Weekly Release Dump

Friday, 10 January

Aiming for Enrike – Music for Working Out

39:15
math rock, noise rock
Oslo, Norway
Pekula

Blind Equation – Born to Die

6:40
cybergrind
Illinois
Independent

Dragged into Sunlight – Terminal Aggressor Ⅱ

28:40
avant-garde doom metal
UK
Prosthetic

Gordon Grdina’s Nomad Trio – Nomad

51:43
modern jazz, free jazz
Vancouver, British Columbia
Independent

Read our review.

Jake Willson – A Piece of the Action

35:17
progressive rock
UK
Independent

Kassad – London Orbital

38:43
post-black metal
Esquimalt, British Columbia
Hypnotic Dirge

Poppy – I Disagree

35:04
alternative metal, pop
Boston, Massachusetts
Sumerian

Pyre – Come Home

29:29
progressive thrash metal
Gainesville, Florida
Independent

Rýr – Left Fallow

50:03
atmospheric post-metal
Kiel, Germany
Narshardaa

Snorlax –

23:09
black metal, sludge
Brisbane, Australia
Brilliant Emperor

Sylvaine & Unreqvited – Time without End

25:41
post-black metal, blackgaze
Canada
Prophecy

Unreqvited – Mosaic Ⅱ: La Déteste et la Détresse

47:46
atmospheric black metal
Canada
Prophecy


Saturday, 11

Golden Mean – Through Walls

30:26
modern jazz, nu jazz
London, UK
Jazz Refreshed

Mehdi Nabti & Prototype – Grooves à mystères

40:52
world fusion
Montréal, Québec
Mehdi Nabti


Monday, 13

Bál –

46:33
atmospheric black metal
Hungary
Independent

Gnarbot – Meinl Sessions, Volume 1

29:32
progressive rock, jazz fusion
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Independent

Jeff Davis – The Fastness

57:48
modern jazz
Brooklyn, New York
Independent

Pía Hernández Trio – Lilith

38:30
modern jazz
New York
Irazú


Tuesday, 14

Abacaxi – 2

35:01
experimental rock, noise
Paris, France
Independent

Discord Means Liberation – Discord Means Liberation

17:22
grindcore
Doncaster, UK
Rip Roaring Shit Storm


Wednesday, 15

Body Void & Keeper – Split

31:49
blackened hardcore
Texas
Tridroid

Fulusu – The Nativity

22:58
math rock, post-hardcore
Tokyo, Japan
Independent

Gleb Kanasevich – If You Want to Be Reborn, Let Yourself Die

57:54
noise, electroacoustic
New York, New York
Independent

مهرزاد محمدی (Mhrz’d Mḥmdy) / Mehrzad Mohammadi – در خاکجایِ آسیمگی، دفنِ سراشیب ها (Dr kh’kj’ye ’asymgy, dfne sr’shyb h’) / In the Grave of Inertia, Buried on the Hillside

19:05
Persian folk
Tehran, Iran
Independent

Vytear – Kingtrips EP2

29:04
experimental electro, breakcore
Denver, Colorado
Occult Research


Thursday, 16

Alec Goldfarb – Laughing Coffin

46:26
avant-garde jazz
Brooklyn, New York
Independent

Artifiseer – Syncretist

32:53
experimental pop
Saint John, New Brunswick
Independent

Mireplaner – Diapiric

18:18
blackened sludge
Sheffield, UK
Sludgelord

Ruminant – Domicile Unknown

28:20
powerviolence
Italy
Shove


Friday, 17

Algiers – There Is No Year

39:46
jazz fusion, hip-hop
Atlanta, Georgia
Matador

Aly Keïta, Jan Galega Brönnimann, and Lucas Niggli – Kalan Teban

60:13
world fusion
Zurich, Switzerland
Intakt

Boreal Hymn – Tundra

20:02
folk black metal
Allegany, New York
Sacrificial Sounds

¡Fiasco! – Arson

34:29
modern jazz
Washington, D.C.
Independent

Garganjua – Toward the Sun

48:40
doomgaze
Leicester, UK
Holy Roar

Gloe – Dead Wait

58:05
progressive rock, post-hardcore
Salt Lake City, Utah
Independent

L’Homme absurde – Belong

40:38
post-black metal
Moscow, Russia
Independent

Jim Black, Thomas Morgan, and Elias Stemeseder – Reckon

47:10
free jazz
Zurich, Switzerland
Intakt

Kaoteon – Kaoteon

35:37
blackened death metal
Netherlands
Independent

Luke Norris – Northernsong

57:03
modern jazz
Bethpage, New York
Ears & Eyes

Markus Reuter – Truce

62:20
progressive rock
Berlin, Germany
Moon June

Movses Pogossian – Modulation Necklace: New Music from Armenia

78:30
contemporary classical
New York, New York
New Focus

Odious Mortem – Synesthesia

37:57
technical death metal
San Francisco, California
Willowtip

Ooioo – Nijimusi

51:32
experimental rock, noise
Japan
Thrill Jockey

Rat King – Vicious Inhumanity

33:09
deathgrind, sludge
Seattle, Washington
Within the Mind

String Orchestra of Brooklyn – Afterimage

49:28
contemporary classical
New York, New York
New Focus

Mikko Pettinen’s Why Not – Two Suites for the Change

80:40
modern jazz
Finland
Eclipse Music Official Store

Want of Sin – Echoes of Resentment

41:10
doomgaze
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Independent



Upcoming Releases


Saturday, 18

Kloct – Years of Silence

atmospheric black metal
France
Independent

The Planet You – Techxture

math rock
Montclair, New Jersey
Independent


Monday, 20

Atlas Quartet – Eclipse

51:14
modern jazz, nu jazz
Lyon, France
Independent

Hibernal – Beyond

post-rock, synthwave
Brisbane, Australia
Independent

Pestilength – Eilatik

avant-garde black metal
PV, Spain
Red Door


Tuesday, 21

Ensemble Super Musique – Voir dans le vent qui hurle les étoile rire, et rire

contemporary classical
Montréal, Québec
Ambiances magnétiques

Frank Macchia & Brock Avery – Rhythm Abstraction: Azure

jazz fusion, progressive rock
Los Angeles, California
Independent

Gabriel Dharmoo – Quelques Fictions

contemporary classical, electroacoustic
Montréal, Québec
Actuelle CD

Quatuor Bozzini – Short Stories

contemporary classical
Montréal, Québec
Actuelle CD


Thursday, 23

Bokotono – Bokotono

math rock
Galway, Ireland
Independent


Friday, 24

Atena – Drowning Regret & Lungs Filled with Water

deathcore
Oslo, Norway
Independent

Brendan Carniaux, Ryan Carniaux, and Max Goldman – Carniaux​/​Goldman​/​Carniaux

49:53
free jazz
Rhode Island
Independent

Colosso – Apocalypse

blackened death metal
Porto, Portugal
Transcending Obscurity

Etoile filante – Magnum opus caelestis

ambient black metal
France
Northern Silence

Galleons – Metropolis

post-hardcore
Australia
Independent

Jennifer Curtis & Tyshawn Sorey – Invisible Ritual

free improvisation
New York, New York
New Focus

Last Dream of the Morning – Crucial Anatomy

free improvisation
Vienna, Austria
Trost

Nero di Marte – Immoto

progressive post-metal
Bologna, Italy
Season of Mist

Torben Snekkestad, Agustí Fernández, and Barry Guy – The Swiftest Traveler

avant-garde jazz, free improvisation
Vienna, Austria
Trost

Raphael Weinroth-Browne – Worlds Within

classical
Canada
Independent

Thy Catafalque – Naiv

progressive rock
Makó, Hungary
Season of Mist


Tuesday, 28

Guinea Pig – The New Neighbors

free jazz
San Francisco, California
Edgetone

M-Kat Ensemble – Eight Durations

free improvisation
San Francisco, California
Edgetone


Thursday, 30

Granite Hands – Void

jazz fusion
Austin, Texas
Independent


Friday, 31

The Conjuration – Gospel

avant-garde death metal
Danville, Virginia
Independent

Deathwhite – Grave Image

progressive metal
United States
Season of Mist

Eric Hofbauer & Tony Leva – Five Agents: Book of Fire

avant-garde jazz
Boston, Massachusetts
CNM

Live People Ensemble – High Water

modern jazz
Moscow, Russia
Fancy Music

Michael Wang – Bone of the Wang, Volume 1

modern jazz
New York, New York
Independent

Stömb – From Nihil

progressive metal
Paris, France
Independent

Thematic – Skyrunner

progressive metal
Chicago, Illinois
Independent

Will Vinson – Four Forty One

modern jazz
New York, New York
Whirlwind


Scheduled for January

Filade – Le Ballet mystique

experimental math rock
Avignon, France
Slice of Wax


Saturday, 1 February

CP Unit – One Foot on the Ground Smoking Mirror Shakedown

avant-garde jazz
New York, New York
Ramp Local

Hubris – Metempsychosis

post-rock
Fribourg, Switzerland
Art as Catharsis

Sound Architects – Regenesis

post-rock
Quezon City, Philippines
Independent

Steve Beresford & John Butcher – Old Paradise Airs

avant-garde jazz
Australia
Iluso

Sunjae Lee – Channel

35:44
avant-garde jazz
Seoul, South Korea
Independent


Sunday, 2

Lent – Croix​-​bâtons

experimental post-rock
France
Tricollectif

Spichard Rencer – You Can’t Ever Go Back

grindcore, mathcore
Tampa, Florida
Independent

Vruumm – Tony Brizza

psychedelic jazz
São Paulo, Brazil
Independent


Thursday, 6

Their Dogs Were Astronauts – Dreamcatcher

progressive metal
Vienna, Austria
Independent

Wonderbach – Lumière, Eau et Minéraux

modern jazz
Paris, France
Collectif Coax


Friday, 7

Antibalas – Fu Chronicles

world fusion
Brooklyn, New York
Daptone

David Lang – The Loser

contemporary classical, opera
New York, New York
Cantaloupe Music

Fonema Consort – Vistas furtivas

contemporary classical
New York, New York
New Focus

Fraktal – Reconciliation

55:58
jazz fusion
Berlin, Germany
QFTF

Hegemon & Nature morte – Split

blackgaze
Paris, France
Independent

Karg – Traktat

post-black metal
Seesen, Germany
Art of Propaganda

Krosis – A Memoir of Free Will

progressive deathcore
North Carolina
Unique Leader

清水三恵子 (Mieko Shimizu) – サク (Saku) / I Bloom

experimental pop
London, UK
Kartel Music Group

Pablo Held Trio & Nelson Veras – Ascent

moden jazz
Cologne, Germany
Edition

Thoren – Gwarth Ⅱ

avant-garde death metal
Sterling Heights, Michigan
Drylands


Sunday, 9

Frederick Galiay – Time Elleipsis

avant-garde jazz, contemporary classical
France
Ayler

Sec – L’Aventure complète de George Gallamus

69:35
avant-prog
Couffouleux, France
Independent

Read our review.


Friday, 14

Beach Bunny – Honeymoon

indie rock
Chicago, Illinois
Mom + Pop

Ben Verdery – Scenes from Ellis Island

contemporary classical
New York, New York
New Focus

Collocutor – Continuation

jazz fusion
London, UK
On the Corner

Frayle – 1692

doom rock
Cleveland, Ohio
Aqualamb

Dan Loomis – Job’s Trials

42:05
modern jazz
New York, New York
Independent

Necrowretch – The Ones from Hell

black metal, blackened death metal
France
Season of Mist

Oiseaux-tempête – طلامس (Ṭlāms) / Sortilège

experimental post-rock
Paris, France
Independent

Parachute for Gordo – Best Understood by Children and Animals

math rock
England, UK
Beth Shalom

Psychotic Waltz – The God-Shaped Void

progressive rock
California
Inside Out

Sign Libra – Sea to Sea

synthwave, experimental electro
New York
RVNG

Y Music – Ecstatic Science

contemporary classical
New York, New York
New Amsterdam


Saturday, 15

Floral – Floral

math rock
California
Independent

Twins – Soon

post-hardcore
Ontario
No Funeral


Monday, 17

Bird Problems – Beyond the Nest

progressive metal
Montréal, Québec
Independent

Samo Šalamon, Igor Matković, and Kristijan Krajnčan – Common Flow

49:54
modern jazz
Maribor, Slovenia
Independent

Samo Šalamon, Igor Matković, and Kristijan Krajnčan – Rare Ebb

47:56
modern jazz
Maribor, Slovenia
Independent


Friday, 21

Binary Code – Mementō morī

progressive metal
New York, New York
Independent

Bram De Looze – Colour Talk

modern jazz, nu jazz
Ghent, Belgium
Sdban

Cocanha – Puput

world, folk
Pau, France
Pagans

Dix Ailes – Dix Ailes

contemporary classical, electroacoustic
Paris, France
Collectif Coax

In Technicolour – Big Sleeper

47:07
post-metal
Sydney, Australia
Art as Catharsis

Jim Hart & Ivo Neame – Multiverse

jazz fusion
London, UK
Edition

Jure Pukl – Broken Circles

modern jazz
New York, New York
Whirlwind

Lightning Bolt – Ride the Skies

noise rock
Providence, Rhode Island
Thrill Jockey

Pat Metheny – From This Place

modern jazz
New York, New York
Nonesuch

Polaris – The Death of Me

alternative metalcore
Sydney, Australia
Resist

Sightless Pit – Grave of a Dog

exprimental sludge metal, noise
Rhode Island
Thrill Jockey

Xenobiotic – Mordrake

blackened death metal
Australia
Unique Leader


Saturday, 22

The Motion Mosaic – Avant​-​Garbage

mathcore
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Independent


Monday, 24

The Giving Shapes – Earth Leaps Up

40:32
indie classical, pop
Jersey City, New Jersey
Elsewhere

Psalm Zero – Sparta

progressive metal
New York, New York
Last Things


Friday, 28

Kilter – Axiom

experimental jazz, progressive metal
Brooklyn, New York
Alter-Nativ

Nadia Reid – Out of My Province

indie folk
New Zealand
Spacebomb

Ocœur – Everything

ambient electro
France
n5md

Label page

Regarde les hommes tomber – Ascension

46:48
blackened post-metal
France
Season of Mist

Siti Muharam – Siti’s of Unguja (Romance Revolution on Zanzibar)

world fusion
Zanzibar, Tanzania
On the Corner

Toundra – Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

post-rock
Madrid, Spain
Inside Out

Trying Science – Next

math rock
Austin, Texas
Independent


Saturday, 29

Brickwork – Brickwork

avant-garde jazz
New York, New York
Independent

Bandcamp page


Scheduled for February

Eldar Djangirov Trio – Rhapsodize

jazz fusion, modern jazz
New York
Independent

Serpents of Pakhangba – Serpents of Pakhangba

avant-prog
Mumbai, India
Independent


Friday, 6 March

Dwaal – Gospel of the Vile

post-metal, sludge
Oslo, Norway
Karisma & Dark Essence

Jasper Høiby – Planet B

modern jazz
Copenhagen, Denmark
Edition

Novena – Eleventh Hour

progressive metal
London, UK
Frontiers Music

Pure Wrath – The Forlorn Soldier

atmospheric black metal
West Java, Indonesia
Dēbēmur mortī

Souphl – Commérages

experimental death metal
Québec
Independent


Friday, 13

Aronious – Perspicacity

technical death metal
Green Bay, Wisconsin
The Artical Era

Artús – Cerc

free improvisation
Pau, France
Pagans

Huntsmen – Mandala of Fear

progressive doom metal
Chicago, Illinois
Prosthetic

Satan – Toutes Ces Horreurs

blackened grindcore
Laval, France
Throatruiner

Spectral Lore & Mare Cognitum – Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine

atmospheric black metal
International
I, Voidhanger

Sutrah – Alḗtheia

progressive technical death metal
Montréal, Québec
The Artical Era


Friday, 20

Christian Münzner – Path of the Hero

progressive power metal
Bad Neustadt An Der Saale, Germany
Independent

Neorhythm – Terrastory

progressive death metal
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Independent

Tineke Postma – Freya

modern jazz
Netherlands
Edition


Friday, 27

Bottom Bracket – I Don’t Care Enough to Stay

math rock, post-hardcore
Springfield, Illinois
Independent

Igorrr – Spirituality and Distortion

breakcore
France
Metal Blade

Telepathy – Burn Embrace

post-metal, sludge
Essex, UK
Svart


Scheduled for March

Cult of Fire – Moksha / Nirvana

black metal
Prague, Czechia
Beyond Eyes


Friday, 3 April

Cabal – Drag Me Down

blackened deathcore
Copenhagen, Denmark
Long Branch

The Kraken Quartet & Adobo – Backdrop

nu jazz, post-rock
Austin, Texas
Independent

Nnamdï – Brat

alternative pop
Chicago, Illinois
Sooper

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Viscerals

stoner metal, sludge
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Rocket

Tētēma – Necroscape

experimental rock
United States
Ipecac

Thundercat – It Is What It Is

funk, soul
Los Angeles, California
Brainfeeder

Tvivler – Ego

post-hardcore, noise rock
Copenhagen, Denmark
Independent

Wvrm – Colony Collapse

blackened grindcore, deathgrind
Greenville, South Carolina
Prosthetic


Friday, 10

Azusa – Loop of Yesterdays

mathcore
International
Napalm

Benighted – Obscene Repressed

brutal death metal
Balbigny, France
Season of Mist


Saturday, 25 April

Guillaume Tremblay – Dead End

modern jazz
Québec
Independent


Scheduled for 2020

Arkaik – To Be Announced

technical death metal
Riverside, California
The Artical Era

ᚪᚱᛊᛏᛁᛞᛁᚱ᛬ᛚᛁᚠᛊᛁᚾᛊ (Árstíðir lífsins) – Saga á tveim tungum Ⅱ : Eigi fjǫll né firðir

atmospheric black metal
Iceland
Independent

Bandcamp page

Frutería Toñi – El porvenir está en las huevas

progressive rock
Málaga, Spain
Independent

Crowdfunding campaign

Gralaghorr – The Divine Spectacle of Rebirth

atmospheric black metal
Somerville, Massachusetts
Independent

Hyper Olympic – Life Is but a Dream Team

experimental math rock
Atlanta, Georgia
Independent

Bandcamp page

Irreversible Entanglements – To Be Announced

avant-garde jazz
Chicago, Illinois
International Anthem

Kevel – Mūtātīs mūtandīs

progressive post-metal
Athens, Greece
Independent

Marie-Hélène Breault & Pamela Reimer – Mes Hommages

contemporary classical
Montréal, Québec
Collection QB

Nytt Land – Cvlt

dark folk
Kalachinsk, Russia
Ksenza

Safety Squad – Adventure Jazz

jazz fusion
Columbus, Ohio
Independent

Band page

Xander Naylor – Continuum

avant-garde jazz
Brooklyn, New York
Independent

On January 17 2020, this entry was posted.