Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Holger Czukay’s “Cinema”

Released to coincide with what would’ve been his 80th birthday, Cinema is a gorgeous, shady and gawky overview of what

“I’m afraid of pain, both yours and mine,” sings Lucy Dacus plaintively on the cold open to “Yours And Mine,”

It was difficult not to get too excited when Philly’s Kississippi released “Cut Yr Teeth” back in December. It felt

The title of Electronic Music For Piano isn’t the only paradoxical thing about it. The score, which updates an earlier

There’s a crystalline, cold Nordic purity running through First Aid Kit that, combined with a streak of melancholic, autumnal folk/pop

For a record constructed in such an unconventional, informal manner, Yo La Tengo's There’s A Riot Going On is surprisingly structural

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

Even after almost 35 years, Yo La Tengo still comes across—in the best sense of the word—as amateur. Not hardened