The Yetis is a band name that sounds like it should come straight from the classic flower-power era of the 60s, and this surf-pop quartet from Philadelphia certainly have a lovely vintage, retro feel to their sunny psych-infused garage jangle. Download/listen to Warm California and Girl, I Wanna Be Your Man. . . Continue reading MM Shorts 564: The Yetis
Not Kings is the title song of the forthcoming debut album from Candy Says, Oxford’s lo-fi recording collective, Camilla closes the record. The album is out on the 28th May and is a twelve song collection of off-kilter, experimental garage pop that defies categorisation (despite all our best efforts in this same sentence). It is quirky, sometimes jaunty, sometimes maudlin, often perplexing and undeniably affecting. Listen … Continue reading Candy Says – Not Kings
Yorkshire psych-rockers and spacedust cowboys Formes have a new single, Be Your Own God, due out on the 2nd June. Distorted guitars weave their way skywards over crunchy percussion and a ominous echoing vocal that promises nothing good is going to come of things. Have a listen. . Continue reading New Single From Formes
In August, Seattle based no-wave noiseniks Stickers will release their debut album Swollen via End of Time Records. The first single is the pulsating, churning menace of Outlet, which carries a palpable sense of unease, and which we are obviously delighting in! It bodes extremely well for the album. Strem/download it here. Pre-order Swollen here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 563: Stickers
Who Let The Devil is to be the next single from The Fresh & Onlys, and is taken from their forthcoming long player House of Spirits. It might well be our favourite track we’ve heard from them to date, a creepy ode to demonic possession and Old Nick himself that is borne on a queasy, hypnotic rhythm and perfectly counterbalanced by Tim Cohen’s affecting and paranoid … Continue reading New Single From The Fresh & Onlys
Watch the excellent official video for Sharon Van Etten’s Every Time The Sun Comes Up, one (of many) standout tracks on her new album Are We There. . . . Continue reading Video: Sharon Van Etten – Every Time The Sun Comes Up
Chris Devotion & The Expectations are more than a little fond of a bit of savage rock’n’roll and a pert frolic with the classic pop song. Take Don’t You Call On Me, just under two and a half-minutes of power chords and forceful riffing that evokes the 70s heyday of aggressive melodies and distorted guitars, with a pleasing contemporary twist. Part confessional, part peacock strut, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Chris Devotion & The Expectations
Almost exactly a year ago we posted a video by Nathan K. for his plaintive track Bob Seger, and so it was good to discover from an MM reader than he now has a new album, Methodist Girls due for release on the 8th July. The album opens with Sloppy Love, a softly strummed, resigned, woozy folk hymnal that reveals the sorrow at its core … Continue reading New Album From Nathan K.
We are loving Insignificance, a track of warm, unhurried, organic folk that is as mellow as they come. It is the first single from Matt Kivel’s forthcoming album Days of Being Wild, which is out on the 8th July via Woodsist Records. Listen below, and pre-order the album from iTunes here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 562: Matt Kivel
We’ve got no idea what to make of this, other than this track from Sydney’s Spookyland has a peculiar rawness and melancholy that is impossible to resist. Vocalist Marcus Gordon has a unique voice that matches the twisting cacophony of harmonica, folk guitar and reverberating feedback of the song (and the video) perfectly. . . . Continue reading Video: Spookyland – The Silly Fucking Thing
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