Never Closer by Firestation is a genuine psych-pop delight delivering a more than addictive mix of sweetly fuzzy guitars and distorted drum machine with squeals of feedback and half spoken cryptic lyrics. It spirals into pop choruses and crashes to an abrupt halt in under three minutes. Have a listen. . Continue reading MM Shorts 586: Firestations
The latest single from Wye Oak’s spring release Shriek is Logic Of Color, a song the duo describe as both “the most straightforward pop song we’ve ever made” and “open-ended, like an unfinished thought“. Have a listen. . Continue reading MM Shorts 584: Wye Oak
We have hitherto managed to remain fairly impervious to the charms of Bear In Heaven, but Time Between, the first taste from forthcoming new album Time Is Over One Day Old is set to change all that. It kicks off innocently enough, then after ten seconds veers into a soundtrack from a forgotten 70s horror flick, then morphs by way of classic Secret Machines into something that … Continue reading MM Shorts 576: Bear In Heaven
We’re loving these two new tracks from Gorgeous Bully. Dissolve has just the right amount of everything. Just the right amount of fuzz, just the right amount of yearning in the vocals, just the right amount of driving percussion, just the right amount of …Just. The. Right. Amount. I Kept Your Teeth In A Jar By My Bed is frankly, the best title for a … Continue reading More From Gorgeous Bully
The KVB is the audio/visual project of London youngsters, Nicholas Wood and Kat Day, who combine reverb heavy wall of sound guitars, minimal haunting strings and grinding bass synths with messed up motorik drum machine beats and delay drenched vocals. Their Out Of Body mini album will be released on the 3rd June on A Recordings, and the sonically hypnotic Across The Sea is more … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… The KVB
Previously we’ve just offered Best of the Month postings with downloads, but that excludes so many quality songs we’ve decided to just post our favourite tracks – irrespective of whether they are free to download or not. If you like them add them to your Spotify playlists or do the old fashioned thing and download them from iTunes, Bandcamp, or wherever. Anyway, with a bit … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Months: March – May (Part 1)
It has taken more than three years but at last The Phantom Band are back with a new album Strange Friend. Their bold experimentation with krautrock, folk, electronics, all melded and seamed within a mine of good old fashioned indie-rock has long been missed round this parts and it is good to report that the first taste from the new record, The Wind That Cried … Continue reading Welcome Return Of The Phantom Band
The noir trip hop of Lady Vengeance is showcased perfectly in this new animated video from the Moulettes and featuring Emma Richardson of Band of Skulls. . Continue reading Video: The Moulettes – Lady Vengeance
Not Kings is the title song of the forthcoming debut album from Candy Says, Oxford’s lo-fi recording collective, Camilla closes the record. The album is out on the 28th May and is a twelve song collection of off-kilter, experimental garage pop that defies categorisation (despite all our best efforts in this same sentence). It is quirky, sometimes jaunty, sometimes maudlin, often perplexing and undeniably affecting. Listen … Continue reading Candy Says – Not Kings
1. First Aid Kit – Cedar Lane 2. Rose Windows – There Is A Light 3. The Antlers – Hotel 4. Hamilton Leithauser – In The Shallows 5. Vomitface – Sloppy Joes . . . . . . Continue reading Five Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
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