As the year draws to a close and the best of lists start to appear, here is our pick from a surprisingly good week of new releases. We have the first taste from Laura Marling’s new album, Besnard Lakes’ new 12′, and Milo Greene’s new EP as well new tracks from Grandaddy’s, Las Kellies and Syd Arthur’s recent releases and a track from indie rockers Sloppy Heads’ … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Our second festive offering comes from Grammy nominated folk troubadours The Lumineers. A reworking of the Elvis Presley festive classic, the band craft their own sweetly-tinged take on Blue Christmas, one of the holiday’s most endearing anthems. Listen below. Continue reading Christmas Is Coming… Here Are The Lumineers
We’ve not heard much from Timothy Showalter aka Strand of Oaks since 2014’s HEAL. That’s set to change with the announcement of a new album Hard Love, due in February on Dead Oceans. The first taste comes in the shape of Radio Kids, a typically fuzzy slab of indie rock that recalls the halcyon 90s in its crunchy guitar riffs and anthemic chorus. Listen below. … Continue reading New Album Coming From Strand Of Oaks
Following this year’s earlier two EP releases, Latigo and Misty Shrub, which both garnered much critical acclaim, LA band Wilderado have shared a new track, Talking About Love To A Cigarette. It is lovely, unhurried, rolling Americana tinged with just the right amount of pathos and longing. Stream it below. Continue reading MM Shorts 901: Wilderado
It is December, which means (decent) seasonal and festive songs are now fair game! So, to kick us off we have a new Christmas offering from Low, a band with an unparalleled pedigree when it comes to releasing seasonal aural delights. Their eight-song 1999 EP Christmas is one of best Christmas records ever. To coincide with the start of their UK & Ireland tour – on which they’re … Continue reading Christmas Is Coming…Here Are Low
Hailing from Pennsylvania, the marvellously monikered Jellyspine Jenkins makes homemade lo-fi indie-rock that has a dash of garage, a splash of glam, some nuggets of psych and a flavouring of folk. All these and more are contained in his latest release titled it’s gonna be ok/lets hide for a while – which reminds us of a more aggressive Mac DeMarco crossed with Ezra Furman and Lou … Continue reading MM Shorts 900: Jellyspine Jenkins
Dr. Dog have given us an early Christmas present with a surprise new album, Abandoned Mansion released yesterday via Bandcamp. The band did a song a day for two weeks and almost everything was tracked live – the results are classic soulful, Americana that the band are so good at and you can stream the record’s opening and closing tracks below. As an added incentive, … Continue reading New Album From Dr. Dog
Emmett Drueding featured on MM a fair few times in 2015. Recently he flew out to Los Angeles in March to record a full length album, drunkenly cutting ten tracks in four days – the end result was a new band Loverboy Wanderers and a record titled Let’s Hook. Big Boy is the first single off the album, and is a characterization of what it takes to … Continue reading Introducing >>> Loverboy Wanderers
Combining post-punk and psychedelia with a garage feel, Dooms Virginia (formerly known as Annie Girl and The Flight) have shared their new track Devour. Listen here. Continue reading MM Shorts 899: Dooms Virginia
Immediate, glorious and trippy in equal measure, Saint is the most captivating track on Cairobi’s new self-titled record out on 27th January via Some Other Planet Records; their most potent tab of bugged out psychedelia. Jangly percussion meets washed out vocals and a riff straight from the sands of the Middle East culminating in an atmosphere that will make you grin ear to ear. Give … Continue reading MM Shorts 898: Cairobi
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