New track from Solar Temple Suicides

Since their formation, Solar Temple Suicides have slowly been perfecting their own brand of drugged out, spacey haze. They preach long and tall effects-laiden, psychedelic mantras with unabashed space rock tendencies and hallucinatory walls of sound. We’ve already given you one track from their debut full-length album, Sentinels of the Heliosphere, and here is another, the rather magnificent Pale Blue Dot. The album will be released … Continue reading New track from Solar Temple Suicides

The Migrant – new video for Nothing But Clues

The Migrant’s album Travels in Lowland has been one of our unexpected treasures of 2010, a record of wonderful, pysch tinged folk that draws you in and envelops you in a warm cocoon of simply constructed and beautifully sung songs. Boston based production company Extraneous Noise do a lot of work producing video content for bands playing in the area, and thought we might be … Continue reading The Migrant – new video for Nothing But Clues

New from Tennis & Cloud Nothings

Two of the better (in our opinion) most-hyped-bands-of-2010 have just released new tracks. Husband and wife duo Tennis play a winsome style of indie pop that is very of the moment. Take Me Somewhere comes from their planned debut Cape Dory, due for release in early 2011. Visit their MySpace here. Download Tennis – Take Me Somewhere mp3 (from Cape Dory) Likewise Cloud Nothings self … Continue reading New from Tennis & Cloud Nothings

New track from What Would Jesus Drive

What Would Jesus Drive have released a new free mp3, Your Awful Kids, which is a little change in direction from last month’s The Girls Are In Charge EP (which is currently standing very near the pinnacle of Mr Popper’s top ten of 2010). The electro-punksters take a darker indie-pop edge, this song displays the band’s rockier influences and really shows they’ve got balls with … Continue reading New track from What Would Jesus Drive

New from Women

The album Public Strain by the un-Googleable (if such a word exists) Women is one of those that has nagged away at us, slyly skulking around looking for ways to infiltrate our subconsciousness. On first, second, and subsequent listens it becomes a little bit more familiar, a little bit more impressive, a little bit more essential until suddenly you realise that it is an album … Continue reading New from Women

New single from Grass House

A while ago we posted about new band Grass House and their excellent debut EP Plough More Sky. In fact we said the lead track A Cockroach was a dark-hearted and sonic delight and so it was – proving to be one of our favourite songs of the year, and Joe’s bedtime track of choice…every single night. Now they have returned with an excellent new single … Continue reading New single from Grass House

Loch Lomond ready new album

MM faves Loch Lomond will be releasing a new album in early 2011. It will be called Little Me Will Start A Storm and is out via Tender Loving Empire. We saw them play by chance at SxSW in 2009, and were captivated by the lovely harmonies and the wonderful, sometimes, orchestral sound matched with often surreal or bizarre lyrical wordplay. Elephants & Little Girls … Continue reading Loch Lomond ready new album

Introducing…The Sheepdogs

We were introduced to Canadian band The Sheepdogs via Hear Ya, and having put their song I Don’t Know on to a CD for the car, it has promptly become Joe’s new favourite track and is pretty much on repeat for every journey we make. The song, which is a real twangy, country infused singalong, seems to have been around for a while and comes from … Continue reading Introducing…The Sheepdogs

Introducing…Whole Sky Monitor

The chief export of Leeds’ Whole Sky Monitor is sonic shock. Their latest effort, Twisted Little Piggies, released at the start of November, is a brilliantly discordant and vaguely political body of energetic (and possibly upsetting) rock and roll blasts that smokes and sweats bullets. They boldly come wearing influences such as The Fall, Wire and The Wedding Present on their sleeves, and replete with … Continue reading Introducing…Whole Sky Monitor