Kickstart your weekend with a sleazy, adrenalin fuelled shot of The Floors, who are releasing a new single of bluesy, sonic mayhem, Built From Bones, on limited 7” vinyl. The b-side is taken from last year’s debut album Dead Beat - the wonderful delta blues bump ‘n’ grind of Pick Up Your Bones.
Naturally, with two songs mentioning bones, the tour to support this little gem is called…The Bones Tour.
Have a listen.
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Here are eight of the very best tracks to reach out to us from our inbox and the internet over the past few days.
First up we have a new track from the forthcoming album Soft Will from Smith Westerns, which distills the spirit of Big Star into a delicately reverential tribute to classic 70s radio rock. We have the superbly maudlin, gloom-pop of Franklin the Flirt by Porches and possibly even trumping that we have Coma Cinema’s third single from forthcoming album Posthumous Release. The spare, haunting Virgin Veins talks of quiet suffering, loneliness, ugliness and confusion, “The heart is a monument / to a childhood of abuse.“
Next comes the energetic, scrappy indie rock of Potty Mouth and their new single The Spins. We have the enervated, laconic acoustics of Modern Hut and the excellent track History that makes Bill Callahan look like a childrens’ entertainer. Sixth is La Luz’s jangly, surf-tinged harmonies and sweet garage pop of new single Brainwash.
The sub 90 seconds of Bad Boys by White Fang is a triumph of catchy, deliberately dumb rock’n'roll and a cracking track to boot. Finally via the excellent Yankee Calling blog we have a repost of their fine recommendation for Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats and their new 7″ release Look It Here that sounds as joyous a slab of classic 60s soul as you’re likely to hear.
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Black Joe Lewis have announced details of their brand new full-length LP, Electric Slave, to be released on August 27 on Vagrant Records.
The first taste is the excellently named Skulldiggin, which grips from the off with a blistering, distorted blues riff of righteous fury and a gruff vocal of just the right amount of hellfire and brimstone zeal to match.
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Garage noiseniks Speedy Ortiz have featured a number of times on Mad Mackerel and it is fair to say we are very much looking forward to their debut long player Major Arcana, which is out in less than a month on Carpark Records.
No Below is the second single to be taken from it and offers more than enough to whet the appetite for the main dish. Download it here.
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Enjoy a dreamworld populated with magical jellyfish from Dungeonesse in their video for Nightlight, a no frills live performance from Young Aviators and their anthemic Forward Thinking and lastly watch everything go wrong for an inappropriate Mickey Mouse in the Naive New Beaters film for the rocking Shit Happens..
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Start the week with some excellent music videos from Cayucas, San Cisco (covering Daft Punk), Generationals, and King Khan & The Shrines.
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Here is our round-up of our favourite downloads from May’s posts together with a few newbies that, together, make a mix of twenty tracks that is as eclectic as it is perfect! Enjoy.
High Coast – Talvatis
Sweetly picked Americana.
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Landmarks – Cuscutta
Lovely, unhurried, slice of woozy, psych-pop in the grand traditions of Spiritualized or Mercury Rev.
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Black Manila - Père Lachaise
Addictive blend of classic west coast garage riffs, Detroit proto-punk and British charm.
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The Delta Routine – New York Avenue
Swaggering blues rock and roll.
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Graham MacRae – Game Changer
Those Bill Fay and Bill Callahan comparisons seem pretty much on the money.
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Blank Realm – Working On Love
Utterly seductive, completely irresistible, and totally infectious slacker psych-pop.
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Scott & Charlene’s Wedding – Fakin’ NYC
Typically ragged and ramshackle anthem of wry observation.
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Mathew Sawyer – Feeeeling
Another excellent example of his unique/oddball/visitor from Mars perspective on the world.
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The Lawsuits – Onion
A beguiling and schizophrenic mix of modern Americana.
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Duquette Johnston – Cherry Blossom
A fretful, plaintive vocal and some wonderfully ominous fuzzy guitar lines are counterbalanced by lovely harmonies and robust percussion.
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Brendan Benson – Swallow You Whole
Infectiously jaunty piano led slice of indie rock.
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Estrangers – Cape Fear
Full of bombastic and romantic exuberance, part cinematic dreamscape and part Italian beach excursion.
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Therese Aune – Chameleon
Haunting amalgamation of sounds from accordion, to metallophone, to piano, paints a picture of an introvert, who is marooned on the outside looking in.
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No Kill – Sledding
Treasure of jangly guitars and sugar-sweet melodies expertly woven with a woozy, fuzzed up garage rock sensibility.
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Hunting Ulysses – Delicious Ice
Raw, lo-fi garage goodness.
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Vandaveer – Omie Wise
Another murder ballad reinvented by macabre folksters.
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And to finish off we have four new tunes. First from Dirty Streets, Stay Thirsty is heavy music bathed in blues, folk and psychedelia, with chops to spare and a working class point of view. Old Pretender namecheck influences as the Sex Pistols and the Jesus & Mary Chain on their new track I’m Alright while Hugo is the debut single by Kent indie rockers Moccasins. Lastly we have the lo-fi garage surf-pop of Silkies and Walk At Midnight which comes from their forthcoming EP released in June.
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Enjoy some cool videos from Sun Angle with their animated horror homage for track Raspberry, surf-pysch-pop from The Wytches, and new films from Neils Children and Emily Wells.
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We introduced you to the raw, lo-fi garage goodness of Kent’s Hunting Ulysses back in September last year with the release of their hugely promising Feral Youth EP.
We’re pleased to report that they are back with a new EP, Jurassic Pop, containing five more tracks inspired by the primal forces of sleazy, grimy rock’n'roll, and once again available on a pay-what-you-want deal from their Bandcamp page.
This is the EP’s lead track Delicious Ice.
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Enjoy videos from Brazos and their track Charm, from Arborea with Pale Horse Phantasm filmed on location at Acadia National Park in Maine, from The Night Jars who use edits of episodes of the old Defenders of the Earth cartoons for their 60s garage inspired Drones, and from Lars Bygden, a truly brilliant animation for his dark and sorrowful track The Hole – not to be missed.
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