Gotta love a band with a name like that. Newly signed in the UK to FatCat, Psychedelic Horseshit release their new album Laced on the 16th May. They’re outspoken, they’re loud, they’re a mishmash of various styles and you can experience their sound for yourself by checking out French Countryside from the new record below. Their second ‘proper’ album; it marks a major shift, upgrading … Continue reading Try some Psychedelic Horseshit
Indie folksters Arborea will be releasing a new album, Red Planet, on Oregon based label Strange Attractors Audio House in April. Mixing folk, some floating, spacey drone and minimalist percussion with Shanti Curran’s gorgeous vocals to mesmerising effect, the spine tingling results are stark, but beautifully compelling. Try Careless Love from the album, and also as a bonus treat yourself to Blue Crystal Fire, their … Continue reading New from Arborea
Virginia’s The Diamond Center take great joy in harnessing the wild beast of psych rock with some surf-ish reverb and a hint of spectral country noir and forcing them all together to submit for an epic joy ride of the senses. New single, Caraway, has a haunting, echoing melancholy that spreads over almost six and a half pulsing minutes and somehow manages to soothe and … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Diamond Center
Transmalinnia is the name of the debut album from The Lumerians. For anyone not familiar with them, they tick the same boxes that you expect Wooden Shjips, Black Angels, and The Warlocks to tick – that being, obviously, the tick box for the more psychedelic end of the spectrum Theirs is an alien landscape populated by synthesisers, tribal drums, futuristic guitar swirls and all cloaked … Continue reading Debut Album from the Lumerians
Some more half decent, decent, and downright entertaining videos for you to check out. The Agitator’s new single Say NO! is a politically charged call to arms set against an equally radical new musical style. Not a guitar in sight, just front man Derek Meins’ force-of-nature voice accompanied by Robert Dylan Thomas and T-Train on thunderous double drums. Pared down and primal! a Bergen, Norway-based … Continue reading Video Round Up
This is the first Work Drugs song ever written. Also check them out on a very rare tour with UK indie buzz-band Two Door Cinema Club in April 2011. Download Work Drugs – Sunset Junction mp3 (from Sunset Junction) Continue reading New from Work Drugs
Here we are again. A mix of the best tracks we posted in February and a few new ones too. Twenty seven cracking songs to immerse yourself in! Download O’Death – Bugs mp3 (from Outside) Echoes of their ramshackle and punkish best, but this time it is cocooned in something more subtle and thoughtful too. Download The Whalers – That Rabbit mp3 (from How The Ship Goes … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: February
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