BRONCHO write some of the catchiest, most infectious indie-rock anthems around and Get In My Car, the Oklahoma quartet’s first new offering since releasing their third album Double Vanity in 2016, completely lives up to all expectations. A bit of glam rock, some garage swagger, and classic pop…stream it below. Continue reading BRONCHO – Get In My Car
Hiss Golden Messenger – Standing In The Doorway L.A. Witch – Kill My Baby Tonight Offa Rex – Sheepcrook and Black Dog Caroline Says – Winter Is Cold Wand – Plum Hans Chew – Give Up The Ghost Terry – Glory The Mynabirds – Cocoon Guantanamo Baywatch – Area 69 Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
At the start of the year, London label Fuzz Club Records put out a brilliant new record from Mexican duo Has A Shadow – a menacing, nine-track dive into motorik, almost-gothic post punk propelled by eerie organs, metronomic percussion, screeching guitars and haunting, atonal vocals. Watch the video for Sorrow, one of the stand out tracks from the record. Continue reading MM Shorts 956: Has A Shadow
Sonically, Widowspeak exist somewhere in the overlap between sombre indie rock, dream pop, slow-core and their own invented genre, “cowboy grunge”. New album Expect the Best is the follow up to 2015’s All Yours. While previous albums were conceived as a duo, the new LP finds the band playing to the specific strengths of the current four-piece touring incarnation and exhibits a marked increase in energy. Their usual palette of dusty guitars … Continue reading New Album From Widowspeak
After waiting a goodly while for Wooden Wand’s excellent new album Clipper Ship, James Jackson Toth has surprised us with a second full length release, Toth’s Law. It is a collection of songs which were, for one reason or another, not included on previous releases. Not because they weren’t good, but because according to JJT ” I think of every album as a fish tank. As … Continue reading Wooden Wand – Toth’s Law
Absolutely loving the new single from Cabbage. Celebration Of A Disease comes from their forthcoming release The Extended Play Of Cruelty, out on the 21st July via Skeleton Key Records. It is a brilliant mix of mutated groove and indie rock and is one of our favourite tracks of the year so far… Stream it below. Continue reading Cabbage – Celebration Of A Disease
It’s been ages since we’ve posted a round up of some of the new music videos we’ve liked. Here then is a Sunday treat for you…eight of the best. Kevin Morby’s title track off his forthcoming record, City Music nearly hits the 7-minute mark and challenges what fans may have come to expect from him. The song builds like a slowly accelerating subway train, as does this … Continue reading Video Round Up
Chad VanGaalen – Old Heads Mutual Benefit – Diamond Day (Vashti Bunyan cover) Jen Cloher – Forgot Myself Lo Tom – Covered Wagon The Deslondes – (This Ain’t A) Sad Song NØMADS – Dementophobia Winter – Jaded Offa Rex – The Old Churchyard The Yawpers – Mon Dieu Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Leeds-based trio Night Owls have announced their return with brand new single Out of My Head, out now via Till Deaf Do us Party Records. It builds handsomely on the fuzz-drenched, slacker-influenced grunge pop of their 2016 debut EP Informaldehyde. By taking a leaf out of the shoegaze scene handbook, the new single sees them taking a doped-up, dreamy and melodically obtuse approach to their raucous, … Continue reading Night Owls – Out Of My Head
We shared the throbbing, confrontational punk of Chest Pains’ pay-what-you-want single Petrified earlier this month and now we have the follow up for you. Like Petrified, Shame is a track that seethes and churns, frustrations threatening to boil over, but just about held in check by tense guitars that every now and then gallop away backed by a frenzy of clattering percussion. Good stuff indeed. Listen … Continue reading More From Chest Pains
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