Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC
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Essential New Music: The Joy Formidable’s “Hitch”
It’s been nearly a decade since the Joy Formidable stormed out of Wales with an elephant gun full of shoegaze
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Essential New Music: Various Artists’ “Heartworn Highways”
James Szalapski’s Heartworn Highways, shot in 1974/1975 but released in 1981, is a jaw-dropping moment of prescient timing—a raw document
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Essential New Music: Boris With Merzbow’s “Gensho”
Boris and Merzbow are such natural complements, it’s surprising they haven’t collaborated more. As on 2007’s live platter Rock Dream,
Essential New Music: Explosions In The Sky’s “The Wilderness”
Though they managed to distill and even popularize post-rock’s driving intensity and dramatic dynamics for millions of households with their
Essential New Music: The Last Shadow Puppets’ “Everything You’ve Come To Expect”
The debut from the Last Shadow Puppets (Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner and best mate Miles Kane), 2008’s The Age Of
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Essential New Music: Mike And The Melvins’ “Three Men And A Baby”
In the annals of lost rock albums, none could be as unassumingly murky as Mike And The Melvins’ 1999 sessions.
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Essential New Music: Richmond Fontaine’s “You Can’t Go Back If There’s Nothing To Go Back To”
You Can’t Go Back If There’s Nothing To Go Back To is being touted as Richmond Fontaine’s farewell LP, and
Essential New Music: Tim Hecker’s “Love Streams”
“Obsidian Counterpoint,” the five absorbing minutes of electronic pinprick shimmers, airy flutish burbles and spongy, spasmodic shard-stabs that open Tim
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R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania
