MAGNET's Raymond Cummings Picks His 30 Favorite LPs Of The Past 30 Years

MAGNET’s Raymond Cummings Picks His 30 Favorite LPs Of The Past 30 Years

To celebrate our 30th anniversary and all the great music that made the past three decades special, MAGNET contributors past
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Best Of 2019: Noise

Best Of 2019: Noise

MAGNET’s Raymond Cummings picks the best noise releases of the year 1) Kelly Ruth Forms (Pseudo Laboratories)2) Stelzer/Murray Commuter (Humanhood)3)
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Best Of 2018: Noise

Best Of 2018: Noise

MAGNET’s Raymond Cummings picks the best noise releases of the year 1 Tongue Depressor Null Set (self-released)2 Travis Johnson &
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Essential New Music: Ariel Pink's "Dedicated To Bobby Jameson"

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
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Best Of 2017: Noise

Best Of 2017: Noise

MAGNET’s Raymond Cummings picks the best noise releases of the year 1 Various Artists Approach To Fear: Regeneration (Karl Schmidt Verlag)
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Essential New Music: High Plains’ “Cinderland"

Essential New Music: High Plains’ “Cinderland”

At its most potent, classical music should stir, move or inspire something in audiences. Emotions ought to be skewed, turned
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Best Of 2016: Noise

Best Of 2016: Noise

MAGNET’s Raymond Cummings picks the best noise releases of the year 1 Morgan & Dilloway Live In A Basement To No
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papam

Essential New Music: Papa M’s “Highway Songs”

Guitar primitivist, post-rock smoothie, dry-throated balladeer, electronic prankster, sideman extraordinaire—over the course of a three-decade career, David Pajo has disappeared
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christophertignor

Essential New Music: Christopher Tignor’s “Along A Vanishing Plane”

In conception, Along A Vanishing Plane is an exceedingly contemporary creation, sculpted using violins, synths, electronics and software. Yet while
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rosali

Essential New Music: Rosali’s “Out Of Love”

Loving me, you or anyone is tricky and nonlinear. So Out Of Love, as an album title, is an abject
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Heliotropes

Essential New Music: Heliotropes’ “Over There That Way”

A world removed from the over-driven crunch, brawn and bash of Heliotropes’ 2013 debut LP A Constant Sea, Over There
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Meyers

Essential New Music: Meyers’ “Negative Space (1981-2014)”

Between uncompromising releases and his Tone Filth label, Minneapolis’ Justin Meyers has spent the past 13 years spray-painting his name
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PowerMonster

Best Of 2015: Noise

MAGNET’s Raymond Cummings picks the best noise releases of the year 1 Power Monster White Single Female (Signora Ward) 2
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Qasim

Essential New Music: Qasim Naqvi’s “Preamble”

Perhaps “abstract modern composition” best describes Preamble, a record perfectly suited to its title. Composed by Dawn Of Midi’s Qasim
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