Crippled Shining Blues is the excellently named new single to be taken from London-based psych-folk outfit The Hanging Stars’ new album Over the Silvery Lake (due out on 11 March via The Great Pop Supplement and Crimson Crow). The track is wonderfully rhythmical, replete with a wandering bassline and complimentary riffs from both guitar and pedal steel. The sweetness of the verse is complimented by … Continue reading New Single From The Hanging Stars
New Zealand duo The Renderers play languid, seeping music with its guitar swells and swirls, menacing vocal delivery and a loose structure that threatens dissemblance at every turn. New album In The Sodium Light is out on the 26th February and we have the excellent pastoral psych of Seaworthy from it to share with you. Continue reading MM Shorts 814: The Renderers
We love Parquet Courts. Here are a couple of new tracks from much anticipated, upcoming long player Human Performance, which they performed on Fordham University’s WFUV radio station recently. They are both awesome, and Dust is already a particular favourite of the year so far. Watch them both below. Continue reading New From Parquet Courts
Well here we go again with another collection of ten top notch new tunes picked from the past seven days, purely for your edification and enjoyment. Father John Misty – Maybe, Sweet One, You Won’t Have Nightmares Tonight Rats On Rafts – Some Velvet Morning (Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood cover) The Raveonettes – The World Is Empty (Without You) Frankie Cosmos – Sinister Summer … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
The midweek cocktail mission passed without incident or vomit. We have evolved into respectable pina colada swigging socialists in more ways than one. But just try saying ‘pina colada’ without ‘getting caught in the rain’. Well if I have to suffer, I don’t see why you shouldn’t too… Tomorrow, I’m heading to Lahn-don. Travelling alone by train offers so many possibilities, mainly because I have … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday: 29th January
Dogs is the latest track to be revealed from emerging LA-based band Bird Dog’s forthcoming debut EP Misty Shrub. Give it a spin below, it is another fine example of their warm, synth-tinged Americana that feels like it has just time-travelled from the canyons of early 70’s country-rock. Continue reading Another From Bird Dog
Art Is Hard, one of our favourite labels have announced their 2016 singles club – the pin pal club. Each month for the rest of 2016 they will be releasing a new and exclusive single from the likes of Two White Cranes, Dirtygirl, Small Wonder and many more. Each single will be released as a 1″ enamel pin badge complete with backing card and download code. You … Continue reading Art Is Hard Singles Club – Two White Cranes
Mount Moriah have shared Baby Blue, a gorgeous alt-country slow-burner, and it comes accompanied by a beautiful new video that aims to depict the quiet dignity in everyday life through a series of extended shots: including a man sharing a t-shirt with his newborn child, a woman sat on a doorstep eating pizza in the small hours of the morning, a man playing on his Gameboy … Continue reading New Video: Mount Moriah – Baby Blue
New Cowboy Builders are a Bristol based band originally from South Wales that have put out a couple of EPs in the last few years independently, and have an album coming out soon on Bath’s Killing Moon Records. The first track released from it is the intriguingly titled Top Jokes Only A Receptionist Would Get, which is a satisfyingly brutal slab of noisy, confrontational punk rock. … Continue reading MM Shorts 813: New Cowboy Builders
The new EP from Nate Leavitt & The Elevation is called Someone Send A Signal, and can best be described as ghost folk – as if the spirits of Neil Young, Wilco and Butch Walker met up late one night for a secret recording session down in Muscle Shoals. Intense, moody and blending elements of roots, Americana and rock, it is the convergence of Leavitt’s musical … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Nate Leavitt & The Elevation
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