Birmingham quartet Swampmeat Family Band have announced their new album Muck! will see a release on the 5th June on vinyl and digital formats. Expert purveyors of a blend of uptempo garage rock and gentle Americana, which they meld it into a lush, cinematic whole, the new record sees them adding new layers and fresh flourishes to their trademark sound. Listen to a couple of tracks … Continue reading Swampmeat Family Band – Muck!
Belfast quartet Junk Drawer are new to us and have announced their debut album Ready For The House, out via Irish indie label Art For Blind. Channelling the likes of Pavement, Silver Jews, Beak> and more, the four-piece veer between slacker-rock, post-punk, krautrock and swirling psych across seven sprawling, chaotic vignettes of personal malady and recovery. Here are a couple of lyrically deft tracks to savour … Continue reading Introducing >>> Junk Drawer
Nottingham’s Do Nothing have shared the video for rousing track Contraband, taken from their excellent five track debut EP Zero Dollar Bill – out now on their own imprint Exact Truth. Their mix of skewed art-pop, full on acerbic rage and mordant black humour are all well to the fore in the video! The vinyl is long gone, but you can still buy a digital copy of … Continue reading New Video: Do Nothing – Contraband
Sci-Fi Romance is an alt-folk band from Los Angeles led by singer and multi-instrumentalist Vance Kotrla. Their dark, percussive take on folk, made haunting by the lyrical cello work of Jody Stark, offers a sonically apocalyptic version of folk music for uncertain times. We last posted about them seven years ago, but their latest EP The Rain Becomes A River is a collective suite of songs seeking peace … Continue reading Sci-Fi Romance Cover Led Zep
London-based indie-pop trio Dream Wife will release their new album So When You Gonna… this summer, and they have shared the album’s second single Hasta La Vista, accompanied by a music video compiled from childhood home footage. They have also launched a So When You Gonna… podcast series. Having always been outspoken about holding up other women and non-binary people in the arts and creative industries, … Continue reading New Video: Dream Wife – Hasta La Vista
We’re slowly catching up with a whole host of releases we missed, forgot or plain didn’t hear about. Aussie foursome Terry have featured plenty of times on MM, often making our year end best lists too. Having been pretty quiet lately (for them anyway) they popped back up in March with a typically catchy slab of punk-pop for the Sub Pop singles club. So, better … Continue reading Terry – Take The Cellphone
There is always a slight amount of trepidation that accompanies a new release from a much-loved band, especially one that has been quiet for a good long while. And there is always something a bit special when that trepidation turns to anticipation shortly into the first listen when you know they’ve not let you down, in fact far from it. So it is with the … Continue reading Return of the Roadside Graves
Almost five years ago we posted about Brighton’s Slum Of Legs, praising them for their brilliant, motorik punk and then, completely unnoticed by us, the band released their debut album at the end of March. Across ten tracks, the six-piece band are as fierce and as uncompromising as ever, melding defiant dissonance and danceable disco into a sonic whirlwind that somehow manages to be as … Continue reading Debut Album From Slum Of Legs
Discovered these two tracks via Soundcloud last night and liked them a lot. Ohmme are a Chicago based duo and have a new record Fantasize Your Ghost, coming out on the 5th June via Joyful Noise Recordings. 3 2 4 3 was the lead single from it with it’s brilliant opening, “Looked in the mirror the other day / Caught my reflection / My mouth had moved … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Ohmme
Chemtrails will release new album The Peculiar Smell Of The Inevitable on the 15th May via Pnkslm. It promises to be the band’s heaviest and wildest record yet, with their trademark big melodies and harmonies performed over a frenzied wall of raw guitar noise and glistening synths. Check out the excellent Suck My Mind, a frenzied gem of infectious garage-punk and acid-corroded new-wave. Order the … Continue reading Chemtrails – Suck My Mind
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