Albums added in February: 17,821

Featured Selections

Apoptygma Berzerk, You and Me Against the World (14)

Apoptygma’s Stephan Groth met stiff scene resistance in shifting from earlier, harsh attack EBM to the kind of epic synth rock exhibited here to great effect. Naturally, cries of ’sellout’ and fan rebellion were followed by the album achieving runaway success, particularly in Tokio Hotel-loving Germany. Anthemic, crashing chords tear the roof off with tracks like “In This Together” and the gripping “Cambodia.”

Asobi Seksu, Hush (12)

Asobi Seksu return with more immaculate, Lush-esque twee dreampop.

Autechre, Amber (11)
-, Incunabula (11)

Before they got self-consciously experimental to the point of becoming ‘difficult’ music, Autechre put out some wonderfully melodic IDM in Incunabula and Amber, which would be followed shortly after by Tri Repetae.

Scooter, Jumping All Over the World (24)

It’s Scooter. Jumping All Over the Place is pretty much self-descriptive.



See Also

Apples in Stereo, The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone (12)
-, Let’s Go! (5)
-, Velocity of Sound (11)
-, Her Wallpaper Reverie (15)
-, Tone Soul Evolution (14)
-, Look Away (5)
-, Science Faire (13)

A Camp, Stronger Than Jesus (1)

Ace of Base, Wheel of Fortune 2009 (2)

And One, Frontfeuer (5)

Apoptygma Berzerk, Welcome to Earth (13)
-, 7 (10)
-, Apocalyptic Manifesto (12)

A Shoreline Dream, Recollections of Memory (10)

Beirut, March of the Zapotec & Realpeople: Holland (11)

Belle and Sebastian, The BBC Sessions (14)

Gavin Bryars, Amjad (17)

Claire Voyant, Time and the Maiden (13)
-, Time Again (13)
-, Love Is Blind (10)

Clannad, An Diolaim (14)

Download, Charlie’s Family (9)

Faith & The Muse, Annwyn Beneath the Waves (14)
-, Elyria (14)
-, The Burning Season (12)

Faunts, Feel.Love.Thinking.Of (10)

Front 242, Pulse (12)
-, Still & Raw (6)
-, Headhunter 2000 (9+8)
-, Re-Boot Live ‘98 (12)

Grizzly Bear, Yellow House (10)
-, Friend EP (10)

Gus Gus, Need in Me (4)

Jean Michel Jarre, Oxygene (6)
-, Equinoxe (8)
-, Les Chants Magnetiques (5)

Cevin Key, Music for Cats (13)

Kill Hannah, Hope for the Hopeless (10)

Ladytron, 604 Remixes (13)

LCD Soundsystem, 45:33 (2)

LFO, Frequencies (14)

Love is Colder Than Death, Mental Traveller (12)

Timo Maas, Subtellite (1)

Nightmare Lodge, Blind Miniatures (8)
-, Tentacled (10)

Nightmares on Wax, A Word of Science (15)

Old 97’s, Hitchhike to Rhome (13)

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (10)

Plateau, Spacecake (16)

Polygon Windows, Surfing on Sine Waves (11)

Praga Khan, Not Strictly Rubens (10)

Ratatat, Mirando (2)

Rhea’s Obsession, Between Earth and Sky (11)
-, Re:Initiation (14)

Robert Rich, React (11)

Gabrielle Roth, Jhoom (5)

Sabres of Paradise, Sabresonic (8)

School of Seven Bells, Iamundernodisguise (2)

Scooter, Jump That Rock (4)

Tindersticks, The Hungry Saw (12)

M. Ward, Hold Time (14)

Wendy & Lisa, White Flags of Winter Chimneys (9)
-, Girl Bros. (13)

soundtrack, The Count of Monte Cristo – musical (13)
-, Coraline (12)

various, Artificial Intelligence (10)
-, Bytes (11)
-, The Evolution of the Groove (9)

Free

Giant Brain, Thorn of Thrones (1)

Melissa Giges, Evident (1)

The Rosebuds, Sweet Beats Troubled Dreams (10)

various, An Introduction to Truth & Soul (12)
-, eMusic Sampler Vol 2 (13)
-, The Wages of Syntax (18)

Spoken Word

Anais Nin, Delta of Venus (4)

Basil Rathbone, Sherlock Holmes – The Unfortunate Tobacconist/The Paradol Chamber (2)