The Best Vinyl Releases Of February 2022

Anybody who thought the vinyl resurgence was just a fad was mistaken: The industry has experienced a legitimate revival. As a result, music fans are interested in physical media in ways they may not have if the decades-old medium hasn’t made a comeback. That doesn’t mean everybody is listening to just their parents’ old music, though. That’s part of it, sure, thanks to rereleases that present classic albums in new ways. A vital part of the renewed vinyl wave, though, is new projects being released as records, of which there are plenty.

Whatever you might be into, each month brings a new slew of vinyl releases that has something for everybody. Some stand out above the rest, naturally, so check out some of our favorite vinyl releases of February below.

Beach House — Once Twice Melody

Once Twice Melody is Beach House’s first album since 2018’s 7, and now the expansive project has gotten an expansive vinyl box set edition; check it out in the unboxing video above. In her review of the album, Uproxx’s Caitlin White notes, “Once Twice Melody might expand their palette a bit, but it’s no experimental reach or brand new direction. Why mess with perfection? Their gauzy soundscapes are vague enough to sustain quite a bit of emotional projection, but there’s depth of meaning lurking within the songs that few other bands yield.”

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Tkay Maidza — Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2 & Vol. 3

Tkai Maidza Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2 & Vol. 3 vinyl
Vinyl Me, Please

The Last Year Was Weird trilogy came to an end with the final two volumes, which are now available in a gorgeous gold pressing, exclusive to Vinyl Me, Please. Maidza recently told Uproxx of naming the series, “The term ‘weird’ is the way I described the plunge of going into the deep end and knowing that where I was. What I wanted was like a big leap forward, but I would have to start from nothing again. I was at that lowest point every day: ‘What the hell is going on?’ But in a way, I always had a feeling that it would work out because this was the only way it could be.”

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Paul McCartney And Wings — Wild Life (50th Anniversary Limited Edition)

Paul McCartney Wings Wild Life
UMe

Last December was the 50th anniversary of the debut album from Paul McCartney’s Wings, a major project in the immediate aftermath of The Beatles’ dissolution. To mark the occasion, the album gets a fresh reissue, with this edition having been mastered at half speed for supreme audio quality.

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Yusuf/Cat Stevens — Harold And Maude (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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A&M/Cat-O-Log/UMe

Harold And Maude has become one of the defining films of its era, and Yusuf/Cat Stevens played a part in that with his soundtrack. That first came out 50 years ago, and now this vinyl reissue of it combines Stevens’ songs with dialogue from the film for the first time.

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Pixies — Live In Brixton

The Pixies Life In Brixton
Pixies

In June 2004, Pixies took to London’s Brixton Academy for four sold-out shows that marked their UK reunion, and now those shows are preserved in a new box set. This eight-LP release marks the first time these recordings are officially available, and on top of that, they’ve also been freshly remastered.

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Sturgill Simpson — The Ballad Of Dood And Juanita

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High Top Mountain Records

Sturgill Simpson has been in a productive stretch that most recently featured the 2021 album The Ballad Of Dood And Juanita. Now, it’s finally available on vinyl, and since this may be the final Sturgill Simpson album, this one’s worth grabbing.

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Chief Keef — Finally Rich (Vinyl Me, Please Reissue)

Chief Keep Finally Rich VMP
Vinyl Me, Please

Keef’s debut album was a big moment in hip-hop in that it helped popularize drill music. Vinyl Me, Please has now honored the album by making it one of their rerelease picks for March, which marks the first time the record has ever been made available on vinyl.

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Modest Mouse — The Lonesome Crowded West (Vinyl Me, Please Reissue)

Modest Mouse Lonesome Crowded West VMP
Vinyl Me, Please

Modest Mouse is going on tour this year, but if you’re unable to catch one of those shows but still want to throw a few bucks at a cool Modest Mouse experience, Vinyl Me, Please has a fresh reissue of one of their iconic albums, The Lonesome Crowded West. This version comes pressed on “Bottom Of The Sky”-colored vinyl and is accompanied by fresh listening notes.

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Sasami — Squeeze

Sasami Squeeze
Domino

Sasami got a Haim co-sign as she’s heading out on tour with the sister trio, and indeed, her new album is worth checking out. It’s a diverse effort that touches on everything from nu-metal to folk to classical, and now it’s available on a gorgeous translucent red vinyl pressing.

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Various Artists — Ocean Child: Songs Of Yoko Ono

Ocean Child Songs Of Yoko Ono
Canvasback Music/Atlantic Records

Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard curated a collection of Yoko Ono covers for the new Ocean Child project, and now the endeavor is available to grab on vinyl. It’s a strong get if you want to add some variety to your vinyl library, as the collection features recordings by Death Cab, Japanese Breakfast, Sharon Van Etten, David Byrne, and a heaping handful of others.

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Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

All The New Albums Coming Out In February 2022

Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in February. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.

Friday, February 4

  • 2 Chainz — Dope Don’t Sell Itself (Def Jam)
  • A Place To Bury Strangers — See Through You (Dedstrange)
  • Adekunle Gold — Catch Me If You Can (Afro Urban Records)
  • Alai K — Kila Mara (On The Corner Records)
  • Animal Collective — Time Skiffs (Domino)
  • As It Is — I Went To Hell And Back (Fearless Records)
  • Azar Lawrence — New Sky (Trazar Records)
  • B.J. Thomas — In Remembrance: Love Songs & Lost Treasures (Real Gone Music)
  • Bastille — Give Me The Future (Virgin Records)
  • Black Country, New Road — Ants From Up There (Ninja Tune)
  • Carlie Hanson — Tough Boy (Warner Records)
  • Cate Le Bon — Pompeii (Mexican Summer)
  • The Districts — Great American Painting (Fat Possum)
  • Dylan Dunlap — Stranger In My Head EP (Nettwerk)
  • Eric Krasno — Always (Provogue)
  • Erin Rae — Lighten Up (Good Memory/Thirty Tigers)
  • Gracie Gray — anna (Hand In Hive)
  • Great Lakes — Contenders (HHBTM Records)
  • Hembree — It’s A Dream! (Thirty Tigers)
  • The High Water Marks — Proclaimer Of Things (Minty Fresh)
  • Hippo Campus — LP3 (Grand Jury)
  • Hollis Brown — In The Aftermath (Mascot Label Group/Cool Green Recordings)
  • Jolly Joker — Loud & Proud (Dark Rails Records)
  • Josienne Clarke — I Promised You Light EP (Corduroy Punk Records)
  • Korn — Requiem (Loma Vista)
  • Kristine Leschper — The Opening, Or Closing Of A Door (Anti)
  • Mac Gollehon — The End Is The Beginning EP (Nefarious Industries)
  • Marissa Nadler — The Wrath Of The Clouds EP (Sacred Bones/Bella Union)
  • Mason Jennings — Real Heart (Loosegroove Records)
  • Mikayla McVey — Time Turns Everything (The Long Road Society)
  • Mitski — Laurel Hell (Dead Oceans)
  • Nate Scheible — Fairfax (ACR)
  • Native Sun — Joy Theft EP (Radio Silence)
  • The Reds, Pinks & Purples — Summer At Land’s End (Slumberland)
  • Saba — Few Good Things (Pivot Gang)
  • Sam Weber — Get Free (Sonic Unyon Records)
  • The Slow Show — Still Life (Velveteen Records)
  • Sweat — Gotta Give It Up (Pirates Press Records)
  • Wild Rivers — Sidelines (Nettwerk)
  • WizTheMC — Where Silence Feels Good EP (10k Projects/Homemade Projects)
  • yeule — Glitch Princess (Bayonet Records)

Friday, February 11

  • Adam Miller — Gateway (Inner Magic)
  • alt-J — The Dream (Canvasback Music)
  • Amos Lee — Dreamland (Dualtone Records)
  • Anika — Change: The Remixes (Sacred Bones Records)
  • Big Thief — Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (4AD)
  • The Cactus Blossoms — One Day (Walkie Talkie Records)
  • Dan Andriano & The Bygones — Dear Darkness (Epitaph)
  • Dead Tree Seeds — Back To The Seeds EP (Music Records)
  • The Delines — The Sea Drift (Jealous Butcher Records)
  • Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio — Cold As Weiss (Colemine Records)
  • Donna Missal — in The mirror, In The night EP (Harvest Records)
  • Dream Fiend — Outland (Heavy Machinery Records)
  • Eddie Vedder — Earthling (Sony)
  • Emilie Zoé — Hello Future Me (Hummus Records)
  • Ethan Iverson — Every Note Is True (Blue Note)
  • Foxes — The Kick (PIAS Recordings)
  • Frank Turner — FTHC (Polydor)
  • Holo — In Limbo EP (Anjunadeep)
  • Home Counties — In A Middle English Town EP (Alcopop! Records)
  • Jason Mraz — Lalalalovesongs (ACG/Atlantic)
  • Jazmine Sullivan — Heaux Tales, Mo’ Tales: The Deluxe (RCA Records)
  • Joywave — Cleanse (Blood Records)
  • Jura — Formality Jerne-Site (Anyines)
  • Kenny Muney — Time Is Muney (Paper Route Empire)
  • La Armada — Anti-Colonial Vol. 2 (Mal De Ojo Records)
  • Lotte Kestner — Lost Songs (Saint-Loup Records)
  • Lynda Randle — Pilgrim Journey (Spring House)
  • Mary J. Blige — Good Morning Gorgeous (WEA)
  • Massive Ego — The New Normal EP (Out Of Line)
  • Mild Orange — Looking For Space (AWAL)
  • Night Palace — Diving Rings (Park The Van)
  • Night Shop — Forever Night (Dangerbird)
  • Once Human — Scar Weaver (earMUSIC)
  • Raveena — Asha’s Awakening (Warner)
  • Rob Burger — Marching with Feathers (Western Vinyl)
  • Sea Change — Mutual Dreaming (Shapes Recordings)
  • Sea Power — Everything Was Forever (Golden Chariot Records)
  • Shamir — Heterosexuality (self-released)
  • Slash Ft. Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators — 4 (Gibson Records)
  • Sofiane Pamart — Letter (Pias America)
  • Spoon — Lucifer On The Sofa (Matador Records)
  • Studio Electrophonique — Happier Things EP (Violette Records)
  • Weatherstate — Never Better (Rude Records)
  • William Ryan Key — Everything Except Desire EP (Equal Vision/Rude Records)

Friday, February 18

  • A Will Away — Stew (Rude Records)
  • Anna Laura Quinn — Open The Door (Next Level)
  • Arjen Anthony Lucassen — Revel In Time (InsideOutMusic)
  • Beach House — Once Twice Melody (Sub Pop)
  • Bob Stroger And The Headcutters — That’s My Name (Delmark Records)
  • The Body And OAA — Enemy Of Love (Thrill Jockey)
  • Broods — Space Island (Universal)
  • Carlie Hanson — Tough Boy (Warner Records)
  • Dawnrider — The Fourth Dawn (Alma Mater Records)
  • Debit — The Long Count (Modern Love)
  • Elephant Stone — Le voyage de M. Lonely dans la lune (Elephants On Parade)
  • Ellah A. Thaun — Arcane Majeur Deux (XVIII records)
  • Hurray For The Riff Raff — Life On Earth (Nonesuch Records)
  • The Infamous Stringdusters — Toward The Fray (Regime Music)
  • Jarguna — Neogene (Projekt)
  • Jonas Lindberg And The Other Side — Miles From Nowhere (Inside Out Music)
  • JP Cooper — She (Island Records)
  • Katie Tupper — Towards The End EP (Arts & Crafts)
  • Kendra Morris — Nine Lives (Karma Chief Records)
  • Khruangbin & Leon Bridges — Texas Moon EP (Dead Oceans)
  • Lavender Country — Blackberry Rose (Don Giovanni Records)
  • MAITA — I Just Want To Be Wild For You (Kill Rock Stars)
  • Manic Sinners — King Of The Badlands (Frontiers)
  • Methyl Ethel — Are You Haunted? (Future Classic)
  • Metronomy — Small World (Because Music)
  • Michael Lane — Take It Slow (Greywood Records)
  • Oliver Future — A Year At Home (Peak Dumb Recordings)
  • Oliver Tree — Cowboy Tears (Atlantic R&S)
  • Sally Shapiro — Sad Cities (Italians Do It Better)
  • Shout Out Louds — House (Bud Fox Recordings/Integral)
  • Star One — Revel In Time (InsideOutMusic)
  • Steve Poltz — Stardust & Satellites (Compass Records)
  • The Thing With Feathers — Sundays In The South EP (Fat Pipe Recordings/Kartel Music Group)
  • Uèle Lamore — Loom (XXIM Records/Sony)
  • Various Artists — Ocean Child: Songs Of Yoko Ono (Atlantic Records)
  • White Lies — As I Try Not To Fall Apart (Pias America)
  • Wynona Bleach — Moonsoake (Fierce Panda Records)
  • Youth Sector — Adult Contemporary EP (Family Values)

Friday, February 25

  • Avril Lavigne — Love Sux (DTA Records)
  • Bambara — Love On My Mind (Wharf Cat)
  • Basia Bulat — The Garden (Secret City Records)
  • Beth Hart — A Tribute To Led Zeppelin (Provogue/Mascot Label Group)
  • Binker & Moses — Feeding The Machine (Gearbox)
  • Blue Lab Beats — Motherland Journey (Blue Note)
  • Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard — Backhand Deals (Communion)
  • Carmen Villain — Only Love From Now On (Smalltown Supersound)
  • Caroline Loveglow — Strawberry (100% Electronica)
  • Carson McHone — Still Life (Merge)
  • CMAT — If My Wife New I’d Be Dead (AWAL Recordings)
  • Coyle Girelli — Funland (Honey Lemon Records)
  • Dan Patlansky — Shelter Of Bones (Virgin)
  • Dashboard Confessional — All The Truth That I Can Tell (Hidden Note Records)
  • Daytime TV — Nothing’s On But Everybody’s Watching (Allotment)
  • Deserta — Every Moment, Everything You Need (Felte)
  • DJ Hank — The City Stars EP (Hyperdub Records)
  • Early Eyes — Look Alive (Epitaph Records)
  • Filligar — Future Self (Decade Records)
  • Gang Of Youths — Angel In Realtime (Warner Records)
  • Graphic Nature — New Skin EP (Rude Records)
  • Huerco S. — Plonk (Incienso)
  • Jamie McDell — Jamie McDell (ABC Music)
  • Johnny Marr — Fever Dreams Pts 1-4 (BMG)
  • Judy Collins — Spellbound (Cleopatra)
  • Keeley Forsyth — Limbs (The Leaf Label)
  • King Hannah — I’m Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me (City Slang)
  • Kyle Morgan — Younger At Most Everything (Team Love Records)
  • Lo Moon — A Modern Life (Strngr Recordings/Thirty Tigers)
  • Nick D’Virgilio, Neal Morse & Ross Jennings — Troika (Radiant Records)
  • OSKA — My World, My Love, Paris (Nettwerk)
  • Pierce Turner — Terrible Good (Storysound Records)
  • Pintandwefall — Seventh Baby (GAEA)
  • Pixies — Live In Brixton (Demon)
  • Richard Clayderman — Forever Love (WEA)
  • Robert Glasper — Black Radio III (Loma Vista)
  • Sasami — Squeeze (Domino)
  • Sevdaliza — Raving Dahlia EP (Twisted Elegance)
  • Scorpions — Rock Believer (Vertigo Berlin)
  • Shiva Burlesque — Mercury Blues (+Skulduggery) (Darla Records)
  • Soft Cell — *Happiness Not Included (BMG)
  • Spencer Hoffman — A Flower From Behind EP (Park the Van Records)
  • Spiritualized — Everything Was Beautiful (Bella Union)
  • String Machine — Hallelujah Hell Yeah (Know Hope Records)
  • Superchunk — Wild Loneliness (Merge)
  • Swamp Dogg — I Need A Job… So I Can Buy More Autotune (Don Giovanni)
  • Tangerine Dream — Raum (Kscope/Eastgate Music)
  • Tears For Fears — The Tipping Point (Concord)
  • Under The Rug — Dear Adeline (Anabl)
  • Various Artists — Euphoria Season 2 (An HBO Original Series Soundtrack) (Interscope)
  • VHS Collection — Night Drive (Tiger Tone)
  • Your Planet Is Next — Mr. Music (Studio Barnhus)

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.