2:54’s cover of a Doors classic, No Ages’s cover of a Black Flag classic and the welcome return of Other Lives heads our biggest ever weekly round up of the songs you really should have found some time to listen to already. But if not, here they are in one neat package for you. 1. 2:54 – Take It As It Comes (Doors cover) 2. WATERS … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
New York’s The Hunting Party’s new EP Sirens and Lights is released this month, and we are delighted to bring you the premiere of the latest track to be shared from it. Blue Star more than makes good on the promise of the earlier tracks the band have shared. It is a classic slice of indie-folk, beginning with Erica Lane’s sweet vocals over a sparsely plucked banjo refrain … Continue reading Premiere: The Hunting Party – Blue Star
While this may have been out since last summer, we have just gambled our remaining e-music credits on it, and discovered a marvellous album of experimental electro tinged, acoustic weirdness and freaked out psych-folk by a collective known as Silver Servants. Our attention was first grabbed by their version of the hymn Jerusalem, but cemented by the brilliant A Crow Will Remember Your Face, a maelovent, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Silver Servants
We’ve posted about the gorgeous banjo led folk of the Lowest Pair a few times on Mad Mackerel, but the latest track to be shared, In The During Of A Moment, might well be their finest yet. A sublime, simply picked folk tune with haunting vocals that are as tender as they are poignant. Give it a spin. The album, The Sacred Heart Sessions, is out on … Continue reading More From The Lowest Pair
Darling Arithmetic is the third album from Villagers, set for release in April. The follow-up to Conor O’Brien’s debut, Becoming a Jackal, and its successor, Awayland – both hugely acclaimed and each nominated for the Mercury Prize – is a beautiful, intimate album entirely about love and relationships. The opening track and first single, Courage, concerns the most important kind of love – for yourself. “It took … Continue reading New Video: Villagers – Courage
Canadian indie folkies Great Lake Swimmers will release their sixth album, A Forest Of Arms, on 21st April via Nettwerk Records. With a surging rhythm section, razor sharp violin, and flourishing banjo and guitars, they may well have created some of their most dynamic songs to date. The first taste comes with Zero In The City. Have a listen. . Continue reading New Album From Great Lake Swimmers
The warped and rather wonderful Newfoundland’s new EP Good News Is Too True is out now. With sonic nods to the Skygreen Leopards, Vetiver and Bob Dylan the EP’s sounds and textures twist and turn around you before spiralling off into a dizzying parade. Have a listen to Eserkiel. Buy from Bandcamp here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 659: Newfoundland
We’ve posted about the thoughtful, melancholic indie-folk of Portland, Oregon’s Grand Lake Islands a couple of times in the past twelve months, and Monterey is the latest single from new album Song From Far. It is a six and half minute excursion into reflective Americana that rolls along with a wistful melody and some sweet harmonies. . Continue reading Grand Lake Islands – Monterey
The American Spirit are a three-piece making the kind of thoughtful folk rock that fans of My Morning Jacket or Father John Misty might recognize. If there’s one thing their debut album, the enigmatically titled Season of Violence or Mourning, Protest, & Birth of Bishop Killborne, can be called, it’s diverse. Often shifting from dreamy, lackadaisical, free-roaming jaunts to fuzz-laden indie anthems to good ole’ folk ballads … Continue reading The American Spirit Debut Album
Calexico have announced a new album, Edge of the Sun, their first studio release since Algiers in 2012. It is a collaborative affair with contributions from Sam Beam aka Iron & Wine, Ben Bridwell from Band of Horses, Nick Urata from DeVotchka, Neko Case and plenty more. The first taste is the jaunty, latin tinged Cumbia de Donde. Have a listen. The album is out in April. . Continue reading New Calexico Album – Edge Of The Sun
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