Here is our usual end of the month round up of the very best tracks posted on Mad Mackerel, with a couple of new ones too. A perfect mixtape for May. Wilderness of Manitoba – Hermit mp3 Intimate and gorgeous, with haunting guitar lines and beautiful harmonies. Buffalo Moon – Beach Boy mp3 Summery pop, beach references, breezy beats and sweet lounge vocals. Sun Kil … Continue reading MM’s Best Of The Month: May
You know what you’re going to get with Australian four-piece Eddy Current Suppression Ring. You’re going to get high octane, garage rock and proto-punk, drawing influences from The Troggs through to Wire and The Fall. There are no pretensions, no apologies, no surprises, no airs and graces and frankly they are all the better for it. The last album Rush To Relax was energetic, good humoured … Continue reading New from Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Le Sang Song are a folk band of sorts. However theirs is a skewed folk, mixing in all manner of styles and instruments, but never at the expense of the song or the rhythm. Their self-titled album was actually recorded in 2007, but only got a limited release at the start of this year. Gingerella is a case in point. It is right up MM’s … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Le Sang Song
We’re a little late to this one, 600,000 Bands being a 7″ single that came out at the tail end of 2009. However, it is one of those songs that once you’ve heard it, you shake your head, play it again and see if it was quite as original and surprising as you first thought. It is! The band, Felt Letters, are a trio from … Continue reading Introducing…Felt Letters
On Joe Pug’s album The Messenger is a song called Bury Me Far (From My Uniform) and in honour of Memorial Day in the USA he has made it available for free download. Visit his MySpace here. Buy The Messenger here. Download Joe Pug – Bury Me Far (From My Uniform) mp3 (from The Messenger) Continue reading Joe Pug gives up free download
Here is a lazy blogger’s round-up of some of the new tracks that we’ve come across and enjoyed over the past few days and weeks, some of which might tickle your ears in a good way. The Moondoggies delivered a cracking album in 2008’s Don’t Be A Stranger and have a follow-up due in September titled Tidelands. In the meantime they are releasing a five track … Continue reading Saturday Round-Up
Hey, a lot can happen in a week. MM has had a spell in hospital; one of the sprats is being very teenaged before his time, and another is too far away. And I’m more tired than I’ve felt in a very long time. So I’ve rather run out of steam (most of it’s been given to an insatiably stroppy 12 year old) this Friday, … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday
Ever since we first posted about The War Crimes at the start of the year we’ve gone back time and time again to their wilfully down-tempo, unnerving, chamber pop. Sometimes orchestral and sometimes folkish, the songs offer literate (occasionally surreal), half-spoken lyrics, quietly insistent melodies, and an air of regret and bitterness that all adds to the overall sense of unease. They simultaneously conjure up … Continue reading MM salutes the genius of The War Crimes
Washington DC trio Daddy Lion dropped us a line to recommend their fuzzy indie rock and we’re glad they did. Having given their self-titled EP a few plays while stuck in bed, I’m pleased to report it has more to it than the all too common indie-by-numbers approach that we are often exposed to. No we’re pleased to confirm there’s meat on these bones. The … Continue reading Introducing…Daddy Lion
Being laid up on a week’s bed rest means at we’ve at least managed to finally get our longstanding idea for a blog/website for wannabe writers up and running. Roundthecampfire.wordpress.com is a new idea where we regularly give you a couple of titles, and you use that stimulus and your imagination to write something. You can write whatever you like, in any genre and any … Continue reading Check out our new site…for writers
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