Hurt Valley, the enigmatic folk-pop project of Los Angeles’ Brian Collins, has shared a new single from his forthcoming debut album Glacial Pace. Due out on the 6th December, the record is inspired by Death Valley and also features the previously shared single Apartment Houses. It is available for pre-order from Bandcamp here. But for now, the pastoral twang of opening track Geology Dreamer is a delight … Continue reading More From Hurt Valley
Darker Time, Darker Space is part 2 of Elephant Stone’s Hollow song suite. The Montreal psych-rockers say, “with their planet on the brink of extinction, humanity scrambles to find a way to survive. It is a dark time and they look to the darkness of space as their salvation.” Pretty much sounds right up their street! Listen below. And here’s part 1 in case you … Continue reading Elephant Stone – Hollow Song Suite
Fusing influences ranging from psychedelia, indie and shoegaze, whilst soaking up the South African sounds around them, Cape Town’s HONEYMOAN have recently signed to Communion Records for the release of their second EP, Weirdo, and have shared the first single Still Here. Listen below to the Bloc Party inspired drums combining with heavy washed out guitar to drive the distorted pop hooks up a notch. Catch … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… HONEYMOAN
Lenox Hill is the second track to be shared from Brighton’s post-punkers Thyla. It comes from their forthcoming EP Everything At Once, which is out on the 24th January. A sweet, almost pop, vocal sits atop a thrumming rhythm and some crunchy guitars and the whole lot combines into a very tasty anthem that just begs for a indie-kid singalong. Stream it here. Continue reading Thyla – Lenox Hill
Wounded Bird is a male/female harmony-focused duo from Denver, Colorado (and not to be confused with (sadly) long gone MM indie-surf faves Two Wounded Birds). Latest single Fall in Line is a sweetly stripped back affair of classic Americana, featuring acoustic guitar, fiddle and pedal steel along with their signature vocal harmonies. Stream it here. Continue reading Wounded Bird – Fall In Line
Witch Hazel is the latest single from Historian. It is taken from upcoming long player Distractions, due for release on the 17th January. It is a frenetic, poetic fuzzy slice of indie-punk on which the LA based band unleash their signature shamanistic Leonard Cohen vocals over a Velvet Underground meets Deerhunter style rocker. Stream it here. Continue reading Historian – Witch Hazel
It has been more than three years since we posted Port Juvee’s track Double Vision in one of our gone (and probably forgotten) Nickel in the Jukebox round ups. Today we have Hope to Lose for you, a new single (and video) taken from upcoming long player Motion Control, scheduled for release at the end of February. It is another slab of typically urgent and tense post-punk … Continue reading Port Juvee – Hope To Lose
Formed by friends in 2014 during a summer spent obsessing about the Sarah Records catalog, Michigan band Failed Flowers quickly developed into a shadowy, high-speed pop vehicle. Drawing at first from the wistful sighs of Sarah, the group grew more of an edge as they progressed, evoking elements of C86 granularity and shoegaze blur. The original lineup of bassist Erin Davis, drummer Miles Haney, and … Continue reading Failed Flowers – Faces 7″
Delighted to get the news that Taxi is the first single to be taken from the new album, A Northern View, from MM fave Arborist. A stand-out, jolt-from-the-blue, set-piece, Taxi is a spoken word epic story inspired by Arab Strap, Belle and Sebastian and James Yorkston, who have made the droll Scottish storyteller’s delivery a constant. As singer-songwriter Mark McCambridge explains, “I wanted to do … Continue reading Return of Arborist
In celebration of Halloween, watch Death Valley Girls’ new video for Wear Black, which is taken from their excellent 2018 release Darkness Rains via Suicide Squeeze Records. Their world is a fusion of feral proto-punk, ‘70s scuzz dirges, and third eye mysticism and we love it…. Continue reading New Video: Death Valley Girls – Wear Black
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