Peggy Sue’s new album Choir Of Echoes will be out in January on Yep Roc Records. We were big fans of their previous release of noirish folk Acrobats and of the new record, the band says “Choir of Echoes is an album about singing. About losing your voice and finding it again. Voices keeping each other company and voices competing for space. The call and response … Continue reading New Peggy Sue Album
Videos for Sunday morning come with some Dangerous Blues from Miraculous Mule, and from a excellent collaboration by Less Love and Wondernaut we have the video for their track Like Shaking Hands. We also have orchestral indie pop from The Cabin Project and some classic Americana from Brandy Zdan who used to be one half of the the brilliant and sadly defunct Twilight Hotel and … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Miraculous Mule || Less Love & Wondernaut || The Cabin Project || Brandy Zdan
Sharing a collective love for David Bowie, Paul Simon, Talking Heads, Animal Collective and Edward Sharpe to name a few, Austin TX six-piece, Calliope Musicals are proud pedlars of psychedelic party folk, and Clouds On Fire is their new offering. A cacophony of noise designed to move and shake the innocent and the not-so-much, the poppy rush of the swoonsome Jeanie O is an engaging nod to the … Continue reading Introducing >>> Calliope Musicals
The slow core Americana of Lo Fine’s latest album Want Is A Great Need has slowly grown on us, infiltrating, seducing, overcoming any resistance with its dark melancholy and occasional sonically malevolent world view. Grab All We Need Is Hell below. You can get previous track Lie In White from our Round Up post here. Continue reading MM Shorts 464: Lo Fine
Radioactivity consists of Jeff Burke and Mark Ryan from Marked Men. The first of two albums from the band is due next week on Dirtnap Records. Radioactivity is a continuation of The Novice, Jeff Burke’s band while living in Japan. Jeff has since moved back to Texas, and out of respect to the Japanese lineup of the band, has changed the name to Radioactivity. Some … Continue reading Radioactivity: Locked In My Head
Montreal-based musician Neil Holyoak has released three albums under the name Holyoak. His latest release is an EP titled Silver Boys, out on the 5th November. It precedes a new full length Rags Across The Sun, due early 2014. The title track is a gently hallucinatory lullaby of equal parts indie folk and lyrical poetry. Listen/download below. Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Holyoak
Top notch videos to round off, and round up, the working week from Beach Fossils (trippy lo-fi), Such Hounds (ramshackle, punky Americana), Dark Bells (ethereal psychedelia), and The Head And The Heart (indie folk). . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Beach Fossils || Such Hounds || Dark Bells || The Head And The Heart
We are delighted to offer a premiere for Callow’s Philosophy from their forthcoming eight track release Blue Spells (which, by the way, includes our favourite song title of the year so far with closing track, Sex Moans for a Dead Man). Philosophy is a less experimental, a less frenetic, offering than their previous (excellent) single Strange. In fact it is, by some distance, some of the most gorgeously haunting … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Premiere: Callow’s Philosophy
Recently we posted Eagulls excellent cover version of the early Killing Joke nihilistic classic Requiem, and now the raucous slacker-punks have taken on another classic tune from the era with the Mekon’s seminal 1978 single Where Were You? With the potential to go horribly wrong, it could have been a dangerous choice, but as with Requiem, the Leeds five piece have absolutely nailed it…they’re rapidly … Continue reading Now Eagulls Cover The Mekons
Brisbane quartet Blank Realm will return with a new album, Grassed Inn, in January next year. It follows on from one of our favourite recent releases Go Easy, which we posted a number of tracks from earlier in the year. The new record is catchier, if lyrically darker, and our taster track Falling Down The Stairs has certainly veered away somewhat from the melancholy churn … Continue reading Blank Realm Announce New Album
