February Album Releases
February album releases
With January giving us the release of albums by Complete Mountain Almanac, Juni Habel, Liela Moss, The Zephyrs, Rozi Plain, Ladytron, King Tuff to name a few, 2023 has begun in spectacular fashion with album releases, and with a multitude of announcements for new albums due later this year. We look ahead at some of the album releases in February that we are most excited about here at Postcards From The Underground.
3rd Feb, The Go! Team - Get Up Sequences PT2 Memphis Industries
Eighteen years after their debut LP The Go! Team remain among the finest at providing psychedelia, Casiotone anthems. Following on from 2021’s “Get Up Sequences Part One”, Part Two from The Go! Team continues with their exploration into joyous positive vibes giving a feeling of Technicolor through irresistible bass lines while lyrically taking a viewpoint of action and organisation for change.
Pre-Order ‘Get Up Sequences Part Two’ Here
10th Feb, Minihi - Stasis Loops Velveteen Records
The creative outlet of London-based composers Zands Duggan and Louise Anna Duggan, Minihi create a uniquely percussive take on contemporary instrumental music by blending mallets, piano and bell-like textures with earthy drums and bubbling synths. The London-based musicians construct vivid soundscapes where the classical palette intersects with the world of groove and electronics.
Pre-Order ‘Stasis Loops’ Here
10th Feb, Yo La tengo - This Stupid World Matador Records
After almost four decades Yo La Tengo share their 17th studio album, This Stupid World is a mesmerising set of reflective tracks that resist the ticking clock. This music is not so much timeless as time-defiant. “I want to fall out of time,” Ira Kaplan sings in “Fallout.” “Reach back, unwind.”
Pre-Order ‘This Stupid World’ Here
17th Feb, Anna B Savage - in/FLUX City Slang Records
Following previous album A Common Turn, Anna B Savage returns with new album 'in|FLUX' , I feel like this album is an exploration of recovery and the journey of therapy,” says Savage.
Heading into the studio with none of the tracks yet fully formed, the experience was fluid and relied on interactions and play with producer Mike Lindsay. Believing she would fall foul of her own negative self-talk, she spent each morning before seeing Mike working on her ‘Morning Pages’, an idea from the popular book The Artist’s Way, which consisted of writing streams of consciousness to actively enact her unlearning, leaning into instinct.
Pre-Order 'in|FLUX' Here
17th Feb, Avey Tare - 7’s Domino Recording Co.
Avey Tare the solo project of Animal Collective's Dave Portner.shares his fourth solo album 7’s, recorded with producer Adam McDaniel (Angel Olsen, Archers of Loaf) at Drop of Sun Studios in his hometown of Asheville, North Carolina, with Portner describribing the album as “a dreamy surrealist landscape.”
Pre-Order 7’s Here
17th Feb, Lowly - Keep Up The Good Work Bella Union
Lowly The internationally acclaimed quintet from Denmark continue to develop their creative process, embracing other peoples’ affection and letting it blend into their songwriting. The result of this journey: Keep Up The Good Work, the band’s most heartfelt work to date.
Pre-Order ‘Keep Up The Good Work’ Here
17th Feb, MF Tomlinson - We Are Still Wild Horses PRAH Recordings
London-based, Brisbane/Meanjin-born singer-songwriter MF Tomlinson second album 'We Are Still Wild Horses' Merging together ambient, experimental jazz, acid-folk and indie folk to otherworldly new territory, We Are Still Wild Horses consists of 4 pieces of music, 40 minutes in length: side A contains 3 songs that build to its title track and central expansive closing piece on side B.
Pre-Order 'We Are Still Wild Horses' Here
17th Feb, PIGS x7 - LAND OF SLEEPER Rocket Recordings
Whether dwelling in the realm of dreams or nightmares, the primordial drive of Newcastle-based Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs is more powerful than ever. Land of Sleeper, their fourth record in a decade of riot and rancour, is testimony to this: the sound of a band not so much reinvigorated as channelling a furious energy, which only appears to gather momentum as the band’s surroundings spin on their axis.
Pre-Order ‘Land of Sleeper’ Here
24th Feb, Free love - Inside Lost Map
Recorded at the band’s Glasgow home studio during and after the lockdowns of 2020-2021, cosmic Scottish electronic pop duo Free Love’s latest offering Inside was completed just before the birth of Lewis and Suzi’s son Echo in the summer of 2022. Featuring 10 tracks of euphoric house, acid pop, celestial drones.
“The sounds and themes on INSIDE came from the experiments we started working on throughout lockdown in our home studio, Full Ashram Celestial Garden,” says Lewis. “Sometimes we’d leave a sound running on loop until little melodies would come in and then that would start to take the form of the track. It has been a weird time for anyone to be making anything creative – to make sense of any reason to it all, we had to position creating music as an essential ritualistic part of our daily existence. We used the studio as a portal and made INSIDE.”
Pre-Order ‘Inside’ Here
24th Feb, U.S. Girls - Bless This Mess 4AD
Eighth album Bless This Mess by U.S. Girls, the project of North American multi-disciplinary and experimental pop artist Meg Remy, A dynamic suite of dexterous melodies and a nuanced artistic response to the complexities of motherhood, Bless This Mess was crafted in tandem with the conception and birth of Remy’s twin boys. It expands the sonic and thematic palette of U.S. Girls, fusing the muses of funk, mythology, and the radical disorientation of joy into an electric tapestry of anthems, aches, and awakenings.
Preorder ‘Bless This Mess’ Here.
More album releases on our radar
3rd Feb, HIFI Sean & David McAlmont - Happy Ending LNFG,
3rd Feb, M(h)aol - Attachment Styles TULLE Collective
3rd Feb, The WAEVE - The WAEVE Transgressive Records
3rd Feb, Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy Ninja Tune
10th Feb, Quasi - Breaking The Balls Of History Sub Pop
10th Feb, Tennis - POLLEN Mutually Detrimental
17th Feb, dEUS - How To Replace It PIAS Recordings
24th, Gorillaz - Cracker Island Parlophone Records
24th, Shame - Food For Worms Dead Oceans
24th, Unloved - Polychrome Heavenly Recordings
