Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC
![Essential New Music: James Brandon Lewis/Red Lily Quintet's "For Mahalia, With Love"](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Essential New Music: James Brandon Lewis/Red Lily Quintet’s “For Mahalia, With Love”
For Mahalia, With Love is a record that gets down to fundamentals, but not just in the way that its
![Essential New Music: P.G. Six's "Murmurs & Whispers"](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Essential New Music: P.G. Six’s “Murmurs & Whispers”
Pat Gubler is the kind of guy who can intuit fellow musicians’ ideals and help them sound like better versions
![Essential New Music: Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense"](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Essential New Music: Talking Heads’ “Stop Making Sense”
The movie Stop Making Sense constitutes an undeniable high for Talking Heads. The Jonathan Demme-directed documentary of the band’s 1983
![Essential New Music: Naujawanan Baidar's "Khedmat Be Khalq"](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Essential New Music: Naujawanan Baidar’s “Khedmat Be Khalq”
Naujawanan Baidar grew from heavy psych combo Myrrors, but don’t call it a side project. Rather, consider it to be
![Essential New Music: L. Eugene Methe's "Maybe, Tomorrow"](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Essential New Music: L. Eugene Methe’s “Maybe, Tomorrow”
L. Eugene Methe’s work to date has been all over the map. The Nebraska-based musician has recorded one LP of
![Essential New Music: The Rempis Percussion Quartet's "Harvesters"](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Essential New Music: The Rempis Percussion Quartet’s “Harvesters”
Dave Rempis has been an essential figure on Chicago’s improvised music scene for more than a quarter century. But while
![Essential New Music: Guided By Voices' "Welshpool Frillies"](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Essential New Music: Guided By Voices’ “Welshpool Frillies”
After penning a review of 2018’s Space Gun—and compiling a well-received (sarcasm) ranking of Guided By Voices’ 25 LPs up
![Essential New Music: Attempt Survivors' "Negative Nite"](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Essential New Music: Attempt Survivors’ “Negative Nite”
“Extinction is the rule,” Carl Sagan once wrote. “Survival is the exception.” Most of the time, that seems like a
![Essential New Music: Mike Cooper's "Life & Death In Paradise + Milan Acoustic Live 2018"](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Essential New Music: Mike Cooper’s “Life & Death In Paradise + Milan Acoustic Live 2018”
The moment when it seems like you have nothing to lose can be a good time to strike a deal.
![Essential New Music: Jim O’Rourke's "Hands That Bind (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)"](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Essential New Music: Jim O’Rourke’s “Hands That Bind (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)”
Jim O’Rourke’s passion for film has informed his music from the start. Cinematic notions of pacing and structure influence his
![Essential New Music: Nicolas Leirtrø/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Ståle Storløkken's "Heaven Hill Fragmentarium"](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Essential New Music: Nicolas Leirtrø/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Ståle Storløkken’s “Heaven Hill Fragmentarium”
There’s a story that when Jack Nicholson and Michael Keaton were on set making Batman, the former advised the latter
![Essential New Music: Black Duck's "Black Duck"](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Essential New Music: Black Duck’s “Black Duck”
If Rhys Chatham hadn’t already done something with the name, Black Duck really should have been named Guitar Trio. Some
![Essential New Music: Swans' "The Beggar"](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Essential New Music: Swans’ “The Beggar”
Inside the first minute of “The Parasite,” which kicks of the digital and CD (but not LP) editions of The
![Essential New Music: Danny Paul Grody's "Arc Of Day"](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Essential New Music: Danny Paul Grody’s “Arc Of Day”
Arc Of Day cues you right away: This is music that deals with the passage of time. Time, of course,