Ian Felice – Kingdom Of Dreams Torres – Three Futures Together PANGEA – Money On It Oh Sees – Animated Violence Prism Tats – Brainwaves A. Savage – Winter In The South Protomartyr – A Private Understanding Beaches – Void Sloan Peterson – Rats Speedy Ortiz – Screen Gem DIIV – Cow (Sparklehorse cover) Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
An appropriate companion piece to our earlier BAIT post, Meatraffle blast out a rallying cry to the proletariat to throw off the chains of mediocre, mass produced music and get down to their sweet and chaotic sonic waves. Throwing out land shanties of burning bankers, friendly local drug dealers, enduring friendship and the Russian Revolution: psychedelic, socialist, utopian, death ragga, erroneous funk, trapdoor jazz, bastard … Continue reading More From Meatraffle
We’re big fans of the noisy, post-punk and mordant black humour of Southend-on-Sea duo BAIT. The excellently named Waspy is their latest release, a thunderous cacophony of industrial percussion and pummelling riffs. Marvellous stuff. Frighten your granny below… Continue reading BAIT – Waspy
Surfing Magazines, the new garage-rock group consisting of two thirds of The Wave Pictures and one half of Slow Club, have shared New Day – the second track to be taken from their self-titled debut album, due for release on Moshi Moshi on 1st September. They say “New Day is a super quick tune. I’m not totally sure what its about. There’s some Russian dolls in there, … Continue reading Surfing Magazines – New Day
After three long years of anticipation, San Francisco’s psych-blasted, starry-eyed weirdos The Fresh & Only’s are returning with their new album, Wolf Lie Down. The brilliant title track is one of our favourites of the year so far, and now we also have the smouldering garage chug of Impossible Man for you. Stream both below. Continue reading The Fresh & Onlys – Impossible Man
Brutal noise rockers METZ are back with a new record, Strange Peace, that sees them turning in a much more nuanced, interesting set of songs, one that feels particularly indebted to Sonic Youth, Preoccupations, Fugazi and the more angular edges of the alt rock pantheon. It’s a record that is still immersed in the kind of biting social commentary they’ve often dealt in, but this … Continue reading METZ Are Back
Time for some more musical films… Hull Goth Punk outfit Lumer have released the video for their unhinged new single Gruel on Warren Records. Reminiscent of Bauhaus, Killing Joke and YAK it is a brutally thrilling cut. Spirit Valley’s expansive, primal psych-rock falls somewhere between the fuzzed out rock’n’roll of The Black Angels and the warped synths of Moon Duo check out new single Waiting For Real. Fuzz Club Records’ live session … Continue reading Welcome To The Videodome
We’re a little late to this one, but our recent discovery of Bad//Dreems’ latest album Gutful was simply too good to keep to ourselves. From the self-proclaimed Aussie “outsider rock” camp, their blend of snotty garage punk, self-deprecating black humour and infectiously catchy pop melodies draw positive comparisons with other MM faves from the same stable such as The Dune Rats and Scott & Charlene’s … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends: Bad//Dreems
A new project from Stefanie Drootin (The Good Life, Big Harp, Bright Eyes, She & Him) and Chris Senseney (Big Harp), Umm finds the couple drawing inward, draping vintage harmonies and shards of fuzz over grounded, primitive rhythms and simple, aching pop melodies. Like the Everly Brothers and Suicide smoking cigarettes in bed and listening to the Breeders! Sound good? If so, check out a … Continue reading Introducing >>> Umm
Bury, Manchester five-piece Ethan & The Reformation are all set to take off on their magic carpet whilst putting a contemporary twist on lost 60s psychedelia that allows them to make the most alluring escapist music. Across its 7 minutes, new single Free From Everything, is full of Eastern promise as its sucks up the dust from melodic artefacts through history and scatters it wide over a … Continue reading MM Shorts 957: Ethan & The Reformation
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