Some gentle housekeeping: there seems to be a resurgence of phobic and/or ableist slurs of late and this must cease, please. When the trash takes itself out like lemmings, there’s no need to revert back to edgelord posturing. Give a man a little power, and he falls in all kinds of love with himself. Also, the 2025 staff list is appreciably similar to the community list — who else was going to put Deafheaven at #1 along with The Callous Daoboys and Ethel Cain in the Top 5? One fun fact is that Oklou made its way high up in the 30-11 tier. Love is a chemical; we give it meaning by choice. Whether you are a daily presence, took a short break, or are returning after a long respite, we love you, even if we don’t love the site “randomly” timing out. Below is a small batch of new releases for the week of February 20th to continue placating the one person who thinks these get posted too late in the week. We all make choices, but in the end, our choices make us. Feel free to jam the playlist below, request reviews from staff and contributors, let us know what you’re looking forward to this week (in music or otherwise), and yes, congratulations, you’ve won a battle of wits with a home appliance!

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– List of Releases: February 20th, 2026 –

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Above, Below – I Guess It Was Nowhere
Genre: Metalcore / Djent
Label: [independent]

Absolutely – Paracosm
Genre: Chamber Pop / Contemporary R&B
Label: Epic

Ally Evenson – Speed Kills
Genre: Indie Rock / Bedroom Pop
Label: Atlantic

Altın Gün – Garip
Genre: Anatolian Rock / Psychedelic Rock
Label: Glitterbeat

Apparat – A Hum of Maybe
Genre: Ambient Pop / Progressive Electronic
Label: Mute

Atlas – Sunder
Genre: Alternative Metal / Djent
Label: Odyssey

Baby Keem – Ca$ino
Genre: Trap / Cloud Rap
Label: pgLang

The Band of Heathens – Country Sides
Genre: Alt-Country / Americana
Label: BOH

Banshee – The Secrets to Altering Reality
Genre: Witch House / Synthpop
Label: [independent]

Bizarrekult – Alt Som Finnes
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal / Post-Metal
Label: Season of Mist

Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean – Let Us Not Speak of Them But Look and Pass On
Genre: Sludge Metal / Doom Metal
Label: Redscroll

Choker – Heaven Ain’t Sold
Genre: Alternative R&B / New Jack Swing
Label: Jet Fuzz

The Enemy – Social Disguises
Genre: Indie Rock / Power Pop
Label: The Enemy

Exhumed – Red Asphalt
Genre: Deathgrind / Goregrind
Label: Relapse

Eye of Melian – Forest of Forgetting
Genre: Cinematic Classical / New Age
Label: Napalm

Good Tiger – The Most Negative Day of the Year
Genre: Swancore / Progressive Metal
Label: 3DOT

Hen Ogledd – Discombobulated
Genre: Art Rock / Progressive Pop
Label: Domino / Weird World

Hilary Duff – luck… or something
Genre: Synthpop / New Wave
Label: Atlantic

Incandescence – Hors Temps
Genre: Melodic Black Metal / Blackened Death Metal
Label: Profound Lore

Isabel Pine – Fables
Genre: Ambient / Modern Classical
Label: kranky

Jim Noir – Programmes for Cools
Genre: Neo-Psychedelia / Indietronica
Label: Dook Recordings

Larry June, Curren$y & The Alchemist – Spiral Staircases
Genre: Drumless / Jazz Rap
Label: ALC

Leigh-Anne – My Ego Told Me To
Genre: Contemporary R&B / Dance-Pop
Label: Virgin

Marielle V Jakobsons – The Patterns Lost to Air
Genre: Space Ambient / Modern Classical
Label: Thrill Jockey

Megan Moroney – Cloud 9
Genre: Country Pop / Pop Rock
Label: Sony

Mirrorcell – Long Nights in Lovescape
Genre: Alternative Metal / Djent
Label: InVogue

Moby – Future Quiet
Genre: Ambient Pop / Downtempo
Label: BMG

Moonchild – Waves
Genre: Neo-Soul / Nu Jazz
Label: oneRPM

Mothica – Somewhere In Between [EP]
Genre: Alternative Metal / Alt-Pop
Label: SharpTone

Mumford & Sons – Prizefighter
Genre: Folk Pop / Indie Folk
Label: Glassnote

Nathan Fake – Evaporator
Genre: IDM / Wonky Techno
Label: Infiné

New Found Glory – Listen Up!
Genre: Pop-Punk / Easycore
Label: Pure Noise

Nubiyan Twist – Chasing Shadows
Genre: Jazz-Funk / Afrobeat
Label: Strut

Peaches – No Lube So Rude
Genre: EBM / Synth Punk
Label: Kill Rock Stars

smush – Standards [Covers EP]
Genre: Shoegaze / Indietronica
Label: elev8

Sports – Sports
Genre: Chillwave / Hypnagogic Pop
Label: Naked

Sylosis – The New Flesh
Genre: Groove Metal / Melodic Metalcore
Label: Nuclear Blast

trauma ray – Carnival [EP]
Genre: Shoegaze / Alternative Metal
Label: Dais

The Veer Union – Reinvention
Genre: Alternative Metal / Post-Grunge
Label: Arising Empire

Worm Shepherd – Dawn of the Iconoclast
Genre: Deathcore / Symphonic Black Metal
Label: Unique Leader

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