Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: A Dead Forest Index’s “In All That Drifts From Summit Down”

A New Zealand-via-London-via-Melbourne sibling duo, A Dead Forest Index highlights both worldliness and dichotomy on its debut LP. Musically, the

The latest album from Berlin supergroup Moderat is likely its most accessible, too. As lead single “Reminder” suggests, and the

You don’t hear the terms “dada,” “avant-garde” and “punk” combined as much as you used to, but back in the

Some bands just aren’t into making friendly music. Montreal’s Suuns (pronounced “soons”) are one such example. Murky and dissonant, they

When Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam collaborated with Band Of Horses’ Ben Bridwell on last year’s Sing Into My Mouth,

The music on You’re Doomed. Be Nice reflects the album title, but Rob Crow’s new songs aren’t any more pessimistic

Electro-pop icons the Pet Shop Boys are still kicking after millions of albums sold and all these years of software

Apocalypse and dread have always wreathed the Renderers’ music, but it took a genuine disaster to set the stage for

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania