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Kinski

Essential New Music: Kinski’s “7 (Or 8)”

Continuing their film-buff aesthetic (band moniker plus the director their side project Herzog is named for—look it up if necessary)

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JimORourke

Essential New Music: Jim O’Rourke’s “Simple Songs”

It’s not as if Jim O’Rourke made easily digestible vocal records when he was part of the indie-avant pop milieu

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MOS

Essential New Music: Mates Of State’s “You’re Going To Make It”

The pleasantly cacophonous joy of Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel is the unpredictable blessing and occasional curse of Mates Of
EvanCaminiti

Essential New Music: Evan Caminiti’s “Meridian”

Evan Caminiti’s main gig is Barn Owl, a duo in which he helps concoct desert-scorched drones that are pierced by
MajorLazer

Essential New Music: Major Lazer’s “Peace Is The Mission”

With the promise of several new Major Lazer albums immediately following this, Peace Is The Mission is an opening salvo

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JoannaGruesome

Essential New Music: Joanna Gruesome’s “Peanut Butter”

The Welsh quintet’s second release goes down as easy as a mixtape on a ’90s spring day. Clocking in at
Jamiexx

Essential New Music: Jamie xx’s “In Colour”

Better known to his mother as Jamie Smith, Jamie xx is essentially the one-man backline for London beat alchemists and
HotChip

Essential New Music: Hot Chip’s “Why Make Sense?”

In Our Heads, Hot Chip’s last album, was a masterpiece: an ecstatic, heart-surging testament to the intertwined power of music,

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R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

LeonardCohen

Essential New Music: Leonard Cohen’s “Can’t Forget: A Souvenir Of The Grand Tour”

Drawn from Leonard Cohen’s Herculean world tour of 2012-’13, this rather humbly titled live disc feels like just that—a postcard,