Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Concepción Huerta’s “The Earth Has Memory”

Sound’s a funny thing. You can feel its vibrations, but you’ll never put your hands on them. Concepción Huerta exploits

February 23, 2024 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Itasca’s “Imitation Of War”

When Kayla Cohen spoke to MAGNET in 2016, she gave this explanation for selecting the name Itasca: “The word means

February 16, 2024 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Krise’s “Svartsymra”

The name of Norwegian quartet Krise translates as “Crisis,” and the title of its debut LP, Svartsymra, could be rendered

February 9, 2024 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Die Enttäuschung’s “Die Komplette Enttäuschung”

If you set about explaining Die Enttäuschung in its native language, you might fairly plead, “Es ist kompliziert.” Not because

February 2, 2024 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Elena Setién’s “Moonlit Reveries”

Elena Setién started making her last album, Unfamiliar Minds, just as COVID shut things down, and the stuckness of that time manifested

January 26, 2024 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Mariano Rodriguez’s “Exodo”

Mariano Rodriguez is a far-southern representative of the Takoma school of acoustic-guitar playing. Based in Bariloche, Argentina, he’s been recording

January 22, 2024 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Thinking Fellers Union Local 282’s “These Things Remain Unassigned”

Some albums are like photo portraits, artfully arranged to catch their good side from the right angle and retouched so

January 12, 2024 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania