Australia’s Peter Bibby is back with his first new music since his 2018 LP Grand Champion, and this time he’s buoyed by the disorderly Dog Act band. The new offering, entitled Oceans, is a ferocious slice of modern garage rock that sounds like it’s cutting through your stereo speakers with a shiv. “Oceans started out as a little sea shanty-esque poem scrawled on a piece … Continue reading New Video: Peter Bibby’s Dog – Oceans
Lockdown has given us an opportunity to get a little more up to date with our posts and to catch up, a little, with some of the many, many tunes that come our way. Given it is Friday and a Bank Holiday here in the UK, we’ve rounded up a few tunes that we would have liked to have given a bit more time and … Continue reading Something For The Weekend…
Last year Australian singer-songwriter Dan Brodie released an excellent album titled Funerária do Vale which created its own heady, musical stew from blues, country, folk and even some rockabilly influences. One of the tracks, We’ll Never Drink (Again) is a gently mournful reflection on a relationship breakdown, and a standout on the album for us. There is a new video for the song, which uses footage taken … Continue reading New Video: Dan Brodie – We’ll Never Drink (Again)
Squid have released a new lyric video for their propulsive and experimental recent single Sludge, it is composed from fans’ footage of their isolation experiences. Working with visual artist Ali Amiri (who first uploaded a clip of isolation from Tehran) and Warp, Squid asked fans to submit a 360º video of wherever they were locked down to make a music video. Following cancelled shows and plans due … Continue reading New Video: Squid – Sludge
We have been eagerly waiting for Protomartyr’s fifth studio album Ultimate Success Today, but due to the pandemic, it has been put back from its original release date at the end of this month to the 17th July. They have also cancelled all their planned live shows. So to console ourselves we at least have a second track from the record to enjoy. Worm In … Continue reading Protomartyr – Worm In Heaven
Permanent Collection is the moniker Jason Hendardy has made music under since 2010. Having grown into a full band and released Newly Wed Nearly Dead back in 2012 and then EP No Void the following year, Permanent Collection went on hiatus from 2014 until now. Happily, new album Nothing Good Is Normal will get a release on June 19th and we have a couple of fuzzed-up, reverb … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Permanent Collection
Small Song is a single taken from Paddlefish’s new album Flyer. The album was written over the course of principal songwriter Owen Misterovich’s first year away from his hometown of Springfield, Missouri, and inspired by the disappointment he experienced after moving to Chicago at the age of seventeen, where he found himself braving the first harsh winter in a windowless dorm room in the heart … Continue reading Paddlefish – Small Song
LA duo Gum Country’s self-described “harsh twee” project began back in Vancouver as a series of lo-fi four track recordings made in an apartment, very quietly. After relocating, the pair recorded their debut full-length album Somewhere, which draws on influences from Sterelolab and The Replacements to The Magnetic Fields and Yo La Tengo. The record is out on the 19th June and the second single from … Continue reading Gum Country – Tennis (I Feel OK)
Turning into quite a day for new music… following tunes from Fontaines D.C., The Murder Capital and Cass McCombs, we’re delighted to discover news of a new album, Holy Smokes Future Jokes, and single, Magical Thinking, from longstanding MM stalwarts Blitzen Trapper. The track is a lovely slice of gentle Americana, a ruminative and lyrical meander around life and death that is deftly, and delicately, … Continue reading Blitzen Trapper Announce Holy Smokes Future Jokes & Share Magical Thinking
Singer-songwriter Cass McCombs has released a new standalone single The Wine of Lebanon, which has been done in partnership with Universal Audio and their new recording system LUNA. According to McCombs, “The Wine of Lebanon is a song that centers around the line: ‘what can I offer you?‘, it is about ritual offerings to the departed and wine as allegory for life.” Stream it below and watch … Continue reading Cass McCombs – The Wine of Lebanon
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