Last month, with what seems very little fanfare, longstanding MM faves The Cave Singers released a new collection of Demos & B-Sides via Bandcamp. To our shame we also noticed they’d released a new EP at the tail end of 2019 too. So better late than never here is the backwoods campfire singalong of At The Rig and the yearning country of Katydid from the Demos … Continue reading The Cave Singers – Demos & B-Sides
Last month, Phoebe Bridgers confirmed details of her second solo album, Punisher, to be released via Dead Oceans on the 19th June. She has shared another song from the album. Originally entitled ICU the song’s spelling has been changed to I See You for its release on digital platforms – for fairly obvious reasons. She says of the song, “It’s about my breakup with my … Continue reading Phoebe Bridgers – I See You
It has been four years since we last featured the noirish Americana of Ben de la Cour, and eight years since we first featured him. He has a new album just out, Shadow Land which we’re enjoying a hell of a lot. The record is jam-packed with soul-bearing songs about loss, danger, addiction and longing. It is a darkly beautiful meditation on what it means to … Continue reading Ben de la Cour – Shadow Land
I love Grizzly Bears, ergo I love songs about Grizzly Bears. And any song that adds ‘Blues’ to the end of its title is automatically improved by at least 10% – minimum. So here is Corb Lund’s lyrically deft Grizzly Bear Blues to take you into the weekend. An all round excellent Country style rocker that didn’t even need improving by 10%. It is full of sage … Continue reading Corb Lund – Grizzly Bear Blues
Loving this from Golf Alpha Bravo – the solo project of Los Angeles-based Australian singer and guitarist Gab Winterfield of Jagwar Ma fame. The languid guitar licks and surf inspired groove of Stuck Being Me is the latest track from his debut album The Sundog LP, due out on the 12th June via his own Treasured Recordings label. Its gorgeous, 70s campfire feel is perfectly matched by … Continue reading New Video: Golf Alpha Bravo – Stuck Being Me
We missed this release from Laura Stevenson as part of Bandcamp’s revenue sharing day at the beginning of May. After Those Who Mean It has been around in demo form for a while, but this is a gorgeous acoustic version that is beautiful in its understated simplicity. Continue reading Laura Stevenson – After Those Who Mean It
Lockdown has given us an opportunity to get a little more up to date with our posts and to catch up, a little, with some of the many, many tunes that come our way. Given it is Friday and a Bank Holiday here in the UK, we’ve rounded up a few tunes that we would have liked to have given a bit more time and … Continue reading Something For The Weekend…
Last year Australian singer-songwriter Dan Brodie released an excellent album titled Funerária do Vale which created its own heady, musical stew from blues, country, folk and even some rockabilly influences. One of the tracks, We’ll Never Drink (Again) is a gently mournful reflection on a relationship breakdown, and a standout on the album for us. There is a new video for the song, which uses footage taken … Continue reading New Video: Dan Brodie – We’ll Never Drink (Again)
Small Song is a single taken from Paddlefish’s new album Flyer. The album was written over the course of principal songwriter Owen Misterovich’s first year away from his hometown of Springfield, Missouri, and inspired by the disappointment he experienced after moving to Chicago at the age of seventeen, where he found himself braving the first harsh winter in a windowless dorm room in the heart … Continue reading Paddlefish – Small Song
Turning into quite a day for new music… following tunes from Fontaines D.C., The Murder Capital and Cass McCombs, we’re delighted to discover news of a new album, Holy Smokes Future Jokes, and single, Magical Thinking, from longstanding MM stalwarts Blitzen Trapper. The track is a lovely slice of gentle Americana, a ruminative and lyrical meander around life and death that is deftly, and delicately, … Continue reading Blitzen Trapper Announce Holy Smokes Future Jokes & Share Magical Thinking
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