Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Woods’ “City Sun Eater In The River Of Light”

On their last album, With Light And With Love, Woods struck the perfect balance of swirling psychedelia and hook-filled melodies.

M83’s Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming was a glorious exploration of high-gloss dream-pop and cathartic synth-pop. The 2011 album was the

With bands, as with significant others, it’s nice to know you’re on the same page about the L-word. Mish Way

Ben Watt has had an expansive and varied career—with spouse Tracey Thorn in Everything But The Girl, as a club-music

Emo isn’t all tragedy. While the Hotelier’s 2014 record Home, Like NoPlace Is There was a taut, cathartic work of

Can we get back to you about this one in, say, four or five months? It’s just that we’ve been listening

Marcus Gordon, songwriter and singer for Australia’s Spookyland, has a voice that blends Mick Jagger’s early-’70s before-the-beat sneer with Tymon

There are echoes of Rachael Sage’s theatrical and emotive baroque pop/rock in the likes of Ingrid Michaelson and Sara Bareilles,

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania