MM faves Grass House have a brand new video for their track A Thousand Generators, taken from last year’s excellent debut long player A Sun Full And Drowning. . . Continue reading Video: Grass House – A Thousand Generators
Giving us a hat-trick of cracking Americana-flavoured posts today are longstanding MM faves Strand Of Oaks (aka Timothy Showalter) and a track from forthcoming album HEAL, which will see a release on the 24th June via Dead Oceans. However, Goshen ’97 is a pretty radical departure from the introspective, occasionally surreal, and unique folk tales that defined his previous releases. This time we have a full-on, incendiary, … Continue reading New From Strand Of Oaks
Perhaps a perfect companion and counterpoint to our earlier post on the Delines, is this relaxed, undulating slice of Americana from Horse Thief. Little Dust is taken from upcoming album Fear In Bliss (from which we’ve already given you the brilliant I Am The Bear), and sets expansive, chiming guitars behind an rolling, easy-going vocal that we’re guessing is destined to become a live singalong of … Continue reading Horse Thief – Little Dust
Colfax is the title of the forthcoming album by The Delines, consisting of eleven tracks mostly penned by Richmond Fontaine front man and acclaimed novelist Willy Vlautin. The band also include RF stickman Sean Oldham, Decemberists’ keyboardist Jenny Conlee-Drizos, and Amy Boone on vocals. The songs are a perfect vehicle for Boone’s stunning voice – taking Vlautin’s lyrical tales of the downbeat and the downtrodden, the … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… The Delines
Here is another taste from Chad VanGaalen’s upcoming album Shrink Dust, out via Sub Pop on the 29th April. Listen to the surreally brilliant, campfire warble of Monster. Pre-order the record here. . Continue reading Chad VanGaalen – Monster
Gaoler’s Daughter who have made regular appearances in MM postings over the past few years have announced a new eight track record via Bandcamp titled Split Like Cells, and used the same forum to also announce that the band are no more. Assuming it is no cruel April Fools hoax, then we shall be mighty sad to bid them farewell – their brand of folk inflected, … Continue reading Gaoler’s Daughter – Split Like Cells And Split For Real
As well as releasing Sunbathing Animal as a single for Record Store Day, Parquet Courts have also announced their forthcoming album will carry the same title. Listen to the single/title track below – it is a stormer. The album is out in June. . . Continue reading Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal
My Silver Lining is the first taste from First Aid Kit’s forthcoming album Stay Gold, which is out on the 10th June. It is another brilliant example of their rootsy, twangy Americana shot through with just enough orchestral grandeur and strings to give the song a rich beauty that is impossible to resist. “I’ve woken up in a hotel room, my worries as big as the … Continue reading First Aid Kit – My Silver Lining
We love Southern Comfort the film, we love Southern Comfort the drink, and now we love Southern Comfort the Orwells song. It ha been around for a while, but this is the first studio stream of the swaggering, infectious lead off track from the much anticipated debut Disgraceland, out on the 3rd June. Listen here. . Continue reading The Orwells – Southern Comfort
New Zealand based roots duo Tattletale Saints’ new record How Red Is The Blood is an album that joins the beautiful simplicity of American roots music with hard-biting songs that echo a generation’s distress. Check out Kathleen, which is perhaps the catchiest song on the album and sounds like a lovely heartfelt folk song written for young romantics, but the song flips into deep darkness on … Continue reading Introducing >>> Tattletale Saints
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