Just over a year ago we posted about the “twisted carnival folk” of Crystal Bright & The Silver Hands and so now, 13 months on, we are pleased to bring news of the release of second album Muses & Bones. It will be released on March 27th. Taster track is the startling Especially Your Mother, vocals swoop and whisper while the melody gallops along on … Continue reading Crystal Bright & The Silver Hands Prep Muses & Bones
We love the idosyncratic, perverse folk ramblings of Benjamin Shaw and his arsenic laced pathos. It is truly a unique delight. The Birds Chirp & The Sun Shines is the second single from his excellent debut album There’s Always Hope, There’s Always Cabernet. The song is perhaps one of the sonically lighter moments on the record but sees him threatening to “track him down, make him … Continue reading New Single From Benjamin Shaw
It’s Valentines Day. Love it or hate it, you can’t deny it. I will, of course, effortlessly be showing Mrs M just what a lucky catch I was. And for the rest of you, by way of a massively contrived link, let us cover you with love too. Here is a tasty little mix of covers we’ve picked up to follow on from yesterday’s Bad … Continue reading It’s Valentines Day…
We posted a couple of times last autumn about good time garage rockers Turf War and their rowdy debut album Years of Living Dangerously and now they will be heading out on tour (with fellow MM Faves The Boom Bang) in support of the record. To mark the occasion they have made available this typically raucous cover of the Creedence classic, Bad Moon Rising. Download Turf … Continue reading Turf War Cover Bad Moon Rising
Winter is the first taste from the forthcoming Maps & Atlases record Beware And Be Grateful. It is typically tight and dense, but still catchy indie-pop and according to the band, “The song contrasts memory and the perspective of winter as a season of possibility and creativity with the bleak, stillness of winter nights in the Midwest.” The album will be available via FatCat from … Continue reading MM Shorts 95: Maps & Atlases
We previously posted French songstress Alice Michel’s sublime version of Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love and now she has dropped us a line with an original composition. This is The Weather In Your Head and it is just as alluring and as captivating as we could have hoped. Have a listen. a Continue reading More From Alice Michel
Time for another swift round-up of some of the best tunes into our in-box and from around our favourite music blogs. A little while ago we posted the video for Shrouded Strangers excellent track Featherbed, and now we have the mp3 for you as well. We also have the full-on power pop of Fort Lean and their new single Sunsick, some Swedish punk from new … Continue reading Sunday Means Eight Of The Best
Here’s something to help get you in the mood for next Tuesday. It comes from Kayln Rock’s rather lovely album Passenger which is full of low-key, restrained, but ultimately affecting and powerful songs – none more so than the heartbreaking honesty of Valentine. Order the album here. Download Kayln Rock – Valentine mp3 (from Passenger) Continue reading MM Shorts 94: Kayln Rock
Since the indefinite hiatus / demise of Wolf Parade, Spencer Krug has been concentrating on new project Moonface. Last year saw the release of Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped and he has now announced a follow up that has been recorded with Finnish band Siinai called With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery. This is the first taste from the album and it is a stormer – all … Continue reading New From Moonface
Bang on the money this week: gin in hand, more snow outside, Andy Williams is playing… You know that feeling (maybe?) that you just want something to dance to that your Dad used to play on vinyl when you were small… I still have the moves, Pops: Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, followed by a bit of Moon River. Anyway, enough of that. You … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (10th February)
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