Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Wolf Parade’s “Cry Cry Cry”

Seven years after taking an extended break, Wolf Parade returns with another album full of potential anthems. Inspired in part

January 9, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Dhani Harrison’s “IN///PARALLEL”

After 17 years of working on the periphery of the music business (e.g. RZA, Prince, his trio with Joseph Arthur

January 7, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Brockhampton’s “Saturation III”

Hip-hop acts—let alone ones with boy-band underpinnings—rarely showcase the sheer chemistry that Brockhampton has managed with its Saturation trilogy. And

January 7, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Pere Ubu’s “20 Years In A Montana Missile Silo”

Like its immediate predecessors, 2013’s Lady From Shanghai and 2014’s Carnival Of Souls, Pere Ubu’s newest skates the line between

January 6, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: King Krule’s “The Ooz”

Much has been made of the British artist known to his family as Archy Marshall in the years between his

January 4, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Ariel Pink’s “Dedicated To Bobby Jameson”

L.A.’s Ariel Rosenberg gives great, ur-gauche pastiche; he remains a pop perfectionist and illusionist. Dedicated To Bobby Jameson reintroduces the

January 2, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: The Replacements’ “For Sale: Live At Maxwell’s 1986”

Considered as the Replacements’ only professionally recorded full-length concert, For Sale: Live At Maxwell’s 1986 would be noteworthy. Here’s the

December 31, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Dungen’s “Häxan-Versions By Prins Thomas”

While prog and dub are rarely discussed together, this album makes a pretty strong case for bridging the two aesthetics

December 30, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania