Yesterday Partisan Records released the latest full-length effort from Paleo entitled A View Of The Sky, available in CD, LP, Ltd. Edition Color Vinyl and Digital Download formats. Paleo has been traveling the country for the last 6 years. Booking his own shows, he has been playing roughly 150 dates a year while living out of his car and staying with people kind enough to share … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Paleo
Freakout is the new single and taster track from the forthcoming Tapes ‘n Tapes album Outside, which is released on 11th January. It is out on their own label, Ibid Records. And it is a crackerjack of a new song. Living up to its title, it is a frenetic romp that is catchier than just about anything we’ve heard so far this month. Certainly the … Continue reading New from Tapes ‘n Tapes
This new track/single, Get Some, from Lykke Li popped up on my playlist on the flight up north to a very wet and miserable Glasgow. I played it four times in a row. I know it is everywhere by now, and rightly so, it is a fantastic piece of subversive pop music. It comes in advance of her second album due in early 2011. You … Continue reading New from Lykke Li
David Gergen takes acoustic indie rock places it rarely goes, especially on one record. Bending ambience on Seven Miles to Sunset, throbbing electronics on Ore De Electro, along with bluesy slide guitar on The Streets I’m Walking, there’s a taste of everything on Gergen’s latest solo release (his fourth), The Nearer it Was…The Farther It Became. His voice, though consistently deep and resonant evokes the … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…David Gergen
Johnny Flynn has unveiled the video for his new single The Water which features guest vocals from Laura Marling. The Water references the life-giving and taking properties of the subject matter, “The water can’t drown me / I’m done with my dying.” A bleak sentiment brought to life with disarming vocals, simple guitar plucks and breathtakingly beautiful percussion. This is the third single from his recent … Continue reading New video from Johnny Flynn
Blessed Feathers describe themselves as ‘a folkish trio from Milwaukee’, and dropped us a line about their self-titled debut album together with a couple of videos. I guess you could call it a sparse sort of sound with minimal instrumentation accompanying the vocals and giving it an old-fashioned, home-made feel that is every bit as charming as it is good. However, to succeed with an … Continue reading Introducing…Blessed Feathers
We’ve already posted one superb Ramones cover recently (by Port O’Brien), but there is always room for another. And it might not be quite the usual MM fare either. After releasing two successful indie hiphop records and becoming one of the bigger names in the LA underground hiphop scene, Lexicon became frustrated. At first they were content in simply being a part of the scene … Continue reading Introducing…Lexicon
My, they’re a good looking bunch aren’t they! We’ve posted about Gaoler’s Daughter a couple of times on Mad Mackerel and they’ve definitely been one of those bands we’ve marked out as worth keeping an eye on. An unusual mix of styles and sounds and a great ear for melody means they demand the listener’s attention and then retain the capacity to consistently surprise them. … Continue reading New EP from Gaoler’s Daughter
Bear Bones is an 8 piece ensemble of accordion, brass, bells, banjo, strings, drums and voices, is the realisation of a project started by Ben Harrison. After growing up on a remote Hebridean Scottish Island, Ben moved to Glasgow and started writing songs inspired by his island home and the life he led there. The band’s first single Oil & Lacquer quietly became a must‐have record … Continue reading Introducing…Bear Bones
Supposedly named after Vesta, the brightest asteroid in our solar system, the moniker is an obvious nod to Spacemen 3, the classic UK band which The Asteroid #4 repeatedly cite as an influence. In fact, one of the group’s earliest recorded offerings was an even spacier (if that’s possible) version of Losing Touch With My Mind on Rocket Girl’s tribute compilation to the psych giants. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Asteroid #4
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