Moor Hound is a folk project from Bloomington, Indiana’s Steve Marino. He writes haunting and beautiful acoustic songs fit for summer nights and rainy days. New EP Green is an intimate six song album – the tracks shine with the nostalgia, melancholy, and earnestness of living your 20s in a dusty Midwest college town. Listen to I Went South from the EP. Continue reading MM Shorts 920: Moor Hound
BAIT’s brilliant debut track I’m Still Here was so good it made it into our end of year best of lists. Now, with an insistent hybrid of wonky electronics and angular post-punk (that tips the hat to Killing Joke, Death in Vegas, and The Fall), we get to hear Push The Elephant, the debut single proper from the anonymous audio/visual artist. Great stuff – stream it here. Continue reading BAIT – Push The Elephant
Back in November we enjoyed the Vulgarians playing in support of an excellent TRAAMS gig in Oxford. The Hull based band have announced details of a new EP, the Philip Larkin referencing Almost-Instinct, Almost True (due out May 5th), and have shared the first single from the EP, Hands Around The Waste. The single finds the humour in a taxi drivers’ dark stories, incongruously mixing monumental choruses with sparse verses, … Continue reading Vulgarians – Almost-Instinct, Almost True EP
Cabbage’s twisted and ferocious post-punk shot through with righteous bile and an amphetamine black humour makes them our favourite band of the moment. Yesterday we included their new single Gibraltar Ape in Part 1 of our Best of the Week Round Up, and here is the b-side – the equally good Save The Human. Continue reading Cabbage – Save The Human
Here is Part 2 of our round up of the best of the week’s releases. In this batch of gems we have a new single from prolific garage-punk Ty Segall, another taster from the Jesus & Mary Chain’s long awaited new record and a brilliant track from Mark Lanegan’s recently announced album Gargoyle. The Tablets offer up an excellent new wave inspired single and there is … Continue reading Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 2)
So many good new tunes released this week – fourteen and counting – that we’ve had to split them into two posts. Here are the first seven including a brilliant new single from the UK’s new saviour of indie guitar rock, Cabbage. Like a cross between Fat White Family, The Fall, and the Amazing Snakeheads. We have the new single from Samantha Crain’s upcoming album … Continue reading Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 1)
Here is volume 27 of Nickel in the Jukebox – a semi regular roundup of new (and some not so new) tunes for your listening pleasure. Within these ten tunes we have frantic noise punk, classic country, slow-burning folk, indie guitars and fuzzy pastoral psychedelia and plenty more besides. Listen and decide… hit or miss? Tangerines – Peckham Boys [RIYL: Art-punk, Television, Modern Lovers] … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 27)
It has been a while since we’ve heard from Americana four-piece Cat Meat and so it was a welcome surprise to get details of a new track, Caught By The Richochet in our in-box. It is a mid-tempo slice of alt-Country with just the right amount of longing and regret. I recalled you in these four walls When pollen swelled my eyes The morning light on ivory … Continue reading MM Shorts 919: Cat Meat
We loved the recent track Have You Ever Seen Peaches Growing on a Sweet Potato Vine? from Jake Xerxes Fussell’s second full-length album, What in the Natural World, which like its predecessor explores traditional songs from the American South, due out on 31st March via Paradise of Bachelors. Now, the Durham, North Carolina singer and guitarist has shared Furniture Man, a desperate tale of poverty, dispossession, and imminent … Continue reading Jake Xerxes Fussell Shares Furniture Man
Longtime MM fave, Marika Hackman has announced a brand new single Boyfriend (out 31st March) – and it is quite a departure from her previous offerings. The introspection and self-consciousness have been swept away, and instead we get the sound of liberation, reinvention, spontaneity and collective joy. This is some serious feral female energy at work. Boyfriend is a muscular post-punk call to arms that packs a pretty … Continue reading New Single From Marika Hackman
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