Release date
| Artist
| Album
| Genre
| Label
| Producer
| Notes
| Ref.
|
February 3
| Young Guns
| Bones
| Alternative rock, Post-Hardcore
| Live Forever
| Dan Weller
| Second studio album
| [29]
|
February 6
| Air
| Le Voyage Dans La Lune
| Electronic, ambient
| Virgin
| Air
| Seventh studio album
| [30]
|
Mark Lanegan
| Blues Funeral
| Alternative rock, blues
| 4AD
| Alain Johannes
| Seventh studio album
| [31]
|
Goldfrapp
| The Singles
| Electropop, synthpop, electroclash, trip hop, ambient, glam rock
| Mute, Parlophone
| Alison Goldfrapp, Will Gregory, Nick Batt, Flood, Pascal Gabriel, Jeremy Wheatley
| Compilation album
| [32]
|
Paul McCartney
| Kisses on the Bottom
| Jazz, traditional pop
| Hear Music
| Tommy LiPuma
| Fifteenth studio album
| [33]
|
James Levy and the Blood Red Rose
| Pray to Be Free
| Indie Rock
| Heavenly
| | First studio album
| [34]
|
February 7
| Various artists
| Now That's What I Call Music! 41
| Pop
| EMI
| | 41st edition of Now!
| [35]
|
Of Montreal
| Paralytic Stalks
| Psychedelic pop, progressive rock, experimental rock
| Polyvinyl
| Kevin Barnes
| Eleventh studio album
| [36]
|
The Fray
| Scars & Stories
| Alternative rock, pop rock, piano rock
| Epic
| Brendan O'Brien
| Third studio album
| [37]
|
Silverstein
| Short Songs
| Post-hardcore, hardcore punk
| Hopeless
| Jordan Valeriote
| Sixth studio album
| [38]
|
Van Halen
| A Different Kind of Truth
| Hard rock, heavy metal
| Interscope
| Van Halen, John Shanks
| Twelfth studio album
| [39]
|
Sharon Van Etten
| Tramp
| Indie rock, folk
| Jagjaguwar
| Sharon Van Etten, Aaron Dessner
| Third studio album
| |
February 10
| Deichkind
| Befehl von ganz unten
| | | | Fifth studio album
| [40]
|
Eluveitie
| Helvetios
| Folk metal, melodic death metal
| Nuclear Blast
| | Fifth studio album
| |
February 13
| Emeli Sandé
| Our Version of Events
| R&B, soul
| Virgin
| Naughty Boy, Mojam, Craze & Hoax, Mike Spencer, Emile Hayne, Paul Herman, Ash Millard, Alicia Keys, Stephen Manderson
| Debut studio album
| [41]
|
The Jane Bradfords
| 100 Miles of Broken Pavement
| | | | Second studio album
| [42]
|
February 14
| Moonwalk
| Paradise
| | | | Second studio album
| [43]
|
Beneath the Massacre
| Incongruous
| | | | Third studio album
| |
Jon B.
| Comfortable Swagg
| Contemporary R&B
| Vibezelect Inc
| Jon B, Adonis Shropshire
| Seventh studio album
| [44][45]
|
Prima Donna
| Bless This Mess
| | | | Second studio album
| [46]
|
Sleigh Bells
| Reign of Terror
| | | | Second studio album
| [47]
|
Goatwhore
| Blood for the Master
| | | | Fifth studio album
| [48]
|
Edyta Górniak
| My
| R&B, Pop
| Anaconda Productions
| Bogdan Kondracki, Beatroots (Piotr Skotnicki, Piotr Remiszewski)
| Sixth studio album
| [49]
|
February 15
| Burial
| Kindred
| Dubstep, 2-step garage
| Hyperdub
| Burial
| EP
| [50]
|
February 18
| ProCity Claim
| The Fifth
| | | | Fifth album release by Alex Gilbert's NZ music project 'ProCity Claim'.
| [51][52]
|
February 21
| Apparatjik
| Square Peg in a Round Hole
| Experimental, Alternative, Electronic rock
| Meta Merge Un
| Apparatjik
| Second studio album; first widely produced studio album, co-produced and mixed by fans. A pre-release campaign features 10 versions of the album, featuring fan remixes and re-arrangements of new songs released each week until final release. First, limited issue of the album.
| [53][54]
|
Buckethead
| Electric Sea
| Acoustic, Ambient, Classical, Experimental, Rock, Flamenco
| Metastation
| Buckethead, Janet Rienstra-Friesea
| Thirty-fifth studio album
| [55]
|
fun.
| Some Nights
| Indie pop, alternative rock, power pop
| Fueled by Ramen
| Jeff Bhasker
| Second studio album
| [56]
|
Earth
| Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light II
| Experimental rock, post-rock
| Southern Lord Records
| Stuart Hallerman, Dylan Carlson and Adrienne Davies
| Seventh studio album
| |
The Menzingers
| On The Impossible Past
| | | | Third studio album
| [57]
|
Lambchop
| Mr. M
| Rock
| Merge Records
| | Eleventh studio album
| [58]
|
February 24
| Ferry Corsten
| WKND
| | | | Seventh studio album
| [59][60]
|
Pink Floyd
| The Wall
| Progressive rock
| Harvest Records, EMI Records (UK), Columbia Records (US)
| Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour, James Guthrie and Roger Waters
| Experience Edition, Immersion Edition and Vinyl Edition Re-release. The third and final major re-release of Pink Floyd albums which included The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here. Released as part of EMI and Roger Waters' Why Pink Floyd...? Re-release campaign.
| [61][62][63]
|
February 27
| The Cranberries
| Roses
| Alternative rock
| Cooking Vinyl (Worldwide), Downtown Records (USA), Shock Records (Australia), Gold Lake Records (Canada), Hostess Entertainment (Japan), Soyuz Music (Russia), Vertigo Berlin (Germany), Universal Records (Philippines)
| Stephen Street
| | [64]
|
Primal Rock Rebellion
| Awoken Broken
| Heavy metal, progressive metal, alternative metal
| Spinefarm Records
| Adrian Smith, Mikee Goodman
| Debut studio album
| [65]
|
February 28
| Chiddy Bang
| Breakfast
| Indie hip hop, hipster hop, rap rock, pop rap, indietronica, hip hop soul
| Virgin, I.R.S., Regal
| Xaphoon Jones, Yuri Beats, iSHi
| Debut studio album
| [66]
|
Corrosion of Conformity
| Corrosion of Conformity
| | Candlelight
| Corrosion of Conformity, John Custer
| Eighth studio album
| [67]
|
Memoryhouse
| The Slideshow Effect
| | | | | [68]
|
Plants and Animals
| The End of That
| Indie rock
| Secret City Records
| | | [69]
|
Sent By Ravens
| Mean What You Say
| Alternative metal, Christian rock, hard rock, post hardcore
| Tooth & Nail
| Rob Hawkins
| Second studio album
| [70]
|
Veil of Maya
| Eclipse
| | | | Fourth studio album
| |
The Wooden Sky
| Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon a Sun
| | | | | [71]
|
Desaster
| The Arts Of Destruction
| | | | | [72]
|
Shearwater
| Animal Joy
| | | | Seventh studio album
| |
Dirty Three
| Toward the Low Sun
| | | | Ninth studio album
| |