Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC
Essential New Music: Marissa Nadler’s “Strangers”
Can we get back to you about this one in, say, four or five months? It’s just that we’ve been listening
Essential New Music: Spookyland’s “Beauty Already Beautiful”
Marcus Gordon, songwriter and singer for Australia’s Spookyland, has a voice that blends Mick Jagger’s early-’70s before-the-beat sneer with Tymon
Essential New Music: Rachael Sage’s “Choreographic”
There are echoes of Rachael Sage’s theatrical and emotive baroque pop/rock in the likes of Ingrid Michaelson and Sara Bareilles,
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
















