Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC
Essential New Music: Flock Of Dimes’ “If You See Me, Say Yes”
If Dungeonesse offered a lightweight (albeit inspired) sparkle of dance-pop dress-up, and Wye Oak’s Shriek was a satisfying but largely
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Essential New Music: Drive-By Truckers’ “American Band”
The differences between Drive-By Truckers albums are incremental rather than seismic. You know you’ll get well-written narratives from singer/songwriter/guitarists Patterson
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Essential New Music: The Monochrome Set’s “Cosmonaut”
Stateside fanfare for the Monochrome Set has never been especially rabid, but when the British post-punk O.G.s made a comeback
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Essential New Music: Blackberry Smoke’s “Like An Arrow”
Southern-rock stylists Blackberry Smoke aren’t patronizing bro-country dudes stumping for radio airplay. They’re smart, good ol’ boys playing classic music
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Essential New Music: The Connells’ “Stone Cold Yesterday: Best Of The Connells”
If there was ever a poster band for the college-rock aesthetic, it’s the Connells—if only for the fact that they
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Essential New Music: The Bevis Frond’s “It Just Is,” “Sprawl” And “Superseeder”
Three mid-period albums from U.K. psych/pop grey eminence Nick Saloman get the deluxe reissue treatment in two-LP/two-CD packaging. Salomon released
Essential New Music: Trentemøller’s “Fixion”
Danish producer/DJ Anders Trentemøller has gone from strength to strength since The Last Resort, his visionary 2006 debut record. In
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R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania
