After a too long hiatus, we’ve resurrected our best of the month mix capturing our favourite tunes from October’s posts, plus a couple of new tracks too. So more than 25 songs to discover…dive in! The September Girls – Veneer Dark-hearted pop smothered in drenched feedback . God Damn – Horus A red-hot burning molten pot of pop hooks and grinding, bludgeoning riffs and rhythms. . … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: October 2014
A while ago we posted the richly tender and melancholic As Old As The Grave from the debut EP by singer-songwriter Eaves, out on Heavenly on the 10th November. Now we have the other two tracks that make up the limited edition 7″ and digital release. Have a listen to the stark piano and vocals of Timber and the acoustic guitar led Alone In My Mind … Continue reading More From Eaves
Following a stream of highly regarded demos, singer-songwriter Eaves is a new signing to Heavenly Records. The beautifully considered and restrained As Old As The Grave comes from his debut EP and with its rich, tender sound certainly makes good on all the praise. Have a listen. . Continue reading Eaves – As Old As The Grave
We featured Manchester folk-duo Hawker Reunion on our recent post about their single with nourish folk singer Elle Mary (here) and their excellent new four-track EP Small Hands Will Lift A Dark Heart is now available for free from Bandcamp here. Check out Where It Goes below, and then go grab the whole thing. . Continue reading MM Shorts 614: Hawker Reunion
Our favourite ambient folkies Arborea have announced their only official release for 2014. It is a one-off digital single that is a acoustic-slide/vocal duet arrangement of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s classic choogler Bad Moon Rising. Have a listen below and it is available via the usual digital suspects or can be ordered via Bandcamp here. Sales will help fund a new album so make sure you buy a … Continue reading Arborea Rework Bad Moon Rising
English folk singer Maz O’Connor follows up her critically-acclaimed summer album This Willowed Light with a double A-side single featuring two beautiful album tracks, London Lights and Nightcap, and a previously-unreleased recording of a new song – A Winter’s Blues. Have a listen. . Continue reading New Single From Maz O’Connor
John Southworth’s latest video, Ode To The Morning Sky, features the singer-songwriter wandering through fields and neighborhoods as a vintage clad football player, reflecting on his childhood through clips of home videos and family photos. Piano driven, and featuring his ever so slightly melancholic vocals, it is the latest track from his forthcoming double LP, Niagara, out September 30th on Tin Angel Records. . . . Continue reading New Video: John Southworth – Ode To The Morning Sky
We’re thoroughly enjoying this sweetly gentle slice of dreamy pastoral folk from Field Division. Faultlines is the debut single from the Des Moines duo and precedes a planned long-player, which on this evidence will be well worth getting hold of… I see you walking through the valley Heading straight to the ravine Where in the hell do you think you’re going, Nobody yet knows your … Continue reading Field Division – Faultlines
Wooden Wand hits the road on the back of his recent album Farmer’s Corner, another outstanding release, which came out in May on Fire Records. For most of these shows, he’ll be headlinging and playing solo, performing songs from the new album as well as from his extensive back catalogue. He has also announced a couple of shows with Jolie Holland, one is a sold out … Continue reading Wooden Wand – Uneasy Peace
The ethos and energy of punk rock first inspired Steve Palmer to pick up a guitar, but it was his discovery of the music of John Fahey in 2012 that renewed and deepened that interest. For his first full-length, Unblinking Sun, he filters cosmic krautrock, drone, and psychedelic improvisation through the vernacular of the American fingerpicked folk tradition. We have a couple of excellent tracks from it to stream or download, Cassini and Six … Continue reading Steve Palmer – Unblinking Sun
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