Woodsman have unveiled another cut of sublime spacey, psychedelia from their forthcoming Mystic Places EP. Specdrum is one of six new songs on the new record, available October 25th – you can pre-order here from Fire Talk Records (but be quick, vinyl is limited to 300 copies). Download Woodsman – Specdrum mp3 (from Mystic Places EP) Download Woodsman – In Circles mp3 (from Mystic Places EP) Continue reading More From Woodsman
Folkish London duo The Skeleton Dead were originally a discovery of the esteemed Mrs Mackerel, and their brand of often malevolent, and occasionally macabre, lyrics contrast wonderfully with their sparsely delicate instrumentation. We previously described them as genuinely haunting – in the best sense of the word of course. Now they have completed their self titled debut album and made it available for free download via … Continue reading Free Album Download From The Skeleton Dead
As I recall Blind Pilot were the support band for the Decemberists gig we went to earlier this year in Birmingham. And, to be honest, I didn’t take enough notice of them to form an opinion either way as to their merits or otherwise. However, last week they released their new album We Are The Tide and taster track Keep You Right is a lovely … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Blind Pilot
Firm MM favourite and all round top chap Wooden Wand has announced a limited edition six album archive boxset – this one is Volume 3. Available now from PIAPTK, the 6 LPs come in hand-screened jackets and heavy duty, hand-made, stained, and silkscreened wooden boxes! There were only 200 boxsets made (75 on gold vinyl and 125 on black vinyl), and there are also 100 copies … Continue reading Wooden Wand Archives Collection, Vol. 3
Memphis based Nick Burk, aka Acid Glasses, has released a video to accompany his new single My Pale Garden. Playing on the track’s overtly psychedelic nature, the video further encapsulates everything in Burk’s outlandlishly hallucinogenic world. Finding the man himself shrouded by masks of colour as he beckons archive freak-outs from all and sundry. In fact we think it is just the ticket for frightening Granny…especially … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Acid Glasses
We’ve shared tracks from party garage surf rockers The Boom Bang on MM a couple of times and this the video for their track Vietnomnomnom from their World War Fun album through Nice People Records. Check out some previous downloads from the band below too. a Download The Boom Bang – Tobacula mp3 (from World War Fun) Download The Boom Bang – Run Way Away mp3 (from Bummer Camp EP) Download … Continue reading New Video From The Boom Bang
We have been meaning to post about Slow Down, Molasses for a while now, and especially so since catching their set at The End of the Road Festival earlier this month. They describe themselves as a Canadian alt/drone/folk rock band and it is as good a place to start as any. New album Walk Into The Sea was released here in the UK earlier this … Continue reading Introducing…Slow Down, Molasses
We have posted a couple of times previously about the pulsing, krautrock inspired post-punk of The Soft Moon and were big fans of their debut album released towards the end of last year. So it is good to see they are back with a new EP titled Total Decay, which, appropriately enough gets a release on Halloween via the always excellent Captured Tracks label. Take … Continue reading New EP From The Soft Moon
The Beets inhabit the rawer end of the garage rock spectrum and will release a new album on Hardly Art next month (October 24th) titled Let The Poison Out. This is taken from it, the primal, lo-fi goodness of Doing As I Do. Pre-order from the label here. Download The Beets – Doing As I Do mp3 (from Let The Poison Out) Continue reading New Album From The Beets
We’ve already posted two tracks from Luke Temple’s album Don’t Act Like You Don’t Care. Now here’s a third titled More Than Muscle and if the evidence of these three are anything to go by, we are in for a treat. Out on Western Vinyl. Download Luke Temple – More Than Muscle mp3 (from Don’t Act Like You Don’t Care) Download Luke Temple – How Could I … Continue reading And Another From Luke Temple
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