Happyness has just released the video for their new single, the live favourite, A Whole New Shape, in anticipation of their first US tour within the coming weeks. The single is out on the 30th March. Watch it here. . . Continue reading New Video: Happyness – A Whole New Shape
Giant Sand, the iconic and influential band fronted by luminary Howe Gelb, celebrates 30 years of freewheeling and ever-evolving music making on new album, Heartbreak Pass, out on the 5th May via New West Records. The album spans founder Gelb’s far-reaching career and mixes the rollicking nature of the band’s 1985 debut, Valley of Rain, with the dusty alt-folk, desert-rock and jazzy lounge-piano explorations of his … Continue reading New Giant Sand Album
Aside from hitting the skins for Quilt and playing keys for Woods, John Andrews also has his hand in a whole host of other creative projects from story animation to releasing home recordings via tape. Bit By The Fang is his debut solo release via Woodsist (the Yawns are an imaginary backing band), and if the evidence of I’ll Go To Your Funeral (If You Go … Continue reading John Andrews & The Yawns – I’ll Go To Your Funeral (If You Go To Mine)
Here is our regular gathering up of some of this week’s best new releases for you. Enjoy. 1. Daughn Gibson – Shatter You Through 2. Laura Marling – Strange 3. This Is The Kit – Silver John 4. Bully – I Remember 5. Tame Impala – Let It Happen 6. Adam Torres – Dusty Wing Spirit 7. Lower Dens – Ondine 8. Mikal Cronin – ii) … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
London based four piece Fossa will release their debut EP Sea of Skies – four tracks of intimate, lush indie with shades of Grizzly Bear, Talk Talk and The Antlers. Whilst being bold enough with the instrumentation and occasional skittering beats to defy the obvious paths, at the heart of each track is a powerful sense of melody and lead single Five Days is a masterpiece of … Continue reading Introducing >>> Fossa
Unveiling the second track of their double A-side single release, the curiously named Orlando Seale & The Swell have just shared All Of The Dogs, which is to be released alongside Filthy Hope on 23rd March. Euphoric, atmospheric and tinged with darkness. Give them both a spin. . . Continue reading MM Shorts 676: Orlando Seale & The Swell
Bloodshot Records are carrying on their annual Record Store Day tradition with a split release from two of their brightest stars, Lydia Loveless and Cory Branan, respectively paying tribute to The Purple One himself. On purple vinyl, of course. Side A sees Lydia Loveless and her band taking I Would Die 4 U, The Revolution’s 1984 Purple Rain standout, to a whole new stratosphere with vocals of … Continue reading Lydia Loveless Covers Prince For RSD
Leeds trio, Dinosaur Pile-Up are back and streaming the almost-title-track from their forthcoming third album Eleven Eleven. Titled 11:11, the single will be released via SO Recordings on 18th May and is undoubtedly their biggest and heaviest offering to date. Listen to some bone-splintering riffage here. . Continue reading New Single From Dinosaur Pile-Up
Lead singer/songwriter of The Corner Laughers, Karla Kane wears cat-eye glasses, plays ukulele and goes birdwatching, but thankfully they are no stereotype hipster-twee band. Instead you get an intriguing mixture of bookish and badass on forthcoming album Matilda Effect and an epic cast of characters including Cleopatra, Alice in Wonderland, astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, and Martha, the world’s last passenger pigeon. Wistful and wry, barbed and sly – … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Corner Laughers
Sufjan Stevens is sharing Should Have Known Better from his forthcoming album Carrie & Lowell, which is picking up some mighty fine pre-release reviews. Thematically the album’s eleven songs address life and death, love and loss, and the artist’s struggle to make sense of the beauty and ugliness of love. The album is named for Stevens’ mother and stepfather and is a (welcome) return to … Continue reading Sufjan Stevens – Should Have Known Better
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