Rising from the smoking embers of several leading Merseyside acts, newcomers Pure Joy serve up hot, psych-heavy, filthy garage-rock candy tinged with patches of late-60s American psychedelia, buzzy Motor City riffage, and decades of pop, ranging from the pastoral sounds of Ray Davies to the vivid expansiveness of Kurt Vile and the Antipodean warmth of Tame Impala. Their debut album, Bang Flower is released on the 1st … Continue reading Introducing >>> Pure Joy
London based kiwi-indie rockers Lunar Pupil have recently released a foot-stomping new single entitled Pale Blue Skies. Listen below – a mighty fine mix of grunge tinged indie rock with more than a head nodding acquaintance with classic psych-blues. Continue reading MM Shorts 821: Lunar Pupil
Long standing MM faves The Limiñanas have announced a new album and shared a new single, the dreamily hypnotic Garden of Love, featuring Peter Hook. Malamore is the title of the French duo’s new album, and it is is rooted in garage-punk, the Nuggets compilations and early Stooges and Suicide albums meets the Sixties film genres of Commedia All’italiana and French Nouveau Vague, while still sounding only like The … Continue reading The Limiñanas Announce New Album
The Hanged Man is the project of Rebecka Rolfart, who first made a new for herself in Swedish indie pop combo Those Dancing Days and Vulkano, before striking out on her own. As The Hanged Man she released a debut single First Time Dreaming in September 2014, which was quickly followed by the acclaimed debut EP First Quarter Moon in November the same year. Now, over … Continue reading New EP From The Hanged Man
Ghost Blue is the latest single from Sparrows Gate. Singer-songwriter Zebedee Zaitz and his band of outsiders venture to new horizons with two new tracks of surrealist folk-rock that roll in like a cloud of coastal fog, and paint in faded colours. Listen as the violin weaves in and out of the melody like an ancient gypsy folk song and crystalline acoustic guitars play in harmony, while the bass throbs … Continue reading MM Shorts 820: Sparrows Gate
Chrome Pony are currently touring the UK in support of Cage the Elephant and will release new album Past Lives on February 19th. They have made their name on the back of some sonically fine psych influenced slacker rock, and this track from the album is another fine example of what they’re capable of – listen to Ragged Child below. Continue reading MM Shorts 819: Chrome Pony
Austin’s My Golden Calf release their new LP, Perfume Brute, on the 26th of this month. Listen to Young Pioneers, another excellent slice of alt-country tinged indie rock with just the right amount of rough-edged authenticity. Continue reading My Golden Calf – Young Pioneers
Here is another track from Heron Oblivion, a new San Francisco combo consisting of some of the leading figures in the psych / folk scene, including Meg Baird of Espers and members of Sic Alps, Six Organs of Admittance, Howlin’ Rain and Feral Ohms to name a few. Together they combine West Coast psychedelic rock with English Folk roots, and on the evidence of Your Hollows, … Continue reading MM Shorts 818: Heron Oblivion
Here is the selection from the Mad Mackerel jury for our choice cuts from the past seven days. Enjoy. Black Mountain – Mothers Of The Sun Rogue Wave – What Is Left To Solve The Castillians – Come What May Witching Waves – Pitiless La Sera – I Need An Angel Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – Astonished Man Purling Hiss – My … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
An outcast of the D.C. suburbs, Dan Penta arrived in New York City in 1999, quickly becoming a staple of the anti-folk scene. But while friends like Regina Spektor, the Moldy Peaches, and Langhorne Slim went on to earn acclaim, Dan remained unknown. Creating in obscurity, he handmade CDRs for the consecrated few who, through the years, came to form a tiny congregation. Many years … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Jagged Leaves
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