Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

A Hand Through The Cellar Door finds Luke Temple stripping down his performance to the bare minimum. Subtle acoustic bass,

The debut solo outing from the lesser-known half of the wildly underrated 2 Bears (alongside Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard) is

Danish pianist Agnes Obel’s music is the sound of a haunted head and a haunted heart. Spectral keyboard lines and

The Notwist was busy reinventing itself over and over again before most of us in the U.S. heard the band

The discipline of sound design has been around since before the dawn of the talkies, but these days it refers

Do we need a fourth volume of Mick Harvey’s Serge Gainsbourg covers? Yes, surprisingly. Intoxicated Women comes out of the

It may not be a coincidence that Robert Pollard’s latest Guided By Voices offshoot, ESP Ohio, kicks off its debut

For the last few years, change has both defined San Diego-based duo Crocodiles and made them impossible to define. They

We’ve seen several once-forgotten folk luminaries return to recording after multi-decade silences (Vashti Bunyan at 60, Linda Perhacs at 70),

The Clean said it itself on one of its early songs: “Anything Can Happen.” When David and Hamish Kilgour and

Israel Nash’s shape-shifting maneuver from above-average rootsy singer/songwriter to expansive desert rocker has been one of the more interesting Americana

Split Single auteur Jason Narducy didn’t appear out of nowhere in 2014 with the excellent Fragmented World debut LP; he’s