Following the success of last year’s excellent Twelve Nudes long player,, Ezra Furman is back with Sex Education OST, songs from season 1 and 2 of the hit Netflix TV show. The 19-track LP will be released via Bella Union and is available to stream or download from today, with a physical release on CD and vinyl to follow on 10th April (order here). The … Continue reading Ezra Furman – Sex Education OST
We’ve decided to do things a bit differently this year – too many times in the past we’ve posted our favourite songs of the year and then discovered late releases we wished we’d added! And also 2019 was a shit year for the world – Brexit, Johnson, Trump, the world burning… at least there is music. So, way after everyone else has done theirs, here … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Songs of 2019 (Part 1)
Marissa Nadler & Stephen Brodsky, who released a critically acclaimed collaborative album Droneflower on Sacred Bones earlier this year have shared two cover songs that make up a new single via Sacred Bones – Phil Collins’ In The Air Tonight and Extreme’s More Than Words. Being unfortunately old enough to be of an age where I can remember the original, it must be said that I absolutely loathed In the Air … Continue reading Marissa Nadler & Stephen Brodsky Announce Two Covers
A few weeks ago we shared some tracks from Uncut magazine’s Wilco covers CD. Longstanding MM faves The Handsome Family also contributed a cover – of Capitol City – from 2011’s The Whole Love. Like pretty much everything they do, it is wonderful and Loose have now released it as a single. Enjoy. And the original… Continue reading The Handsome Family – Capitol City (Wilco cover)
In celebration of Halloween, watch Death Valley Girls’ new video for Wear Black, which is taken from their excellent 2018 release Darkness Rains via Suicide Squeeze Records. Their world is a fusion of feral proto-punk, ‘70s scuzz dirges, and third eye mysticism and we love it…. Continue reading New Video: Death Valley Girls – Wear Black
Smoke Fairies have announced the release their first album for four years. Darkness Brings The Wonders Home will be released on January 31st coupled with new tour dates for the band. In the making of the new record, the duo drew inspiration from mysteries both real and imagined: sea monsters, flocks of crows taking flight in extravagant formation, strange creatures dwelling in the mud near … Continue reading Smoke Fairies New Album & Single
Known for delivering layered echo-drenched guitar with heavy, relentless drums, London based duo Black Doldrums are returning with their expansive new EP She Divine on Club AC30. The title refers to Aldous Huxley’s 1954 psychedelia-induced masterpiece The Doors of Perception, where constant reference is made to the search for divinity and how all cultures are united in the need for that same search. Utilising waves of … Continue reading Black Doldrums – She Divine EP
T. Hardy Morris -Scare Easy (Mudcrutch cover) Damien Jurado – Throw Me Now Into Your Arms Cate le Bon – Daylight Matters Calexico And Iron & Wine – Father Mountain Wand – Walkie Talkie An Horse – This Is A Song Weyes Blood – Movies Honeyblood – Glimmer The Dream Syndicate – Put Some Miles On Mitski – Let’s Get Married (Bleachers cover) Cherry Pickles … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Emerging from a five year silence and guided by warped guitar tones, menacing drums, and thundering bass, the new sound that Chicago post-punk foursome Walking Bicycles present on their new release Chooch is louder than anything they’ve recorded before. With echoes of Siouxsie & The Banshees doom laden gothica, take a listen to Fat Cat, and latest single, the fearsome ESP below. Order the album here. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Walking Bicycles
Droneflower is the new collaboration between MM regular Marissa Nadler and Stephen Brodsky (of Mutoid Man, Cave In). It will be released by Sacred Bones on the 26th April. As might be imagined, it is a sprawling and expansive exercise in contrasts – the sound of the war between the brutal and the ethereal, the depths of darkness and piercing light, and the real and imagined. The … Continue reading Marissa Nadler & Stephen Brodsky Collaborate on Droneflower
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