Every week, the WECB France team offers you its selection of the best albums to listen to – Week of February 2, 2026.
In the age of streaming, it has never been easier to listen to new music, but with thousands of new titles added every day to streaming platforms not counting physical releases in stores, we can get lost. WECB offers you a selection of albums released today.
This week, we have selected albums from The Stripp, Puscifer, Jay Buchanan, Axel Bauer, Joe Bonamassa, Les Wampas, Mansion's Cellar, Flora Hibberd, Ulrika Spacek And Louis Arlette.
The Stripp – Life Imitates Art
The Australian rock 'n' roll group The Stripp delivers a direct and effective record, with cheeky vocals of the most beautiful effect. On the program: full-throttle compositions and a rock sound nourished by opulent riffs. Thus, attempts to resist it are futile…
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Puscifer – Normal Isn't
The trio led by Maynard James Keenan (Tool, A Perfect Circle) questions the concept of normality in a strange new album, which modernizes its old school influences by bringing its characteristic strangeness.
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Jay Buchanan – Weapons of Beauty
With Weapons of Beauty, Jay Buchanan, at the microphone in Rival Sons, ventures solo for the first time and plays the intimate card. Discover a new facet of the artist through ten beautiful compositions.
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Axel Bauer – Big 8
Axel Bauer continues what he started with his 2022 album with Grand 8, a record that is at once organic, raw and elegant. To discover now.
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Joe Bonamassa – BB King's Blues Summit 100
The prolific bluesman surrounds himself with 30 legendary guests to pay a titanic tribute to the great BB King. There we find pell-mell Larkin Poe, Marcus King, Eric Gales, Gary Clark Jr. and many others.
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The Wampas – Where Are We Going?
15 albums and more than 40 years of career for King Didier Wampas, who continues to chart his course with this friendly Ou va nous?, which brings together his characteristic timbre and his endearing sense of humor.
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Mansion's Cellar – SH*TSHOW
We would also happily get lost when laying out the more or less clear influences of this descent into the cellar: King Gizzard here, Fontaines DC across the Channel there, the Middle East and the Balkans for good measure, and all this without necessarily having covered the issue.
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Ulrika Spacek – EXPO
Throughout this fourth album, Ulrika Spacek pushes her art of sound collage even further, at the crossroads of psych-rock and electronic textures. The album plays on confusion: real and digital drums are duplicated, the sounds are reflected as in a hall of mirrors, the guitars sound unreal.
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Louis Arlette – Mēkhanē
Louis Arlette is now behind the machines, making the synthetic curls rumble. After MAESTÀ (2025), here is a new chapter still 100% instrumental; sort of soundtrack to a cyberpunk film. Very pictorial and scholarly, at the risk of losing us a little more.
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Flora Hibberd – Swirl
There is, in this warm, almost chanted voice of the British singer (based in Paris) Flora Hibberd, something hypnotic. Accompanied by producer Shane Leonard, last year she released the beautiful Swirl, a record mixing folk and indie-rock with class.
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