Weekly Release Dump

Friday, 17 January

Absolute Terror Field – Psychospirtual

65:10
free improvisation, noise
Chicago, Illinois
Neutral Archive

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

¡Fiasco! – Arson

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

Garganjua – Toward the Sun

48:40
doomgaze
Leicester, UK
Holy Roar

General Grievous – Mth 6​:​23

22:25
blackened sludge
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Independent

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

Want of Sin – Echoes of Resentment

41:10
doomgaze
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Independent

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

80:40
modern jazz
Finland
Eclipse Music Official Store


Saturday, 18

Autodestruction Needed – Ashes Fire Smoke

27:32
noise
Belgium
Musical Excrements

Kloct – Years of Silence

56:46
atmospheric black metal
France
Independent

My Purest Heart for You – Change of Heart

12:40
blackgaze
South Carolina
Independent

The Planet You – Techxture

41:34
math rock
Montclair, New Jersey
Independent


Monday, 20

An Anderson – Rude Unraveling

33:17
progressive rock, math rock
Portland, Maine
Independent

Endless Floods – Circle the Gold

38:56
drone metal, post-metal
Taiwan
Bad Moon Rising / Shinseinen

Hibernal – Beyond

52:31
post-rock, synthwave
Brisbane, Australia
Independent

Pestilength – Eilatik

43:29
avant-garde death metal
PV, Spain
Red Door


Tuesday, 21

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

51:28
contemporary classical
Montréal, Québec
Ambiances magnétiques

Frank Macchia & Brock Avery – Rhythm Abstraction: Azure

24:06
jazz fusion, progressive rock
Los Angeles, California
Cacophony

Gabriel Dharmoo – Quelques Fictions pour voix

44:10
contemporary classical, electroacoustic
Montréal, Québec
Actuelle CD

Omer Kringel – Okan Project

42:41
world fusion, Afrobeat
Israel
Independent

Quatuor Bozzini – Short Stories

56:54
contemporary classical
Montréal, Québec
Actuelle CD

Светлост (Svetlost) – Jazz (To the Working Class)

45:46
free improvisation
Skopje, Macedonia
PMG Jazz


Wednesday, 22

Henri Roger – Variables

23:07
free improvisation
Monaco
Facing You / IMR&Nl

The Voices – If Nightmares Could Sing

38:12
contemporary classical, a cappella
Italy
Masked Dead


Thursday, 23

Bokotono – Bokotono

16:25
math rock
Galway, Ireland
Independent

Cthulhu Rise – Last

23:39
progressive rock, jazz fusion
Kyiv, Ukraine
Independent

João Braz – Who? and Other Interrogative Pieces

37:30
free improvisation
Barcelona, Spain
Discordian

Maleo – Maleo

18:46
post-metal
Varmland County, Sweden
Independent


Friday, 24

Atena – Drowning Regret & Lungs Filled with Water

31:16
deathcore
Oslo, Norway
Independent

Bohren & der Club of Gore – Patchouli Blue

59:10
dark jazz
Germany
Ipecac

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

49:53
free jazz
Rhode Island
Independent

Etoile filante – Magnum opus caelestis

43:30
ambient black metal
France
Northern Silence

Galleons – Metropolis

60:03
post-hardcore
Australia
Independent

Jennifer Curtis & Tyshawn Sorey – Invisible Ritual

free improvisation
New York, New York
New Focus

John Zorn – Beyond Good and Evil

avant-garde jazz
New York, New York
Tzadik

Label page

Konvent – Puritan Masochism

48:08
doom metal, death metal
Copenhagen, Denmark
Napalm

To Languish – Sown

13:51
post-hardcore
Indiana
Middle-Man

Last Dream of the Morning – Crucial Anatomy

56:50
free improvisation
Vienna, Austria
Trost

Michelangelo Scandroglio – In the Eyes of the Whale

45:08
modern jazz
Grosseto, Italy
Auand

Nero di Marte – Immoto

67:04
progressive post-metal
Bologna, Italy
Season of Mist

Novelists – C’est la vie

37:03
progressive metalcore
Paris, France
Arising Empire

Power Tools – Dissonant Surfer

78:00
free improvisation, noise
Chicago, Illinois
Neutral Archive

Quasarborn – A Pill Hard to Swallow

49:19
progressive thrash metal
Belgrade, Serbia
Independent

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

44:25
avant-garde jazz, free improvisation
Vienna, Austria
Trost

Raphael Weinroth-Browne – Worlds Within

40:40
classical
Canada
Independent

Thy Catafalque – Naiv

47:02
progressive rock
Makó, Hungary
Season of Mist



Upcoming Releases


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

Baraque à Free – Baraque à Free

experimental jazz, free jazz
Toulouse, France
Independent

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

Atlas Quartet – Eclipse

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

Filade – Le Ballet mystique

experimental math rock
Avignon, France
Slice of Wax


Saturday, 1 February

Ángel Ontalva & Vespero – Sada

progressive rock
Spain
October X Art

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

Sakina Abdou, Barbara Dang, and Peter Orins – Lescence / Gmatique

free improvisation
France
Circum-Disc

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.

Sec – Les Aventures apocryphes de George Gallamus

77:51
various
Couffouleux, France
Independent

Bandcamp page


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

Colosso – Apocalypse

blackened death metal
Porto, Portugal
Transcending Obscurity

Frayle – 1692

doom rock
Cleveland, Ohio
Aqualamb

Dan Loomis – Job’s Trials

42:05
modern jazz
New York, New York
Independent

The Heliocentrics – Infinity of Now

psychedelic pop
London, UK
Madlib Invazion

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

Horseneck – Fever Dream

stoner metal
Sacramento, California
Independent

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

Insect Ark – The Vanishing

doom metal, drone
Brooklyn, New York
Profound Lore

Kilter – Axiom

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

Nadia Reid – Out of My Province

indie folk
New Zealand
Spacebomb

Nakata – El sueño de Lilith

avant-garde jazz
Los Angeles, California
Atlantic Rhythms

Ocœur – Everything

ambient electro
France
n5md

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

John Zorn – Virtue

contemporary classical
New York, New York
Tzadik

Label page

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

Ground Patrol – Geophone

math rock, post-rock
New York
Art as Catharsis

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

Horse Lords – The Common Task

experimental rock, avant-prog
Baltimore, Maryland
Northern Spy

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

Aodon – 11069

post-black metal
France
Willowtip

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

Brian Marsella – Gatos do sul

jazz fusion
New York, New York
Tzadik

Label page

Cult of Fire – Moksha / Nirvana

black metal
Prague, Czechia
Beyond Eyes


Wednesday, 1 April

Błoto – Erozje

modern jazz, jazz-hop
Poland
Astigmatic


Friday, 3

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


Friday, 17

Abysmal Dawn – Phylogenesis

technical death metal
Los Angeles, California
Season of Mist

Kim Myhr & Australian Art Orchestra – Vesper

contemporary classical
Oslo, Norway
Hubro


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 24 2020, this entry was posted.