Category: Americana

Americana, Folk, Music, Psychedelic

Mad Mackerel Recommends… The Midnight Pine

The Midnight Pine have just released their second album, Buried. It is a collection of gorgeously evocative and restrained psych-tinged folk that uses sparse, eerie instrumentation to showcase the haunting, beautiful vocals of Shelbi Bennett. In fact, to keep the focus on her vocals,  there are no drums, just found objects, chains, saw blades, sheet metal, utensils and short wave radios, which are layered to keep a … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… The Midnight Pine

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Alternative, Americana, Garage, Indie, Music, Psychedelic, Rock

The Pharmacy – Anna Bella

The Pharmacy’s charming blend of indie garage pop bliss has featured a few times on MM. The band’s latest release, the first since 2012’s Stoned & Alone, Spells was written in a cabin in Big Sur and recorded in the basement of a used car museum in downtown Tacoma, with each of its raw, psych-tinged tracks laid down live. The band have just offered up … Continue reading The Pharmacy – Anna Bella

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Americana, Country, Music, Rock

New Video: Sturgill Simpson – The Promise

You may know The Promise for being 80s Manchester band, When In Rome’s lone US hit single (though it didn’t dent the top 40 in the UK). On Sturgill Simpson’s excellent new album, Metamodern Sounds In Country Music, the Kentucky born singer takes the song apart and puts it back together in a distinctly non-New Wave type way, making you believe that this is the way it was … Continue reading New Video: Sturgill Simpson – The Promise

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Alternative, Ambient, Americana, Country, Folk, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock

Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

1. Invisible Familiars – Clever Devil 2. Real Lies – North Circular 3. Alice Boman – Red Eyes (War On Drugs Cover) 4. Arborea – Sea Of Polaris 5. Castanets – Out For The West 6. Matt Kivel – Open Road 7. J Mascis – Every Morning 8. The Wytches – The Holy Tightrope . . . . . . . . . Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

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Americana, Folk, Indie, Music, Rock

Video: Strand of Oaks – Shut In

The video for Strand of Oaks’ track Shut In is a literal interpretation of the melancholic but hopeful lyrics of the song. Tim Showalter, plays a hermit who has lived amongst his hoarded possessions for a third of his life. But as the video comes to a close, there appears to be hope for him, bringing creedence to the lyric, “and I’ll wait to get … Continue reading Video: Strand of Oaks – Shut In

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Acoustic, Americana, Folk, Indie, Music

MM Shorts 577: Lowpines

Lowpines, the new solo project from Oli Deakin of fuzz-pop outfit Bear Driver, assimilates a love for the likes of Bill Callahan, Sparklehorse and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy into crackling, featherlight confessionals. This new track, Call Off The Hunt, is the latest single (out July 7). Have a listen to it and Talk Not, and download the full Avenue Blues EP for free from Bandcamp here. .   … Continue reading MM Shorts 577: Lowpines

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