The Drift: the month’s best in weird and experimental music
Our first look at the world’s best new weird releases from the month of February
2026 is finally getting up on its feet. War, instability, power, corruption, lies'; who’d have thunk it? There are weeks where decades happen, and February had four of ‘em.
Personally, though, my month has been business as usual. I have been diving deeper into the films of Francis Truffaut, and the music of Ukraine’s Novaya scena – a brilliant scene from the nineties, where all the jazz heads went nuts and started making pop music that sounded completely wrong.
This year’s new releases, too, have started to really pick up, and for this month’s column we have a smorgasbord of weird folk, tilted post-punk and an album of covers of Autechre for the acoustic guitar. Here is our guide to the best new, weird music from the month that was February 2026.
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