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
After four years away, Sennen returned with details of a new album, First Light, and a new track of dream-pop inspired shoegaze in the form of the ear-phone friendly Autopilot. Now the four-piece have given us Still Dark, a brisk metronomic and chorus-less single confirming their existence in the outer reaches – of both sound and music. Stream it below. twitter-follow screen_name=’madmackerel’] Continue reading More From Sennen
We’re a bit late to the party this weekend with our round-up of the best of the new releases of the past seven days. No matter – consider it a nice late finish to Sunday or a nice new start to the new week. Courtney Barnett – Three Packs A Day Woods – Sun City Creeps Soft Fangs – Birthday Matthew And The Atlas – … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This/Last Week
Long standing MM faves Shearwater will return with a new album, Jet Plane and Oxbow later this month (out on the 22nd), and by all accounts it is their biggest and their loudest yet. Stream Only Child below. Remind yourself of Quiet Americans the excellent first taste from the album here. Catch them live: Feb. 17 – London – Islington Assembly Hall Feb. 18 – … Continue reading New Album From Shearwater
Tall Grass, is the first single from the almost completed album by Minneapolis foursome The Chambermaids, will be released on Old Blackberry Way/Guilt Ridden Pop. A beguiling mix of dream pop and noise rock, the result is a dreamy and expansive take on reverb-soaked minimalism. Have a listen. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 91 – The Chambermaids
Swedish trio A Nighthawk release their debut full-length Ice In The Belly, Fire In The Mind via their own imprint Dead Dandelion Collective, on 26th February. A confident distillation of rhythm, songcraft and texture: signposts to Lykke Li, Susanne Sundfør, Beach House or perhaps a Nordic Cocteau Twins populate the album – giving the songs an eerie, sometimes Lynch-ian feel. Listen to Dune, and you’ll hear exactly … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 77 – A Nighthawk
As Caviare Days would put it, take some North American surf, South American tropicalia, psychedelic fuzzy guitars, floating vocals and a tough-to-beat kinda groove, mix it all in and what you get is pretty much exactly what this band is all about. It is definitely what is being heard on new single More Than One out now on label259. Listen here. 100 Posts in 100 … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 59 – Caviare Days
Tackling themes of love and human consciousness, New Orleans singer-songwriter Daniel Amedee’s track Everything Will Change mixes meditative beats and haunting, blues vocals to create an exquisite urban folk anthem. It is the title track off his upcoming EP out in early February. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of 2015. Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 37 – Daniel Amedee
Words are inadequate when the world loses someone like David Bowie. A visionary, icon, innovator and musical genius. Even this past summer he soundtracked our holiday drives around the orange groves of Valencia, the whole car singing along to Space Oddity and the Jean Genie… Here then, in no particular order, are twenty of our favourite David Bowie songs. … Continue reading RiP: David Bowie
And so here is the final personal Top Twenty of the year. This time it is my turn! Another twelve months neatly wrapped up and delivered for your listening pleasure and here’s to 2016… 20. Quiet Hollers – Mont Blanc An apocalyptic, “end-is-nigh” rolling, country rock anthem. Pure poetry with the best coda to a song I heard all year, “shed a tear for the books … Continue reading MM’S BEST OF THE YEAR: MAD MACKEREL’S TOP TWENTY SONGS
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