Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Ty Segall’s “Emotional Mugger”
The road between Ty Segall albums is rarely a long one, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of twists

Essential New Music: Lee Hazlewood’s “The Very Special World Of Lee Hazlewood,” “Lee Hazlewoodism: Its Cause And Cure” And “Something Special”
There’s something unearthly cool about a Lee Hazlewood record—the “Hillbilly Shakespeare” and his cosmic twang were audio dynamite when coupled

Essential New Music: Emma Pollock’s “In Search Of Harperfield”
Emma Pollock, formerly of Scottish band the Delgados, is nine years into an exemplary, underrated solo career. (Of course, the

Essential New Music: Pete Astor’s “Spilt Milk”
U.K. indie rocker Pete Astor has a voice like Robyn Hitchcock’s, placed high and front in the mix, and he

Essential New Music: Lucinda Williams’ “The Ghosts Of Highway 20”
Lucinda Williams is on a roll: 2014’s double album Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone was a late-career highlight,

Essential New Music: Dr. Dog’s “Psychedelic Swamp”
It’s easy to forget that Dr. Dog used to be a seriously weird band. Most of its recent existence has

Essential New Music: White Fang’s “Chunks”
Engineer/producer Bobby Harlow has said that White Fang collectively and “in all sincerity” hoped Chunks would ultimately “sound like a

Essential New Music: Oneohtrix Point Never’s “Garden Of Delete”
After noise-rap upstarts/notable flakes Death Grips disbanded again without warning last summer—leaving Nine Inch Nails without an opening act for