Been a busy week away from the blog so we’ve not been able to post as much as we would like. Here then is our usual round-up of tunes released in the past week. The Coathangers – Make It Right Cat’s Eyes – Chameleon Queen Mary Chapin Carpenter – Something Tamed Something Wild Elephant Stone – Where I’m Going Gun Outfit – King Of Hearts Eagulls … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We’ve already posted a couple of tracks of the slow, roiling, psychedelic folk that The Murals specialise in, and which fills their debut album Violet City Lantern with a breathtaking ease. Now we have a third – listen to I Live Here below, and order the album, which is out in a couple of weeks time, via Bandcamp here. Continue reading Another From Murals
Crippled Shining Blues is the excellently named new single to be taken from London-based psych-folk outfit The Hanging Stars’ new album Over the Silvery Lake (due out on 11 March via The Great Pop Supplement and Crimson Crow). The track is wonderfully rhythmical, replete with a wandering bassline and complimentary riffs from both guitar and pedal steel. The sweetness of the verse is complimented by … Continue reading New Single From The Hanging Stars
New Zealand duo The Renderers play languid, seeping music with its guitar swells and swirls, menacing vocal delivery and a loose structure that threatens dissemblance at every turn. New album In The Sodium Light is out on the 26th February and we have the excellent pastoral psych of Seaworthy from it to share with you. Continue reading MM Shorts 814: The Renderers
Well here we go again with another collection of ten top notch new tunes picked from the past seven days, purely for your edification and enjoyment. Father John Misty – Maybe, Sweet One, You Won’t Have Nightmares Tonight Rats On Rafts – Some Velvet Morning (Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood cover) The Raveonettes – The World Is Empty (Without You) Frankie Cosmos – Sinister Summer … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Dogs is the latest track to be revealed from emerging LA-based band Bird Dog’s forthcoming debut EP Misty Shrub. Give it a spin below, it is another fine example of their warm, synth-tinged Americana that feels like it has just time-travelled from the canyons of early 70’s country-rock. Continue reading Another From Bird Dog
Mount Moriah have shared Baby Blue, a gorgeous alt-country slow-burner, and it comes accompanied by a beautiful new video that aims to depict the quiet dignity in everyday life through a series of extended shots: including a man sharing a t-shirt with his newborn child, a woman sat on a doorstep eating pizza in the small hours of the morning, a man playing on his Gameboy … Continue reading New Video: Mount Moriah – Baby Blue
The new EP from Nate Leavitt & The Elevation is called Someone Send A Signal, and can best be described as ghost folk – as if the spirits of Neil Young, Wilco and Butch Walker met up late one night for a secret recording session down in Muscle Shoals. Intense, moody and blending elements of roots, Americana and rock, it is the convergence of Leavitt’s musical … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Nate Leavitt & The Elevation
Spearheaded by Mark Charles Heidinger, and taking their cues somewhere between the tales of Bob Dylan and the bourbon-soaked stories of Tom Waits, Vandaveer are one of our favourite Americana bands, melding folk and country traditions into beautifully constructed songs and stories that stay long in the heart and the mind. Latest album The Wild Mercury is out next month and the latest track to be … Continue reading Another From Vandaveer
Richmond Fontaine have announced their forthcoming album, You Can’t Go Back If There’s Nothing To Go Back To will be the band’s final release. It will be released via Decor Records and is their tenth album in all, and their first for five long years. Songwriter, Willy Vlautin, says of the album “This record was written for all the guys we know who have hit the wall, … Continue reading Richmond Fontaine – Don’t Skip Out On Me
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