After a too long hiatus, we’ve resurrected our best of the month mix capturing our favourite tunes from October’s posts, plus a couple of new tracks too. So more than 25 songs to discover…dive in! The September Girls – Veneer Dark-hearted pop smothered in drenched feedback . God Damn – Horus A red-hot burning molten pot of pop hooks and grinding, bludgeoning riffs and rhythms. . … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: October 2014
Five cool new videos to enjoy from sweet folk sisters First Aid Kit, dream-popsters Beverly, indie rockers Virginia Wing and Allo Darlin’, and Darlia. Press play and enjoy… . . . . . Continue reading New Video Round-Up
With Are We There, Sharon Van Etten released an exceptional album this year, with a highlight (amongst many) being the dramatic Your Love Is Killing Me – a confessional that documents with unflinching honesty and intensity the final crumbling and disintegration of a relationship. Already recognised as one of 2014’s most powerful songs we now have the long-awaited video directed by Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May … Continue reading New Video: Sharon Van Etten – Your Love Is Killing Me
We Are Country Mice, later just Country Mice were well established MM faves and their demise was a sad day for us here. However better news is at hand as Curtin is a new band comprised of former Country Mice frontman Jason Rueger and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Austin Nelson. Their newly released album is titled One For The Doghearted, and is nine hazy tracks that create a slow-burning and hypnotic soundscape, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Curtin
Here is another track from Kyle Adem’s excellent recent EP Beautiful Dreamer. I Go On is dramatic; a haunting, satirical autobiography of loss and the person one becomes in solitude sung with convincing desperation. . Continue reading MM Shorts 626: Kyle Adem
Shoegazer country act Hearts of Oak released their third album New England (via Deer Lodge Records) earlier this year. We meant to post about it then, but for some reason it never happened and it is a shame as it really is an album that deserves to be heard. Fronted by singer-songwriter Nate Wallace, Hearts of Oak has been referred to as “a singer-songwriter with a druggy, … Continue reading Hearts of Oak – New England
1. Justin Townes Earle – Dreams (Fleetwood Mac cover) 2. Grouper – Holding 3. Andrew Bird & Nora O’Connor – I’ll Trade You Money For Wine (Robbie Fulks cover) 4. Chumped – Name That Thing 5. John Moore – Smoking On The Cancer Ward . . [Click through for free download] . . . . Continue reading Five Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Four lovely new videos for you to enjoy from The Coathangers, The Lone Bellow, Los Angeles Police Department and the minimally monikered S. . . . . . Continue reading Video Round Up
Mrs M and I just heard this on Radio 6 – absolutely lovely… Buy from Bandcamp here. . Continue reading Julie Byrne – Melting Grid
Frankly we’re still trying to understand the whole Parquet Courts / Parkay Quarts thing, where the overlaps are and what the significance of the two names are… However, that aside, Content Nausea will be a new release from the latter: recorded, mixed and mastered in two weeks on a 4-track tape machine. Apparently the band wanted something that listeners could “live with over the winter.” … Continue reading Parkay Quarts – Content Nausea
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