New Video: Deradoorian – Monk’s Robes

Los Angeles-based art pop artist Angel Deradoorian had planned to release her new record Find The Sun on the 22nd May, but due to complications from COVID-19, the release date has been put back to the 18th September. All tour dates have also been postponed. Inspired by the freedom of Can and the singing style of Damo Suzuki as well as the influence of Indian … Continue reading New Video: Deradoorian – Monk’s Robes

Introducing >>> The Cool Greenhouse

We’ve become quite taken with the Cool Greenhouse’s new single Life Advice, the second from their forthcoming self-titled debut. It is skewed indie pop of the best kind – a lyrical jab at the kind of pithy, cure-all aphorisms that you find in your useless self-help books or scribble into the margins of your boring diary, and with which the kids seem to have developed … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Cool Greenhouse

Deathlist – You Won’t Be Here For Long

Deathlist is the lo-fi solo project of Portland-based multi-instrumentalist Jenny Logan, exploring themes of loss, grief, survival, love, and dreams in the vein of Mazzy Star, Suicide, and The Jesus and Mary Chain. Her new album You Won’t Be Here For Long is out on the 29th May and we have a couple of tracks for you: a stream of the woozy and sinister title … Continue reading Deathlist – You Won’t Be Here For Long

New Video: Elephant Stone – Fox On The Run

The gentle propulsion and dreamy hypnotics of Fox On The Run is one of our favourite tracks from Elephant Sun’s recently released album Hollow. Like the lovechild of classic solo era John Lennon and Yo La Tengo, it is a masterpiece of finely crafted psych-pop and the band have shared a new video for it, which you can watch below. You can also buy the album … Continue reading New Video: Elephant Stone – Fox On The Run

Mad Mackerel Recommends… Harmonica Lewinski

First up – great name! Harmonica Lewinski, are a five piece band out of Rochester NY. They say their sound has been described as “Tropical trash, greasy garage, dirty disco and party punk“. They have a new album titled Human BBQ! consisting of nine tasty tracks slathered in a kind of twisted, lo-fi psych-surf-pop that is 100% guaranteed to put a smile on your face and … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Harmonica Lewinski

Mad Mackerel Recommends… Girl Skin

We posted a video from Girl Skin back in 2018, and made mention then of their fragile chamber folk, but now they have released Shade is on the other side, an album that is deservedly picking up much praise and is a beautifully sparse and intimate record. Over the course of eleven tracks the album dips and shuffles from yearning and melancholy to lighter shades … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Girl Skin

Table Scraps on latest Burger Records Quarantunes Compilation

We’ve long been fans of Birmingham based garage rock trio Table Scraps and they are featured with a new song I Wanna Stay Home With U on Burger Records new compilation QUARANTUNES: Songs From Self​-​Isolation #2. It is the second in a seven volume series featuring over 140 different artists with all songs written and recorded by the artists over the past three weeks. All funds from sales … Continue reading Table Scraps on latest Burger Records Quarantunes Compilation

FEVA – I Wanna Know

FEVA are another new discovery for us and much like our two recent posts about TV Priest and Public Body, they inhabit the noisier end of the musical spectrum. Hailing from Newcastle, the four piece’s latest single (released yesterday on all digital platforms) is called I Wanna Know, and it is a snarling, scuzzy slice of anthemic rock that is urgent enough to strip the paint … Continue reading FEVA – I Wanna Know

Car Seat Headrest – Hollywood Video

Car Seat Headrest’s latest single from upcoming album Making A Door Less Open is called Hollywood. Check out the video for it here: a fun/riotous/terrifying take on Hollywood culture, with Will Toledo at his megaphone-screaming best, while the animated video sees his alter ego Trait taking a simultaneously exhilarating and terrifying haunted ride through Tinseltown. The album is released on the 1st May via Matador Records … Continue reading Car Seat Headrest – Hollywood Video

Public Body – Naughty On My Bike

Public Body are a new find for us, and yet another band off the seemingly endless Brighton production line. New single, the excellently named, Naughty On My Bike, is a stinging burst of wiry post-punk that takes aim at failing public services. There is lots to like about the track, which summons up influences from Gang of Four to the more contemporary Traams, but Public … Continue reading Public Body – Naughty On My Bike