Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Brian Eno’s “The Ship”
After several years of recording skronky space soul with Underworld’s Karl Hyde, Brian Eno returns to his first solo effort

Essential New Music: Wire’s “Nocturnal Koreans”
Restless rule-breaking helped make Wire’s first three records required listening, but now that the band is entering its fourth decade,

Essential New Music: Hudson Bell’s “Yerba Buena”
Hudson Bell’s fifth album opens with a description of mundane hanging around (“Here comes a car/And there we are/Just waitin’

Essential New Music: ANOHNI’s “Hopelessness”
ANOHNI—the former Antony Hegarty—is no stranger to astonishing, emotionally powerful music. But Hopelessness is another world—not merely a new name

Essential New Music: The Coathangers’ “Nosebleed Weekend”
It’s been 10 years since we first got a burnt copy of a burnt copy of the Coathangers. It was

Essential New Music: Cluster’s “1971-1981”
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, two German dudes—Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius—spurred an artistic movement

Essential New Music: Aesop Rock’s “The Impossible Kid”
Back in the day, Avirex made jeans to match its Butter Softs, backpacks and headphones, and Pumas were the daily

Essential New Music: The Dandy Warhols’ “Distortland”
It's been a while since Portland’s Dandy Warhols graced us with new material: 2012, in fact (the somber and uneven