1. Titus Andronicus – Stranded (On My Own) 2. Cat Meat – Vog 3. Naomi Punk – Firehose Face 4. Goat – Hide From The Sun 5. The John Steel Singers – Common Thread . . . . . . Continue reading Five Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Montreal’s The Barr Brothers have announced details of their new album, Sleeping Operator, out on October 6th, through Secret City Records. The thirteen songs explore the far reaches of folk, laced with West African influences, hypnotic modernist pulsing and beyond. Yet while the record extends into cinematic and other-worldly territories, it still manages to maintain a campfire-like intimacy throughout. Listen to the brisk, talking-blues influenced album track … Continue reading New Album From The Barr Brothers
Lowpines, the new solo project from Oli Deakin of fuzz-pop outfit Bear Driver, assimilates a love for the likes of Bill Callahan, Sparklehorse and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy into crackling, featherlight confessionals. This new track, Call Off The Hunt, is the latest single (out July 7). Have a listen to it and Talk Not, and download the full Avenue Blues EP for free from Bandcamp here. . … Continue reading MM Shorts 577: Lowpines
We’ve posted about the sludgy, gritty stoner-punk of the charmingly monikered Vomitface a couple of times, and now they’ve further upped the ante by taking on Kate Bush’s Sat In Your Lap. Have a listen. . Continue reading MM Shorts 574: Vomitface
Previously we’ve just offered Best of the Month postings with downloads, but that excludes so many quality songs we’ve decided to just post our favourite tracks – irrespective of whether they are free to download or not. If you like them add them to your Spotify playlists or do the old fashioned thing and download them from iTunes, Bandcamp, or wherever. Anyway, with a bit … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Months: March – May (Part 1)
Six years in the making, SixToes have announced their second album The Morning After. They have also shared a new, brilliantly animated video for the track Hawthorns. It serves as the album’s harrowing peak, with the lyrics dealing with a female’s abusive relationship with first her father, and then spouse. The album also features the single Low Guns, with vocals from Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan. Watch … Continue reading Video: SixToes – Hawthorns
1. Old Crow Medicine Show – Brushy Mountain Conjugal Trailer 2. Kult Country – Trembling Moon 3. Dust From 1000 Yrs – Party Song 4. Bonnie “Prince” Billy & The Cairo Gang – We Love Our Hole 5. Beach Day – All My Friends Were Punks . . . . . . Continue reading Five Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Work has been more than hectic lately, but conversely that seems to have coincided with listening to more music too – maybe the extra time sat on the train or in the car? Who knows or cares, but it does mean a collection of mighty fine tunes for you to welcome home the weekend too… We kick off with a brilliant track of hypnotic garage-psych … Continue reading Time For A Friday Round Up
While we’ve started each weekend to pick out five (good) tracks that have been setting the internet ablaze during the week, there are still lots of tunes that are not getting the attention their quality deserves. Here for a Sunday morning is a few that we’ve picked out…the spectral, desert folk of Jess Williamson, from the ashes of Abe Vigoda comes the new-wavey Roses, we have warped, … Continue reading Weekend Round Up
We are loving Insignificance, a track of warm, unhurried, organic folk that is as mellow as they come. It is the first single from Matt Kivel’s forthcoming album Days of Being Wild, which is out on the 8th July via Woodsist Records. Listen below, and pre-order the album from iTunes here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 562: Matt Kivel
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