Category: BEST OF 2016
MAGNET’s #5 Album Of 2016: GOAT’s “Requiem”
GOAT has been trying to convince us that the tiny hamlet from which it hails is home to an ages-old
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MAGNET’s #6 Album Of 2016: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ “Skeleton Tree”
It’s impossible to tell how the death of Nick Cave’s son, Arthur, during the recording of Skeleton Tree shaped its
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MAGNET’s #7 Album Of 2016: Car Seat Headrest’s “Teens Of Denial”
We don’t need another new Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate notwithstanding. But we sure can welcome a new Bob Pollard. Although
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MAGNET’s #8 Album Of 2016: Lucinda Williams’ “The Ghosts Of Highway 20”
Lucinda Williams has been making music for nearly four decades. The Ghosts Of Highway 20, her 12th studio album, is
MAGNET’s #9 Album Of 2016: Beach Slang’s “A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings”
“Play it loud/Play it fast/Play me something that will always last,” growls lead singer James Alex on “Future Mixtape For
MAGNET’s #10 Album Of 2016: Dinosaur Jr’s “Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not”
Consider, if you will, two bands from Massachusetts that formed in the mid-’80s, broke up for more than a decade,
MAGNET’s #11 Album Of 2016: Drive-By Truckers’ “American Band”
It’s been an annus horribilis of Nasty Women and Bad Hombres, aggressive groping and building a wall and making them
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R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania
MAGNET’s #12 Album Of 2016: Mitski’s “Puberty 2”
For Mitski Miyawaki, happiness is neither a self-evident truth nor an unalienable right, instead a boorish lout who eats her
