Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Raf Rundell’s “The Adventures Of Selfie Boy Pt. 1”
The debut solo outing from the lesser-known half of the wildly underrated 2 Bears (alongside Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard) is

Essential New Music: Agnes Obel’s “Citizen Of Glass”
Danish pianist Agnes Obel’s music is the sound of a haunted head and a haunted heart. Spectral keyboard lines and

Essential New Music: The Notwist’s “Superheroes, Ghostvillians & Stuff”
The Notwist was busy reinventing itself over and over again before most of us in the U.S. heard the band

Essential New Music: Lido’s “Everything”
The discipline of sound design has been around since before the dawn of the talkies, but these days it refers

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

Essential New Music: ESP Ohio’s “Starting Point Of The Royal Cyclopean”
It may not be a coincidence that Robert Pollard’s latest Guided By Voices offshoot, ESP Ohio, kicks off its debut

Essential New Music: Crocodiles’ “Dreamless”
For the last few years, change has both defined San Diego-based duo Crocodiles and made them impossible to define. They

Essential New Music: Shirley Collins’ “Lodestar”
We’ve seen several once-forgotten folk luminaries return to recording after multi-decade silences (Vashti Bunyan at 60, Linda Perhacs at 70),