Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: The Album Leaf’s “Between Waves”

In the time that’s elapsed since its last proper album, 2010’s A Chorus Of Storytellers, Jimmy LaValle’s the Album Leaf

August 29, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

I’ve spent a lot of time over the years slogging my way through supposedly “difficult” (inherent subtext: “but good for

August 28, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Electronic music often depends on layers of synthesizers and pounding club beats to deliver its message. Alex Cameron and his

August 28, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

These three reissues document the venerable Nick Saloman clarifying the vision of his British psych-rock project the Bevis Frond. Nearly

August 27, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

For the past seven years, Dungen guitarist Reine Fiske has side-projected his frontman aspirations into the Amazing, his gorgeously atmospheric,

August 27, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Freetown Sound is so sharply perforating in its look at being black and queer in 2016 that it nearly erases

August 25, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

To those for whom the Avalanches’ Since I Left You is the last will and testament of a bygone world—one

August 23, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

It’s not as easy to pack as much action into 13 minutes as Lifted Bells makes it seem. With Overreactor,

August 18, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania