Coasting is a Brooklyn duo (Madison & Fiona) that are starting to generate quite a bit of interest amongst the indie-cool and even the not-so-cool like us. We first heard them via the Friendship Bracelet series and now they have a debut triple A sided 7″ available via M’Lady’s Records. Part lo-fi garage, part sweet harmonies and part early 80s New Wave, check out Kids … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Coasting
We Are Country Mice released a couple of 7″ singles last year, one of which, the EP Make Your Own Damn Fun featured one of our top songs of 2009 in the stomping, infectious A Good Old Fashioned Barn Raising. So we have been waiting eagerly to see what they would be doing next. And now we know – it will be a limited edition cassette … Continue reading New from We Are Country Mice
Perhaps you thought this fish was too mellow for anything like the Butthole Surfers? Well this Friday, I’m most definitely in the mood for something with its roots in punk. This week has seen verbal slights and physical swipes a-go-go. All I can say is this: people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, and if you throw any more at my kids, prepare to get … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday
Rhode Island residents The Benedictions play what is often called called devil music. They must do because their just released album is called The Benedictions Play Devil Music. On this occasion it’s hard folk, hard blues, hard country. It conjures images of grizzled old timers with whiskey eyes stamping their boots on beer-soaked wooden floors before heading back out into the dusty desert. It is authentic, … Continue reading Introducing…The Benedictions
Judging by their press one-sheet alone, The Victor Mourning are one of those bands that MM tends to like a lot. It talks of performing dark, thought provoking, starkly haunting songs that tell the tales of grief-torn outcasts, of confidences betrayed, of piracy, and murder. It goes on to mention a song about a man who eats nothing but locusts and Campbell’s soup, another about a … Continue reading Introducing…The Victor Mourning
Last week we posted about the Adult Swim Singles Project and gave you the fourth in the weekly series of eight from Washed Out. The fifth is now doing the rounds and Before You Judge Me is a typically swaggering, boozy cut of garage rock from The Black Lips. Visit Black Lips MySpace here. Download The Black Lips – Before You Judge Me mp3 (from … Continue reading New from the Black Lips
California Shakedown comes from a new Pearl Harbor/Puro Instinct EP simply titled Puro Instinct. This track is an oh so dreamily seductive slice of icy pop, and has effortlessly wrapped MM around its little finger. We suspect the other three tracks on the EP are as equally likely to play the femme fatale and leave you a quivering jelly in no time at all. You … Continue reading Seduced by Puro Instinct
We came across The Real Burnouts Fully Involved EP as a free download (amongst many others) at the excellent Quixodelic Records. The band play a woozy, insistent blend of garage and psychedelic rock that is the equal of anything else we’ve heard in recent times – and there’s some serious competition out there. There are echoes of everything from krautrock to The Monkees to Spacemen 3 … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Real Burnouts
Once you get past the slightly silly name (it took us a while), the music of Peter Wolf Crier is something special to behold. Their album Inter-Be is as much distorted country blues as it is intimate folk, as much delicately introspective as it is intensely passionate. However you want to describe it, the album is truly a marvellous piece of work. Download the sweetly … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Peter Wolf Crier
Listening to Brooklyn’s The Minks forthcoming single Funeral Song (out on Captured Tracks later this month, with an album due in September) is like going back in time to the goth tinged indie glory days of The Cure, The Bunnymen et al. Even the hair is the same. Funeral Song (an appropriately gloomy title) has a vintage Cure bassline, icy synths and shadowy, sombre lyrics about … Continue reading The Minks make MM all nostalgic
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