Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Jenn Grant’s “Paradise”

What makes a record sound “overproduced”? Unnecessary lushness, maybe, but when is lushness ever really “necessary”? That’s sort of its

This Louisville, Ky., songwriter has given us some of the most purely gorgeous folk music of the decade, and her

Ryan Pollie turns in another collection of desolate tunes on his second album titled Los Angeles Police Department, which may

In its native Portugal, the decades-old the Gift is a moody marvel of alt- art-pop: an electronically induced ensemble led

Chicago’s Flatfoot 56 continues to defy odds. For 17 years, the band has thrived playing faith- based, traditional, instrument-accented Celtic

Arto Lindsay sings in a delicate, narrow range inspired by Caetano Veloso, João Gilberto and other Tropicália stars he heard

What an odd, creakily compelling record this is. Irish new-folk singer Fionn Regan, heretofore largely content to work in acoustic-guitar-and-voice

Onstage, Mac DeMarco is a goofball imp, good-natured if slightly asinine; on record, he’s a serene, sincere, soft-pop balladeer. Those

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania