Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: December 2013

Mad Mackerel's Best of December downloads 2013

As you might expect, December is a quiet month for new releases, especially non-festive ones, but we’ve still managed to come up with a mix of 16 top-notch downloads for you from our monthly postings.

As always, we have a couple of new tracks too, and you can also check out our new monthly mix page here, that has every single monthly mix we’ve posted available to browse – over 1,000 songs to download should you so desire.

This Frontier Needs Heroes – It’s A Lonely Kind Of Christmas
Melancholy, saxophone led festive Americana.

The Breedings – Big Blue Christmas
Partisan based festivities for the Kentucky Wildcats!

Simone Felice – Molly-O
Brilliant taste from forthcoming new album, includes guest vocals from the Lumineers.

The Explorers Club – Christmas Must Be Tonight
A yuletide free download from indie rockers.

Tiny Spiders – Nervy Hulk
Channels the aggression of classic noiseniks like Fugazi and the Jesus Lizard with the experimentation of Radiohead or Portishead.

Ned Roberts – Blues #6
Gorgeous finger-picked tune featuring guest vocals from Sarabeth Tucek.

Li-On Grevier – Cxristmas
Freaked-out festive psych.

Adrianne Lenker – Lighthouse
Mix of sweet folk and acoustic pop.

Brown Bird – Weathering
Welcome return of the gothic-folk duo.

Porno Mags – Get On Top
No-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners garage rock / proto-punk of a most pleasing kind.

Shallow End Divers – Fuzzy Caterpillar
Intriguing blend of rock ‘n’roll melding psychedelia, garage, soul, and blues to mighty good effect.

Blessed Feathers – Everyone I Love Is You
Pastoral folk with a sting in the tail.

Gorgeous Bully – Sinking Feeling
Self aware, self inflicted ditty celebrating misery, loneliness and self-loathing, and all perfectly moulded into a three minute grungey pop song.

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And to finish off we have tracks from Dead Waves with the grungey-punk of Instead, more quirky indie-pop from Big Sun, and finally folkster Zachary Cale’s cover of Brian Eno’s Golden Hours.