Category: Acoustic

Acoustic, Americana, Blues, Folk, Indie, Jazz, Music, Rock

Videos of the Day: The National || L.A. Salami || Miss Quincy & The Showdown || High Coast

Films today from indie heavyweights The National and their video for the brilliant Sea Of Love, and from rising UK troubadour L.A. Salami we have the sparse but engrossing video for Old Queen’s Head, (pick up a free download of his track Deformation Days below too). We have some appropriately vintage film footage for Miss Quincy & The Showdown’s video for Silent Movie, and lastly, a chilly … Continue reading Videos of the Day: The National || L.A. Salami || Miss Quincy & The Showdown || High Coast

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Acoustic, Alternative, Americana, Blues, Country, Electronic, Folk, Garage, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock

Mad Mackerel’s Best of the Month: April 2013

Better late than never, here is our monthly round-up of the best of our April downloads together with a handful of brand new tracks. More than twenty songs especially prepared for you to put together an eclectic and appealing mix to impress all your friends and bore your boring work colleagues. Enjoy! Wild Wild Wets – Criminal Blue Tripped out, freaked out, psych pop. . Hey … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best of the Month: April 2013

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Acoustic, Folk, Music

Another Taste From Laura Marling’s Once I Was An Eagle

We have already posted Where Can I Go? the first offering from Laura Marling’s forthcoming album Once I Was An Eagle (out 27th May). The album is picking up uniformly good reviews and sounds like it may well be her best yet. This second taste from it is the altogether more insistent and threatening Master Hunter, which comes across as equal parts angry and frustrated, … Continue reading Another Taste From Laura Marling’s Once I Was An Eagle

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Acoustic, Ambient, Folk, Indie, Music, Psychedelic

New Album From Arborea

Arborea has a new album Fortress of the Sun coming out on April 30th on the NYC label ESP-Disk. At the vanguard of the avant-folk scene, they effortlessly combine the delicate and fragile with the traditional, weaving together a beguiling mix of ambient sounds with gentle psychedelia, Appalachian folk and indie rock. Take a listen to a selection of tracks from the album below. Order it here. Continue reading New Album From Arborea

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Round Up Time Again

It’s been a while since we’ve succumbed to the anxieties of our overwhelming in-box, but succumb we have. So, here is a too short and not sweet enough collection of new tunes of varying shapes and sizes that deserve some attention from you. Consider it the digital equivalent of crate digging… Paperhaus released its alt-country styled self-titled EP in 2011, and will release its second … Continue reading Round Up Time Again

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Acoustic, Americana, Country, Folk, Gothic, Indie, Music

New Album From Georgia’s Horse

The brilliant debut album The Mammoth Sessions by Georgia’s Horse was a big hit round these parts. Mrs M in particular loved the mysterious, haunting vocals of Texan songwriter Teresa Maidonado set over a backdrop of swirling, dusty Americana and old-time folk. It was gorgeous, mesmerising and unsettling in equal measure and as fine a debut record as you were likely to hear. Her new … Continue reading New Album From Georgia’s Horse

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Acoustic, Alternative, Folk, Indie, Music, Psychedelic, Rock

Videos of the Day: The Staves || Moby & Mark Lanegan || Daughters Of Davis || Electric Eye

Watch musical films from the ever wonderful Staves with their cover of Keaton Henson’s In The Morning, that features the man himself, the Moby & Mark Lanegan collaboration for last Saturday’s Record Store Day, some soulful, windswept folk from Daughters of Davis, and to finish an epic, hazy, nine minute psychedelic road trip from Electric Eye with Tangerine the first single from their debut album Pick-up, … Continue reading Videos of the Day: The Staves || Moby & Mark Lanegan || Daughters Of Davis || Electric Eye

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Videos of the Day: Horse Thief || Iron & Wine || Old Man Canyon || The Soft Moon

Watch videos for Horse Thief’s brilliant track I Am The Bear, a stunning intimate acoustic perfomance from SXSW by Iron & Wine, a gorgeous Phantoms & Friends from Old Man Canyon (free EP download from Bandcamp here), and to finish the jittery, unsettling Want by The Soft Moon gets a video to match… . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Horse Thief || Iron & Wine || Old Man Canyon || The Soft Moon

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Introducing >>> Belle Mare

Brooklyn’s Belle Mare offer a lush and evocative debut, The Boat Of The Fragile Mind EP, which was released earlier this week. This duo comprised of Amelia Bushell and Thomas Servidone craft a dreamspace of acoustic and synth textures, weaving folk with dream pop, that showcase Bushell’s haunting vocals. Consisting of eight tracks, check out the title track below. Continue reading Introducing >>> Belle Mare

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Pete Fij & Terry Bickers: New Single & Album

Last year (September to be precise), former Creation Records label mates Pete Fij (Adorable / Polak) & Terry Bickers (House of Love / Levitation) crawled out of musical hibernation to give us the brilliant track, I Don’t Give A Shit About You. A sweary love song of sorts, it was heralded as a taste of forthcoming album Broken Heart Surgery, which was scheduled for spring … Continue reading Pete Fij & Terry Bickers: New Single & Album

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