Irish duo The Lost Brothers recently released new album Halfway Towards A Healing has been rightly picking up some great reviews, and new single Come Tomorrow may be our favourite track from the record. It is a gently insistent folk song complete with their trademark tender harmonies and sense of bruised heartache and is a absolute gem of a tune. Stream it here. Continue reading The Lost Brothers – Come Tomorrow
Amen Dunes (aka the project of New York-based Damon McMahon) has shared the video for his new single Blue Rose, taken from upcoming long player Freedom which is out on the 30th March. The song is a teenage clarion call born from McMahon’s growing up with an unpredictable father, his fighting back with music, drugs and fantasy, and his eventual escape from it all via one of … Continue reading More From Amen Dunes
Okkervil River’s new record is called In The Rainbow Rain, and is released on the 27th April. Described as a buoyant and playful record spattered with starbursts of electric guitar, big blooms of synth, and a chorus of backing vocals, the first taste is Don’t Move Back To LA, the light-hearted midpoint of the album. Bandleader Will Sheff says the song “had a very straightforward impulse behind it: … Continue reading Okkervil River – Don’t Move Back To LA
PJ Harvey & Harry Escott – An Acre Of Land Goat Girl – The Man Screaming Females – No More I Love You’s (Annie Lennox cover) EELS – Today Is The Day Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Middle America King Tuff – Psycho Star Say Sue Me – Old Town Shakey Graves – Counting Sheep Plain Dog – Reptile Boy … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Haley Heynderickx’s debut album I Need To Start A Garden mixes folk, doo wop, atmospheric guitars with beautiful instrumentation sitting next to stark rawer moments. We already shared the stunning Untitled God Song, and now we have the equally good Worth It, which over the course of nearly eight minutes undulates from soft-hums into moments of crashing catharsis all led by her incredible, arresting voice and … Continue reading More From Haley Heynderickx
No not a fey singer-songwriter, Oliver Hazard are actually an indie folk trio from Waterville, Ohio. Theirs are songs of small towns and the vibrant souls that stir them and Hey Louise is a lovely example of their warm, strummed Americana with rich harmonies that has more than a hint of the Lumineers about it. Give it a whirl. Continue reading MM Shorts 998: Oliver Hazard
Hookworms – Static Resistance Thurston Moore – Mx Liberty Olden Yolk – Vital Sign King Tuff – The Other Wye Oak – The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs Alexis Krauss & The Our Land Collective – Our Land Charly Bliss – The Way You Wear Your Head (Nada Surf cover) A Place To Bury Strangers – Never Coming Back The Messthetics – Serpent Tongue … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We missed this just before Christmas – a new single from MM stalwarts, Portland’s Loch Lomond. Legs & Antlers takes their chamber folk and twists it through a disco-pop lens, and the result is undeniably lovely. They’ve shared a new video for the single which you can watch here. Continue reading New Video: Loch Lomond – Legs & Antlers
The third in the Marfa Myths series of releases will be seven all-new songs written and recorded by Stockholm’s psychedelic masters Dungen in collaboration with adventurous Brooklyn indie-folk pioneers Woods. On the face of it, it should be a match made in musical heaven and judging by the languid, exploratory, and dynamic, first track Turn Around, we’re in for a treat with the full album. Listen … Continue reading New Dungen & Woods Collaboration
Kindness of Strangers is the second song unveiled from Courtney Marie Andrews’ much anticipated new full-length album, May Your Kindness Remain, which will be released March 23 on the ever reliable Loose Records in the UK and elsewhere via Fat Possum Records/Mama Bird Recording Co. The new track takes a confident step away from the straight ahead, classic country/folk route to take in a little gospel, some … Continue reading Courtney Marie Andrews – Kindness Of Strangers
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