We’re pretty taken with this track, Above My Ground by Landlady. It has been around for a while, but now newly signed to Hometapes, it is getting a new lease of life ahead of a summer album. It is described as a ‘disarming singalong anthem‘, which seems pretty accurate to us, though there is something distinctly oddball about it too, in a good way of … Continue reading Landlady – Above My Ground
Broken Twin will release her debut album May through ANTI- on the 29th April. It is a timely post for us as we are feeling particularly well disposed to all things Danish at the moment and Broken Twin is the synonym of 25-year-old Danish songwriter Majke Voss Romme. She turned plenty of heads (and ears) with her debut single in November Sun Has Gone (see our … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Broken Twin
Spoiling you with five excellent videos this morning. I don’t know where you are, but we’ve got yet another day of dank, dreary, drizzly rain and I need something to brighten up my Friday. So, contrast and compare scrappy indie jangle from Such Hounds, gentle intricate harmonies from The Sea The Sea, tough, catchy garage from The Coathangers, fevered, intense pop from Rare Monks, and … Continue reading Videos of the Day: The Coathangers || Reverend Horton Heat || The Sea The Sea || Such Hounds || Rare Monk
With a voice that could sing the phone book and still seem sultry, the wonderful Jolie Holland returns with a new album Wine Dark Sea on the 20th May. The first taste is this “joyous slice of deconstructed r&b” called Waiting For The Sun. . Continue reading Jolie Holland – Waiting For The Sun
The Lowest Pair – sweet double banjos. Grampa Mackerel would’ve loved it! Download Living Is Dying and Oh Susannah and Trying To Feel At Home from the album 36¢. Marvellous! . . [Click through for free downloads] . Continue reading MM Shorts 526: The Lowest Pair
A little while ago we ran a 5:1 Interview with reverb loving surf-rocking band Whalers who will imminently be releasing their new album Submarine Sun. In it, they nominated Chrome Ocean as one song of theirs they’d like to still be played in fifty years time. Now they’ve shared it with the world as the second single from the album and you can hear exactly why they chose … Continue reading Whalers – Chrome Ocean
Los Angeles-based Line & Circle arrived on the national scene in 2012 after releasing acclaimed debut 7″ single Roman Ruins / Carelessness on White Iris Records. Last spring, they returned to the studio to begin recording new material developed during the band’s two recent tours. There, with nods to early 4AD dream pop and chiming I.R.S. Records-era guitar rock, the group pared the songs to … Continue reading Line & Circle – Mine Is Mine
Some excellent videos, mainly featuring deserts, suns and tribes oddly in one way or another, to start the day from the brilliant Desert Mountain Tribe, A Mini Tribe (who feature members of Sleepy Sun, Bella Vista and Són Boom and have a stripped back, gloriously spartan version of Nico’s These Days), The Big Sun, and finally New Desert Blues. . . . [Click through for free download] . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Desert Mountain Tribe || A Mini Tribe || The Big Sun || New Desert Blues
After two years, two EPs, and countless demos, Halifax, Nova Scotia’s Nap Eyes are releasing their first LP on Plastic Factory Records titled Whine of the Mystic. Lead track No Man Needs To Care is an unadulterated gem of jaunty, infectious indie rock that overcomes any reservations through sheer force of will. It just might be the most refreshingly straightforward record we’ve heard for a good … Continue reading MM Shorts 525: Nap Eyes
We’ve posted a few tracks already from New Electric Ride’s excellent Balloon Age album – a heady, swirling and infectious trip into UK psychedelia of the grooviest kind. The latest track to get an airing is Marquis De Sade, which as the song develops, possibly features the catchiest riff on the whole record – and that’s saying something. Listen below. Order the album here. . Continue reading Another From New Electric Ride
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