New FatCat Records signings MNNQNS are ticking MM’s post-punk boxes – tightly woven guitars, deadpan vocals, and a healthy dose of feedback. Throw in a bit of drone and some hypnotic, repetition and the French foursome’s upcoming Advertisement EP is looking like a sonic joy, with passing nods to some of the classics like The Fall, Sonic Youth and Television. Listen to If Only They Could … Continue reading Introducing >>> MNNQNS
Swedish shoegazers Echo Ladies have announced details of their debut album, Pink Noise, which is released on June 8 via Sonic Cathedral. With influences from the Cocteaus to the Jesus & Mary Chain by way of New Order, and effortlessly jumping between sonic mayhem and skewed synth-pop the trio have created a record that ably demonstrates their heady mix of melancholy, euphoria, anger and tenderness. Listen to Bedroom from … Continue reading Echo Ladies Announce Pink Noise Album
Really enjoying this new single from Lou Barlow. Love Intervene is released as a limited 7″ single of 500 copies on bottle green vinyl via Joyful Noise. It is a breezy, jaunty track of folkish rock that has a singalong chorus, and is just one of those instantly likeable toe-tapping, head nodding tunes that is impossible to resist. Watch the video for it below. Continue reading Lou Barlow – Love Intervene
Our favourite surreal DIY punk duo The Lovely Eggs are following up on the success of recent album This Is Eggland with the release of new single Big Sea, which can be purchased on surf blue 7″ vinyl. The track dives deep, exploring the mysteries of the universe, and is a rallying anthem to everyone who wants to live life different. Stream it below. You can … Continue reading New Single & Live Dates From The Lovely Eggs
Dr. Dog – Heart Killer Haley Heynderickx – Rex’s Blues (Townes Van Zandt cover) Beach Skulls – That’s Not Me Mourn – Barcelona City Tour Wedding – Hands In The Till Amyl And The Sniffers – Cup Of Destiny Culture Abuse – Calm E Crocodylus – My Love Jessica Risker – I See You Among The Stars … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Hippo Lite, the new album from DRINKS (Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley of White Fence) is out on the 20th April, the follow up to 2015’s Hermits On Holiday. The latest song to be shared from it is Corner Shops, a typically oddball, off kilter track of skewed pop that somehow manages to be restrained and chaotic at the same time. Have a listen. … Continue reading DRINKS – Corner Shops
MIEN (featuring members of The Horrors, The Black Angels, Elephant Stone and The Earlies) have shared the latest single from their upcoming self-titled LP that is due out tomorrow. (I’m Tired Of) Western Shouting is pretty self explanatory for subject matter, but has an undercurrent of optimism. Heavy and hypnotic, it swells and rolls on a sea of ambient tinged psych and eastern rock grooves … Continue reading MIEN – (I’m Tired Of) Western Shouting
Stevenage based anarcho-punks Bad Breeding have shared a second track Psychic Copper, taken from their forthcoming EP Abandonment – unfiltered, incisive and furious, it is an intense and impassioned cut that addresses toxic masculinity. Bad Breeding are wonderfully reminiscent of the second wave of classic punk bands in the early 80s, from Flux Of Pink Indians to Conflict to the Subhumans – all favourites of MM’s youth! Listen to … Continue reading Bad Breeding – Psychic Copper
Eels – Bone Dry Joan Shelley – The Bridge (Dolly Parton cover) feat Bonnie Price Billy Breakfast Muff – Patient Manchester Orchestra – No Hard Feelings (Avett Brothers cover) Hinds – Finally Floating Laura Veirs – Lightning Rod Medistation – Pool Of Blood Wye Oak – Lifer Eureka California – Mexican Coke Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Riding the wake of critical praise for their debut release The Liar, The Fernweh release their second single, Is This Man Bothering You? which features guest vocalist, Alessi Laurent-Marke (Alessi’s Ark) on the Skeleton Key label. It is out tomorrow. Using three looped drum kits, a wall of overdriven 12-string guitars, flute and Mellotrons in a heart-stopping rush of psych-folk-pop, the band’s distinctly English, coal-fired translation of the acid-soaked … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Fernweh
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