Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC
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Essential New Music: Jack & Amanda Palmer’s “You Got Me Singing”
The album art of this record is a “cover version” of Dylan’s Bringing It All Back Home with Amanda Palmer’s
Essential New Music: Grifters’ “One Sock Missing” And “Crappin’ You Negative”
Forget everything you’ve read about the Grifters, as most of it is the inaccurate and lazy comparative nonsense that can
Essential New Music: Nels Cline’s “Lovers”
This is a weird record for a guy known for his adventurous, avant-garde experimentalism. Nels Cline—Wilco guitarist, mastermind of the
Essential New Music: Moon Bros.’ “These Stars”
Despite the presence of four musicians on this record and the plural moniker, Moon Bros. is really one man. Guitarist
Essential New Music: Lydia Loveless’ “Real”
Lydia Loveless sings “Clumps,” her album’s quietist tune, alone with her acoustic guitar, but when she wails out the opening
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Essential New Music: Field Mouse’s “Episodic”
Its name may have twee-pop connotations, and its 2014 debut got called shoegaze a lot (a tag that fit loosely
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Essential New Music: Factory Floor’s “25 25”
This London outfit’s 2013 debut LP delineated a stark, seductive vision of post-industrial punk/funk techno—offsetting brutally minimalist loop marathons with
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Essential New Music: The Dead C’s “Trouble”
The Dead C has maintained the same personnel—Bruce Russell, Michael Morley and Robbie Yeats playing guitars, drums, synths—and maintained the
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R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania
