Despite it being the height of the holiday season we’ve still collected together ten new songs for you from the past week. They include the return of Warpaint as well as more new tracks from Cass McCombs, Cheena, Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam, and JEFF The Brotherhood, and some lovely folk from Lisa / Liza. Explore away… Cass McCombs – Medusa’s Outhouse of Montreal – Let’s Relate … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Here is a second track from Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster (of the Water Liars) upcoming solo release Constant Stranger which is out on the last day of September via Big Legal Mess. Laid Low is another exquisitely presented slice of folky Americana from an album of eleven songs that feel more like snapshots documented, processed, and archived, filled with stories and images of how the small and often overlooked … Continue reading More From Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster
Belying it’s somewhat melancholy message, American Dream from Cereus Bright’s recently released debut album Excuses is a lovely example of their easy-going strummed Americana. Similarly with second track, Claustrophobic which has a touch more urgency, but still features some lovely harmonies and guitar work. Nice stuff. Listen to both below. Buy from Bandcamp here. Continue reading MM Shorts 865: Cereus Bright
Having spent a mighty fine week soaking up the sunshine in Crete we are feeling pretty good about life. And if that wasn’t enough here are ten of the best of the week’s new releases (as judged by us of course). They Include the very welcome return of fire and brimstone gothic folkies Wovenhand and Argentinian garage-posters Las Kellies, cracking tracks from Bueno and Okkervil River, … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We posted about apocalyptic folk duo The Survivalists and their debut album back at the beginning of the year. They are in the midst of recording the follow-up, Plagiarism is the Sincerest Form of Stealing, and have shared the excellent first single with us titled When The Shit Hit The Fan. It hums along at a fair pace and reminds us of The Dutchess & The Duke crossed … Continue reading New From The Survivalists
Based out of New York and backed by the Restless Daughters, Kate Vargas is a singer-songwriter taking her cues from the classic outlaw country artists like Merle and Willie but isn’t afraid to add in some bluegrass, some dark-folk, and pretty much anything else that takes her fancy. Think somewhere between Shovels & Rope, Tom Waits and Nina Simone… Check out a couple of tracks from … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Kate Vargas
New Zealand’s Aldous Harding’s music is not for the faint of heart. Disarming in its desolate imagery and stark instrumentation, it deals with the raw materials of life: death, birth, grief and love. There are few happy endings, but the power is in how Harding enters into battle; with a dancer’s grace and a boxer’s stance. Comparisons could be made with contemporaries Marissa Nadler and … Continue reading Aldous Harding – Stop Your Tears
We’ve become very taken with this track Palmilla, the third song released off Motel Radio’s forthcoming new EP Desert Surf Films, which will be released on August 12, via Roll Call Records. It is a lovely, breezy slice of rolling Americana with a tinge of surfy, psych rock woven seamlessly throughout. It follows the equally lovely Gimme Your Love and any fans of Houndmouth or Great American Canyon … Continue reading Motel Radio – Desert Surf Films EP
Despite boasting a moniker than suggests some kind of hardcore thrash punk outfit, Organised Scum are altogether more subtle than that. Instead they deal in off-beat, melodic arrangements more akin to Pavement, Lambchop, or XTC. The duo’s debut double-A-side single, Insane Making Behaviour/Who’s the Prick? officially came out yesterday and is a top quality combo of stoner-folk, slacker melancholy and svelte indie-pop. Listen below or download both tracks for free here. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Organised Scum
Here they are, all wrapped and presented in a tidy bow for you. Ten new songs from the past week including Screaming Females, Goat, Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam, of Montreal, a gorgeous new song from Alex Bleeker and an excellent cover of Gun Club’s classic Sex Beat by Katy Goodman & Greta Morgan. Good stuff indeed. Happy weekend. Screaming Females – Skeleton Jeff The Brotherhood – Punishment … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
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