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Public Service Broadcasting – Progress

Progress is taken from Public Service Broadcasting’s upcoming third album (the subject of which remains a closely-guarded secret). Guest vocals from Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura adds a new dimension to the music. Her keening, affecting and decidedly human performance combines and contrasts with samples hinting at a world of mechanisation and automation, as Kraftwerk-like vocoders, driving guitars, propulsive drums and melodic synths all fight for … Continue reading Public Service Broadcasting – Progress

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Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Here we are again, but with lighter nights, spring flowers beginning to bloom and eight songs from the past week rounded up for your listening pleasure. From a new benefit single for the Southern Poverty Law Center, we have wonderfully spectral folk from Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and some equally wonderful psych-folk from a re-issue of a long-lost 70s classic by Philip Lewin. There is a … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

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New Happyness Single

Through Windows is the excellent new single from Happyness’ second album Write In. With a chorus that started out as kind of a purposeful mishearing of the Velvet Underground’s Ride Into The Sun, the single has a undercurrent of psych-infused, blissful euphoria that reminds us of prime-time Pink Floyd. Have a listen and check out UK tour dates below.   April Tour Dates: 11 Fulford Arms, York … Continue reading New Happyness Single

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Phobophobes – The Never Never 7″

South London’s Phobophobes share the same DIY aesthetic and healthy cynicism for the commercial world as contemporaries like Fat White Family, Meatraffle, and Goat Girl. And never more so on latest single The Never Never, an ode to the precarious survivalism of society’s most disenfranchised. Swirling through repetitive slogans, rubbishing the adverts that promise a life we can’t really afford as pastiche, and asking earnestly, … Continue reading Phobophobes – The Never Never 7″

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BAIT – Push The Elephant

BAIT’s brilliant debut track I’m Still Here was so good it made it into our end of year best of lists. Now, with an insistent hybrid of wonky electronics and angular post-punk (that tips the hat to Killing Joke, Death in Vegas, and The Fall), we get to hear Push The Elephant, the debut single proper from the anonymous audio/visual artist. Great stuff – stream it here.   Continue reading BAIT – Push The Elephant

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Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 2)

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)

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MM Shorts 917: Retail Space

We are willing to bet that You Can Catch A Lobster With Eggs But Not Egg Salad will be one of the year’s more unusual album titles. It comes from indie folk duo Retail Space and will be self-released this week (order here). Blue Jeans is the second single from it, a charming blend of folk, synth pop, and indie rock that’s as ethereal as it is emotional. Listen … Continue reading MM Shorts 917: Retail Space

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MM Shorts 914: Mr. Elevator

Mr. Elevator eschews guitars for vintage synthesizers, organs, and electric pianos, setting themselves apart somewhat within the fuzzy, distorted contemporary psych-pop scene. Their new album When The Morning Greets You is out next week via Rad Cat Records (order here), and you can listen to Ending from it below.   Continue reading MM Shorts 914: Mr. Elevator

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New Album From Mac DeMarco

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

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Twelve Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Another seven days have come and gone, although these felt infinitely more dangerous than any others. Hats off to Ewan McGregor at least this week! If nothing else it means new songs from those horrified by the new leader of the free world – so to kick us off we have offerings from Suuns, Meat Wave, Father John Misty and an update on a protest song classic … Continue reading Twelve Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

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