Here is Part 2 of our round up of the best of the week’s releases. In this batch of gems we have a new single from prolific garage-punk Ty Segall, another taster from the Jesus & Mary Chain’s long awaited new record and a brilliant track from Mark Lanegan’s recently announced album Gargoyle. The Tablets offer up an excellent new wave inspired single and there is … Continue reading Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 2)
So many good new tunes released this week – fourteen and counting – that we’ve had to split them into two posts. Here are the first seven including a brilliant new single from the UK’s new saviour of indie guitar rock, Cabbage. Like a cross between Fat White Family, The Fall, and the Amazing Snakeheads. We have the new single from Samantha Crain’s upcoming album … Continue reading Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 1)
Here is volume 27 of Nickel in the Jukebox – a semi regular roundup of new (and some not so new) tunes for your listening pleasure. Within these ten tunes we have frantic noise punk, classic country, slow-burning folk, indie guitars and fuzzy pastoral psychedelia and plenty more besides. Listen and decide… hit or miss? Tangerines – Peckham Boys [RIYL: Art-punk, Television, Modern Lovers] … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 27)
It has been a while since we’ve heard from Americana four-piece Cat Meat and so it was a welcome surprise to get details of a new track, Caught By The Richochet in our in-box. It is a mid-tempo slice of alt-Country with just the right amount of longing and regret. I recalled you in these four walls When pollen swelled my eyes The morning light on ivory … Continue reading MM Shorts 919: Cat Meat
We loved the recent track Have You Ever Seen Peaches Growing on a Sweet Potato Vine? from Jake Xerxes Fussell’s second full-length album, What in the Natural World, which like its predecessor explores traditional songs from the American South, due out on 31st March via Paradise of Bachelors. Now, the Durham, North Carolina singer and guitarist has shared Furniture Man, a desperate tale of poverty, dispossession, and imminent … Continue reading Jake Xerxes Fussell Shares Furniture Man
Evergreen singer-songwriter and Austin resident extraordinaire, Shakey Graves has released The Man From Taured as a pay-what-you-want release on Bandcamp. The eleven tracks are a collection of demos, b-sides and rarities from the past ten years and is well worth getting hold off. Want proof? Listen to a demo of Call It Heaven with Esme Patterson below. Continue reading Shakey Graves Releases The Man From Taured
Nine songs for your listening pleasure gathered from the week’s new releases. We have Mountain Goats showing that even with a throwaway song, composed off the back of a jokey Twitter conversation, John Darnielle can better 95% of what is out there, whilst Molly Burch and Tara Jane O’Neil’s beautifully composed songs are at the other end of the pendulum’s swing. We also have some brilliant fuzzy, … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We were big fans of I See You the first track from Bonny Doon’s upcoming self-titled debut. A beautifully judged mix of rolling Americana, freak folk, and a little psychedelia, the second track to be shared from the album is the equally good What Time Is It In Portland? Stream it below – the album is out on the 10th March via Salinas Records. Continue reading New From Bonny Doon
Not only did we have the return of Wooden Wand earlier, but Mac DeMarco has also announced his first full-length album since 2014’s Salad Days. Titled This Old Dog, he has shared two songs from it, the sweetly bucolic title track, and the jauntier, acoustic psych-pop of My Old Man. Both bode well for the new record, which he describes thus, “the majority of this album is acoustic guitar, synthesizer, some drum … Continue reading New Album From Mac DeMarco
After what seems like an uncharacteristically long silence, longstanding MM fave Wooden Wand has shared details of a new album, Clipper Ship, to be released on the 5th May. The first taste from it is Mexican Coke, a typically understated, gently strummed and elegant folk song that reminds us all of what we’ve been missing these past months. Lyrically there are few who can match … Continue reading Wooden Wand Returns
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