Fontaine’s D.C. are back! Our favourite band from 2019, the Dubliners have announced a follow-up to last year’s brilliant Dogrel. It will be called A Hero’s Death and be out on 31st July via Partisan Records. Hear the album’s title track now, already one of the best songs we’ve heard this year, and watch the accompanying music video starring Aidan Gillen (of Game of Thrones, … Continue reading Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death
Just five months after the release of their excellent Mind Hive album, WIRE return with a new one titled 10:20. 10:20 features songs the band refers to as ‘strays’. These are recordings of pieces that couldn’t be accommodated on regular albums, as well as compositions that – following their original studio recording – evolved substantially through live performance, and so deserved a new life on record. Originally scheduled … Continue reading New Video: WIRE – The Art Of Persistence
We recently posted Chemtrails’ excellent Suck My Mind from their upcoming long player The Peculiar Smell Of The Inevitable and they are following it up with the equally good Blurred Vision. It is another sledge hammer heavy slam-dunk of raw guitar and synth noise. Having relocated to Manchester from London in late 2019, romantic partners Mia Lust and Laura Orlova recruited a whole new line-up. … Continue reading Chemtrails – Blurred Visions
We loved Bee Bee Sea’s This Dog Is The King Of Losers back in January 2018 – a full on riffola of psych infused garage rock stomp. The Italian band are back with a new long player Day Ripper, out on 9th October, and have shared the first single Daily Jobs which is another excellent track chock full of frenzied riffs, sharp tempo shifts, melodic … Continue reading New Single From Bee Bee Sea
Influenced just as much by 80s New Wave acts such as Talking Heads and The Associates, as they are by the queer modern art-pop sensibilities of St Vincent, Glasgow based Walt Disco’s new single Cut Your Hair is an anthem for a new generation of misfits exemplifying everything the band are about. The single is lifted from the band’s debut EP due later this year, the track … Continue reading Walt Disco – Cut Your Hair
Loving this track from Thee MVPs, taken from upcoming debut album Science Fiction, which is out via Eeasy Records on the 29th May. Full of pent-up throbbing aggression, A Song For Councillor bursts at the seams with the band’s deceptively infectious riff-driven motorik grooves and delivers a full-on, unstoppable, beat heavy, high energy blowout. Something for the weekend sir? This’ll do nicely! Stream it (loudly) … Continue reading Thee MVPS share A Song For Councillor
Here is an excellent animated video for left-field post-punk band Percy’s frenzied, vitriolic governmental anti-anthem Will Of The People. The track comes from their new album Seaside Donkeys, which drops on 8th May. The album is an in-your-face scream that represents the gritty realism of the 2020s and the slow, inexorable decay of the UK. Watch it below, and you can also stream the first single … Continue reading New Video: Percy – Will Of The People
Much heralded London six-piece Sports Team will release their debut album Deep Down Happy on the 19th June. It is collection of sharply drawn pen portraits of small-town torments, inequality and escapism that documents modern Britain in all its messy, messed-up complexity. They have shared a new single and video from it and the upbeat, hectic Going Soft is about a vibrant slice of exuberant indie rock … Continue reading Sports Team – Going Soft
Visceral Liverpool art-rock foursome SPQR have shared the title track from their third EP No Brain, No Pain which is out now (order here). Having already shared EP openers Nuthin Gud and the excellent Just Sumfin, the latest track is a bouncy, layered slice of quirky pop with an undeniably catchy bassline. Check them all out below. Continue reading SPQR – No Brain, No Pain EP
A long time ago West Virginian Jason Ward was a favourite on MM, particularly of Mrs M as one of his songs, the acerbic Bless You was a perfectly timed tune for a somewhat tricky period. Anyway, he has returned under the moniker of Spiteful Bum with a new album of lo-fi garage pop which he describes as “singing about our lives, your lives, depression, love, lust, anger and … Continue reading Spiteful Bum – Jot Down The Dope
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