Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC
Essential New Music: Low Cut Connie’s “Hi Honey”
Even when a mere year separated the release of Low Cut Connie’s second album from its first, the energetic combo
Essential New Music: The Tallest Man On Earth “Dark Bird Is Home”
Kristian Matsson is a musician who can hold a theater of thousands in rapt attention with just an acoustic guitar
Essential New Music: Mew’s “+ -“
Since 1994, the Danish indie rockers in Mew have found interesting and engaging ways to bend progressive rock into exotic
Essential New Music: Prurient’s “Frozen Niagara Falls”
In an about-face to the insular world of American noise music, which he’d been the preeminent voice of for nearly
Essential New Music: Red House Painters’ “Red House Painters”
“So much that I can’t say to you,” Mark Kozelek croons on “Drop,” a raw, ethereal epic toward the end
Essential New Music: Speedy Ortiz’s “Foil Deer”
With Foil Deer, Speedy Ortiz fully owns its style, quirks and neuroses on a level that would have been unimaginable

















