Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC
Essential New Music: Innode’s “Grain”
Grain is the third recording by Innode, a trio founded by ex-Radian and Lokai guitarist Stefan Németh. If you had to sum
Essential New Music: Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin’s “Ghosted II”
You don’t need to be a mathematician to know that two is more than one. This axiom applies to the
Essential New Music: 番長 Taste’s “I Dipped My Comb In Shochu And Ran It Through The Hair Of The Night”
Let’s start with the album title. It looks luxuriant enough to apply to a Jon Hassell LP with an accompanying,
Essential New Music: Joshua Massad & Dylan Aycock’s “Two Improvisations”
The raga is a platonic ideal for the guitarists who founded the “Takoma school” and those who have followed in
Essential New Music: Vampire Weekend’s “Only God Was Above Us”
The first word on the new Vampire Weekend album is “fuck.” You heard it here first. (Unless you read that
Essential New Music: Alice Coltrane’s “The Carnegie Hall Concert”
The Carnegie Hall Concert inaugurates The Year Of Alice, a series of concerts, exhibits and publications celebrating the legacy of
Essential New Music: Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra/Small Unit’s “Spectral Fiction”
On March 24 of last year, Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra used Chicago’s Adler Planetarium as a launch pad for
Essential New Music: Star City Survivor’s “Wilderness”
The members of this guitar/drums duo live in North Carolina’s Triangle, a conglomeration of metropolitan areas that contains three major
Essential New Music: Alastair Galbraith’s “Talisman”
Full disclosure: The album under consideration and I go way back. My old micro-label put one of its songs on
Essential New Music: Concepción Huerta’s “The Earth Has Memory”
Sound’s a funny thing. You can feel its vibrations, but you’ll never put your hands on them. Concepción Huerta exploits
Essential New Music: Itasca’s “Imitation Of War”
When Kayla Cohen spoke to MAGNET in 2016, she gave this explanation for selecting the name Itasca: “The word means
Essential New Music: Krise’s “Svartsymra”
The name of Norwegian quartet Krise translates as “Crisis,” and the title of its debut LP, Svartsymra, could be rendered
Essential New Music: Die Enttäuschung’s “Die Komplette Enttäuschung”
If you set about explaining Die Enttäuschung in its native language, you might fairly plead, “Es ist kompliziert.” Not because
Essential New Music: Elena Setién’s “Moonlit Reveries”
Elena Setién started making her last album, Unfamiliar Minds, just as COVID shut things down, and the stuckness of that time manifested