No less than ten songs for you this week including the return of The Shins, a brilliant new protest song from Kevin Morby as well as new tunes from The Orwells, Futurebirds, Thee Oh Sees, Horse Thief and a tasty cover from Hinds. We also have our first official seasonal posting – slightly dubiously as it is still October – but it is She & Him so … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
With very little fanfare (so it seems) the wonderful Cave Singers have shared a new song. On their Facebook page, they simply describe You Don’t Know Me as a dreamy number. Turns out they’re right. Have a listen. Continue reading New From The Cave Singers
We’re loving All The While, the first taste from Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Void), the debut album from Hand Habits (aka Meg Duffy). With a organic pensive feel, it is a beautifully constructed song imbued with just the right amount of yearning and intimacy. Gorgeous stuff. Have a listen. Continue reading Hand Habits – All The While
We shared Quiet Quiet Band’s excellent In The Body at the start of the month, but here is the band’s new video for the track. The song is a deliciously lilting country-swing voyaging on a sashaying groove of woody bass and shuffling brushes, while violas flurry and electric guitars flare. Continue reading New Video: Quiet Quiet Band – In The Body
Here they are, all rounded up in a nice neat package for you – eight new releases from the past week. They include the return of punk blues band Boss Hog after sixteen years, and of desert blues aficionados Tiniariwen as well as new singles from IDLES, Our Girl, and Sundara Karma amongst others. Enjoy! Boss Hog – Wichita Grey IDLES – Well Done Esme Patterson – Not Feeling … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
An unorthodox collaboration borne of Paris and Wales, Fauna Twin is a duo combining ultra suave pop, Lynchian imagery and macabre lyrics rooted in traditional folklore and coming together into one catchy as hell psychedelic labyrinth. A kind of hybrid shoegazish-drama-pop if you will. On their new Hydra EP, standard pop arrangements are twisted into something unique, innovative and subtly savage, and nowhere more so than on Edge of … Continue reading Fauna Twin – Hydra EP
We have too many good videos for too many good songs in our inbox and it would not be right not to share. So we will be dedicating the rest of today to video only posts… Seventh up is The Wharves who combine gracefully minimal psyche-rock with fuzzed out folk, and the video for L’autre. Continue reading Video Tuesday: (7) The Wharves
We have too many good videos for too many good songs in our inbox and it would not be right not to share. So we will be dedicating the rest of today to video only posts… Our third offering comes from Jack Ingram and the late-night Americana feel of I’m Drinking Through It. Continue reading Video Tuesday: (3) Jack Ingram
The in-box overfloweth with new tunes, videos and music of every variety. Even once we’ve deleted the electro-trance-house-mash-up-rave-bangers and all the shitty remixes there are still far too many good tracks to share with you. Here are ten of them – from baroque pop to slacker indie rock and from pastoral Americana to garage punk. An eclectic digital jukebox and something for anyone with a modicum … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 25)
Dark Stream is the new single from Northern Ireland’s Arborist. Beginning with a stark, quasi-funeral horn it launches in to a haunting and affecting lament, awash with typically gorgeous melodies and arrangements that showcase Mark McCambridge’s rich vocals and thoughtful songwriting. We’ve already shared the six minute ramble of A Man Of My Age and the subtly melancholic I Heard Him Leaving, but this may … Continue reading Arborist Share Dark Stream
The Mad Mackerel 