It’s Saturday, time for our mop up of some of the tunes released this week that are well worth giving a whirl too. 1. Girlpool – Ideal World 2. Houndstooth – Borderlands 3. Death Cab For Cutie – Little Wanderer 4. Aquarian Blood – Savage Mind 5. Sheer Mag – Button Up 6. Wolf Alice – I Saw You (In A Corridor) 7. Teleman – … Continue reading Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
It’s Friday and a trawl through the overloaded MM in-box has been well overdue. So here are a few tunes, new and not quite so new, that are well worth giving some ear-time to0… And your starter for ten: Inspired by 70s Punk and 90s Brit Pop, NYC band Public Access T.V. have announced the release of their debut EP in the US on Terrible Records. … Continue reading Friday Afternoon Round Up
Robyn Hitchcock has announced a limited-release 7” for RSD on 18th April, a duet with with Australian songwriter Emma Swift. The release will feature the pair’s cover of Neil Young’s Motion Pictures along with this new track, a gorgeous, poignant country-ish ballad called Follow Your Money. Watch it here. . Continue reading New Video: Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift – Follow Your Money
Moon Mirage is the new album from Trans Van Santos, the latest incarnation of acid gospel visionary Mark Matos and his transcendent tunes. Formerly head of rambling San Francisco psych-folk collective the Family Folk Explosion, psychedelic anti-band Os Beaches, and dusty desert rockers Campo Bravo —Matos has spent decades chasing his muse. Weary eyed and ragged on the old road he had a vision and was … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Trans Van Santos
Pearl And The Beard’s beguiling mix of indie, folk, and orchestral pop has long been popular here at MM, and the trio have released a new single, the upbeat, soaring Again Animal which will feature on their upcoming long player Beast. Have a listen… . Continue reading Pearl And The Beard – Again Animal
Giant Sand, the iconic and influential band fronted by luminary Howe Gelb, celebrates 30 years of freewheeling and ever-evolving music making on new album, Heartbreak Pass, out on the 5th May via New West Records. The album spans founder Gelb’s far-reaching career and mixes the rollicking nature of the band’s 1985 debut, Valley of Rain, with the dusty alt-folk, desert-rock and jazzy lounge-piano explorations of his … Continue reading New Giant Sand Album
Aside from hitting the skins for Quilt and playing keys for Woods, John Andrews also has his hand in a whole host of other creative projects from story animation to releasing home recordings via tape. Bit By The Fang is his debut solo release via Woodsist (the Yawns are an imaginary backing band), and if the evidence of I’ll Go To Your Funeral (If You Go … Continue reading John Andrews & The Yawns – I’ll Go To Your Funeral (If You Go To Mine)
Here is our regular gathering up of some of this week’s best new releases for you. Enjoy. 1. Daughn Gibson – Shatter You Through 2. Laura Marling – Strange 3. This Is The Kit – Silver John 4. Bully – I Remember 5. Tame Impala – Let It Happen 6. Adam Torres – Dusty Wing Spirit 7. Lower Dens – Ondine 8. Mikal Cronin – ii) … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Sufjan Stevens is sharing Should Have Known Better from his forthcoming album Carrie & Lowell, which is picking up some mighty fine pre-release reviews. Thematically the album’s eleven songs address life and death, love and loss, and the artist’s struggle to make sense of the beauty and ugliness of love. The album is named for Stevens’ mother and stepfather and is a (welcome) return to … Continue reading Sufjan Stevens – Should Have Known Better
Although Johanna Warren has lent her vocal talents to artists like Natalie Merchant and Iron & Wine, she identifies primarily as a songwriter. An intuitively self-taught guitarist, she channels powerful songs in weird time signatures and melancholic open tunings, weaving adept finger-picking with acrobatic vocal lines and carefully crafted poetry, in reverence of her patron songwriting saints Elliott Smith, Joni Mitchell and Nick Drake. The … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Johanna Warren
The Mad Mackerel 