I’m so old I probably don’t even exist to the folks of NME and I seek out new music everyday. But “new” for me isn’t the latest crap from this year’s latest edgiest c-rapper - it’s new artists and new genre from the vast experience of music going back over the previous ten centuries and beyond.
They don't call it "classical" for nothing. By 30 I had almost given up on music, but by accident I discovered the Renaissance/medieval revival and it's stayed with me since. Music from an age where filth, disease and famine showed themselves in hard, unyielding contrast to the beauty, and the wonder, and the mystery of Art.