Back at the beginning of the year we posted about the well crafted indie rock of Halo Sparkle. They are back with a new EP and are sharing the video for White Picket Fences as well as giving the track away as a free download. Enjoy. a Download Halo Sparkle – White Picket Fences mp3 Continue reading MM Shorts 192: Another From Halo Sparkle
Nallo have just released their album Mechano And The Trees, a beautiful mix of garage, psych and wierdo-folk reverb! It switches from the full on freakout of album opener Different and the fizzing previous single Submarines to slower paced jams like Beasts And Cartoons (Rope And Sand). In fact it is this confident and easily managed shift of styles throughout that makes the record such a … Continue reading New Album From Nallo
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The debut record by Southend’s Wobbly Lamps is the first release on Polyvinyl Craftsmen Records (an independent DIY label set up by the team behind the Polyvinyl Craftsmen podcasts). It contains three tracks of strutting garage rock that evokes the best of The Trashmen through to the surging sonics of the Stooges and the voodoo swagger of the Cramps. This is no pastiche though, these boys have enough … Continue reading Introducing…Wobbly Lamps
A fairly mundane week on the honorary accolades front. Nothing to report. Outstanding pasta salad awarded by Joe Sprat. Superlative nag silently attributed by Teenage Sprat. Tssk. I ask you. The hound came third in the agility group (out of a class of five) in a school dog show and failed to perform for best trick, for which I was photographed taking a sideways swipe … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (13th July)
In Some Ways sees unusual New Zealand trio Popstrangers, muscle into new sonic territories and deliver another catchy, albeit warped, pop song. Rusty guitar twangs, discordant drones and jarring rhythms diverge into hooky bridges filled with washes of hazy riffs that buoy languid, disaffected vocals. Download it via Soundcloud. a Continue reading MM Shorts 191: Popstrangers
On August 14th Concord Music Group will release Just Tell Me That You Want Me, a Tribute to the enduring popularity of Fleetwood Mac featuring covers by such MM faves as The Kills, Best Coast, Tame Impala, Washed Out, MGMT and plenty more. For more details and pre-order options just click here. Otherwise, sit back and listen to a goodly chunk of the whole album … Continue reading Listen To The Fleetwood Mac Tribute Album
Good stuff coming out of our ears from every direction at the moment. Here’s a little round-up of eight of the best of them. Download them all below. First up we have punky psych-rockers Cult of Youth with a taste of forthcoming album Love Will Prevail (out September on Sacred Bones), this is Man And Man’s Ruin. Keeping the noise levels in the red are … Continue reading Thursday Means Eight of the Best
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