Bristol’s Meadowlark have unveiled a brand single, Quicksand. With its sparse arrangement and crystalline vocals, it is an emotive, captivating song written after the duo were deeply moved by a story on Humans of New York (HONY) about a family working in a brick kiln in Pakistan. The pair weren’t the only ones moved by the words and photos of the HONY post, within mere days … Continue reading Meadowlark – Quicksand
Residual Echoes frontman Adam Payne releases his new solo album Famous Blondes on the 22nd July via Selection Records. It is a record where no genre, style, or sound is hands-off. There’s the late-night folk funk of Tell Me and Nightmare, the ham-fisted fey glam of Eyes of the World, the neon go-kart slow burner U. Angel, and even doo-wop filth in Open Up. Stream Tell Me below. Continue reading MM Shorts 857: Adam Payne
Here is this week’s round up of new tunes. We have nine tracks for you from the kaleidoscopic pop of Ezra Furman to the fuzzy shambling pop of Fireworks by way of the infectious hooks of Dogbreth and the Mercury Rev inspired psych of Avers. Enjoy. Cass McCombs – Run Sister Run Ezra Furman – Teddy I’m Ready Tacocat – I Live For The Sun (Sunrays … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Singer-songwriter Daniel Pearson will release his new single titled 4th July on June 17th. The immediately infectious track is a freewheeling slice of Americana that welds driving guitars, Johnny n’ June vocal harmonies and raucous harmonica into an ironic tale of love gone sour that fizzes by in under three minutes. Spin it below. Continue reading MM Shorts 854: Daniel Pearson
Well, on this gloomiest of weeks a little ray of sunshine perhaps with some new music gathered up from the best of the last seven days (oh the irony). So while Johnson and Gove revel in the toxic slime of their own making and the Labour Party implodes, hit play on nine new songs from the likes of Devendra Banhart, ShitKid, Wymond Miles, The Wind-Up Birds and covers … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Today is a sad day. A day I am sad to say I feel embarrassed to be “English”. A day I feel impotent rage at the Tory party’s supreme arrogance that constant austerity measures and cuts after cuts after cuts aimed at the poorest and the weakest wouldn’t leave people feeling ever more disenfranchised and disconnected from the world. A day I feel impotent rage … Continue reading WTF!
Oxford, MS-based Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster – the singer/guitarist for long standing MM faves Water Liars – will release his debut solo album Constant Stranger on the 30th September via Big Legal Mess/Fat Possum. With evocative imagery of the natural world, Constant Stranger seamlessly blends deeply personal ruminations on family, lovers, a musician’s transient life, and the frequently confounding nature of existence – and creates a … Continue reading Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster of Water Liars Announces Solo Album
We were delighted to hear of the return of singer-songwriter Adam Torres and have already shared the lovely High Lonesome from his forthcoming album Pearls to Swine, which is out on the 9th September. Now we have another track for you – sprawling in scope and devastating in content, this time it is the hauntingly eerie and moving six minutes of Outlands. Listen below. Continue reading Another From Adam Torres
Husband and wife duo Shovels & Rope write literate, Southern Gothic infused songs of a uniformly high quality – one that sets them apart from the vast majority of their contemporaries. They will release their new album Little Seeds on their new label New West Records on 7th October. With song titles such as Botched Execution, Mourning Song, The Last Hawk and subject matters ranging from Alzheimer’s … Continue reading Shovels & Rope – Little Seeds
Dan Michaelson and the Coastguards’ excellent new album Memory is out now through The state51 Conspiracy. It is a record that is concerned with recollection and our ability to twist and warp history, rewriting the past each time we try to retrieve it. The band’s new single Tides (out on 8th July), is appropriately named as it ebbs and flows, telling the story of a person who throws … Continue reading Dan Michaelson and the Coastguards – Tides
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