Discovering LIFE at Truck Festival back in 2017 was one of our festival highlights, so much so we went straight out and bought a vinyl copy of their excellent debut long player Popular Music. A follow-up is (thankfully) due for release this year and they’re sharing the biting first single, Moral Fibre, which is out today via Afghan Moon / PIAS, and is available for … Continue reading New Single From LIFE
Following the announcement of their third album, The Ceiling, Birmingham dream-pop group JAWS have shared another single from the record entitled Please Be Kind. Stream it here. The album is out on the 5th April Continue reading New Single From JAWS
Emerging experimental art-rock group Deliluh have announced a brand-new mini LP, Oath of Intent, for release on the 3rd May via Tin Angel (UK/EU) and Telephone Explosion (CA/US). The band have shared the first cut from the record – Freeloader Feast is a gritty, urgent, visceral explosion of a tune. The accompanying video was shot on 16 mm film in a vacant room of the … Continue reading Introducing >>> Deliluh
After 4 years, Mikal Cronin is back with a breezy new garage-pop single. His new 7″ Undertow / Breathe is his first new solo material since 2015 when he released his excellent album MCIII. Stream the A side here and click through to order. Continue reading Mikal Cronin Returns With Undertow Single
T. Hardy Morris -Scare Easy (Mudcrutch cover) Damien Jurado – Throw Me Now Into Your Arms Cate le Bon – Daylight Matters Calexico And Iron & Wine – Father Mountain Wand – Walkie Talkie An Horse – This Is A Song Weyes Blood – Movies Honeyblood – Glimmer The Dream Syndicate – Put Some Miles On Mitski – Let’s Get Married (Bleachers cover) Cherry Pickles … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Here is a second taste from the Fat White Family’s upcoming album Serfs Up! Tastes Good With The Money is built on the back of a scuzzy slow burn of a glam rock riff, absurd lyrics that drop with sordid innuendo and a vocal cameo from Baxter Dury. Throw in a surreal Monty Python inspired video and you’ve got all the ingredients for another irresistible, … Continue reading Fat White Family – Tastes Good With The Money
Ausmuteants will return with a new album The World In Handcuffs via Anti Fade Records on the 26th April. Typically weird, the record features the same ten songs on each side, just in a different order and with the A Side including skits by guitarist Shaun Connor. The record is a concept album of sorts, one that explores a piss-take look on life from the … Continue reading New From Ausmuteants
Hailing from Gdansk in Poland, Trupa Trupa are a new addition to the Sub Pop label and it is easy to see why on the strength of the woozily menacing Dream About. Theirs is a world teeming with nihilistic considerations, slyly dark humour, and survivalist self-assurances. The oft repeated “I dream about no one, no way, no one / I’ve got nothing to hide, I will just … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Trupa Trupa
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Fishing For Fishies The Head And The Heart – Missed Connection Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation – Feel The Sun The UV Club – Mr Blame Lucille Furs – Paint Euphrosyne Blue Frankie Cosmos – Dancing Los Wilds – Muñequita de Trapo Grim Streaker – Today New York UV … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Emerging from a five year silence and guided by warped guitar tones, menacing drums, and thundering bass, the new sound that Chicago post-punk foursome Walking Bicycles present on their new release Chooch is louder than anything they’ve recorded before. With echoes of Siouxsie & The Banshees doom laden gothica, take a listen to Fat Cat, and latest single, the fearsome ESP below. Order the album here. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Walking Bicycles
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