Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: The Amazing’s “Ambulance”

For the past seven years, Dungen guitarist Reine Fiske has side-projected his frontman aspirations into the Amazing, his gorgeously atmospheric,

August 27, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Freetown Sound is so sharply perforating in its look at being black and queer in 2016 that it nearly erases

August 25, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

To those for whom the Avalanches’ Since I Left You is the last will and testament of a bygone world—one

August 23, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

It’s not as easy to pack as much action into 13 minutes as Lifted Bells makes it seem. With Overreactor,

August 18, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The experimental, garage/art/folk of the Low Anthem is one that never ceases to saunter past prediction. The band follows no

August 18, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The Felice Brothers set the tone for Life In The Dark on the album’s second track, “Jack At The Asylum.”

August 16, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania