedtime Stories [EP] (math rock)
New Jersey
Signe – To Sappho (jazz fusion, folk)
Finland
On Eclipse Music Official Store
Spellling – Mazy Fly (experimental pop)
Oakland, California
On Sacred Bones Records
Sunwatchers – Illegal Moves (psychedelic rock, jazz fusion)
New York
On Trouble in Mind Records
Tempête – Pyro[Cb] (progressive metal, mathcore)
Montréal, Québec
Tumi Árnason & Magnús Trygvason Eliassen – Allt er ómælið (experimental jazz)
Reykjavík, Iceland
On Reykjavík Record Shop
Wormgasm – Divinations [EP] (experimental electro, noise)
Toulon, France
On Anticorps musique cosmétique
Saturday, 23
Катерина Зяблюк (Kateryna Zjabljuk) – Лісова пісня (Lisova pisnja) / Forest Song (jazz)
Kyiv, Ukraine
Seules les mortes – Seules les mortes [EP] (blackened post-hardcore)
Marseille, France
Monday, 25
Jakob Heinemann – Latticework (contemporary classical)
Madison, Wisconsin
On Scripts Records
Tuesday, 26
Trevor Watts & Stephen Grew – Let It Be: Live in Liverpool (avant-garde jazz)
Warsaw, Poland
On Fundacja Słuchaj
Thursday, 28
Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree – Grandmother (doomgaze)
Stuttgart, Germany
La charogne prostituée – Le paysage de tes entrailles [EP] (experimental black metal, noise)
France
On Les damnés de la Terre
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