Inhumain #1

From Bajram, Mangin, and Rochebrune comes this striking Aire Libre album whose cover immediately signals something ambitious and strange. A flower-crowned young woman stands luminous on a sun-bleached beach, facing down — or perhaps welcoming — a vast crowd of gaunt, spear-bearing tribal figures stretching back to the ocean waves, while in the foreground a suited figure marked "02" kneels half-submerged in the surf, its legs replaced by writhing tentacles. The collision of the technological, the primitive, and the otherworldly makes Inhumain one of the most visually arresting releases of 2020.