Helsinki-based four-piece Kiki Pau began as a rather traditional guitar pop group in 2007 but changed their course radically right after the release of their second album. Giving up on the verse-chorus form and focusing on inner space/time-traveling were key elements that gave birth to Kiki Pau’s new sound and third album, Pines. Heavy on extended guitar jams and effect-driven soundscapes, the album is made … Continue reading Kiki Pau To Release Pines
A few days ago we posted If I Were A Carpenter, the Smoke Fairies contribution to the forthcoming Tim Hardin tribute album, Reason To Believe. Here is a second track from the album, this time it is MM fave Mark Lanegan’s take on Red Balloon. Have a listen. Continue reading MM Shorts 303: More From The Tim Hardin Tribute Album
Lazy Talkers – a new indie folk-pop band now based in NYC by way of Baltimore – will release their debut EP in the spring. Check out the easy-going jangle of Killing Time from the EP. Download Lazy Talkers – Killing Time mp3 (from Lazy Talkers) Continue reading MM Shorts 302: Lazy Talkers
The Scumbugs hail from Bergen in Norway (according to my Mum, who is from the north of that beautiful country, Bergen is so wet, babies are born holding umbrellas). Not so these guys. In fact it sounds like the Scumbugs were born with noisy electric guitars, a stack of 7″s by The Sonics and The Seeds and a whole bunch of attitude. This is fuck … Continue reading MM Shorts 301: The Scumbugs
Until a couple of days ago we were ignorant to the delights of folky singer-songwriter Pickering Pick and his new album titled (Tropic). Not so now. We’ve put that right, for (Tropic) is an album of rare beauty – warm, sensitive, thoughtful and restrained. A record that allows the music, no matter how gentle, even fragile at times, to have the space to spread its wings … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Pickering Pick
PIAPTK is one of our favourite DIY record labels and they are releasing a super limited run (just 30) of the new record from Tucson’s Golden Boots. DBX’n’SPF finds the band moving their twangy psych into weird blown out fuzz pop territory, just listen to lead off track Yuma below. Order the album here and you can also grab a Golden Boots sampler on a pay-what-you-want deal … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends >>> Golden Boots
Forget Dannii Minogue albums, Neon Night are a female fronted garage rock band from the North East of England. They write refreshingly straight-forward songs about sex and dickheads amongst other things; singing the blues in a punk rock fashion. There’s distinctively lusty vocals, catchy riffs and noisy boisterous drums. Try Never Been Kissed, which is a catchy-as-hell, scantily clad tune telling the tragic tale of a … Continue reading Introducing >>> Neon Night
Wrap your ears round Inpatients, the new single from Leicester three-piece post punk rock act We Three & The Death Rattle and then drop the tattered, bleeding remnants into the nearest recycling receptacle. Liking this a lot! Continue reading MM Shorts 300: We Three & The Death Rattle
Dinosaur Pile-Up will return in 2013, two years after the release of their critically acclaimed debut, Growing Pains. The band will release Nature Nurture, their second album, on May 13, and have this week made a free download of album track Lip Hook Kiss available online, intended as a taster of what’s to come. Continue reading New Album From Dinosaur Pile-Up
We’ve always had a soft spot for Black Rebel Motorcycle Club who have provided us with some top notch tunes over the years (it was just live they were awful!). Their sixth studio album, titled Specter At The Feast, is set for release March 19 on Abstract Dragon / Vagrant. The band has released Let The Day Begin, the first single from the new album. … Continue reading New from Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
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