Brooklyn’s Journalism will release Faces in early March. The quartet’s debut blends boisterous indie rock, fuzzy krautrock, reverberating post-punk, and big hook-fueled pop songs to create anxious and contemplative art-pop. First single Watching & Waiting is the band at their most immediate, a straight forward look into the swirling world of the band’s melodic immersion. Listen here. Continue reading MM Shorts 826: Journalism
Following the release of their well received debut Horse Dance ate last year Sweden’s Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation return with a brand new edit of album track Sunny Afternoon. Taking a tribal Can meets Adam and the Ant’s’ like beat, fuzz bass, heavy synths and piano they create a gothy, psych pop groove that is hard to resist. Try it on for size. Continue reading Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation – Sunny Afternoon
With her much anticipated fourth album Crab Day due for release 15th April on Turnstile Records, and some live UK dates coming up, Cate Le Bon has today unveiled a video for new single Wonderful. Shot in Berlin, the video features Le Bon performing an idiosyncratic freeform dance-cum-exercise routine. Of the video, she simply says: “‘Wonderful’ is an awkward love song accompanied by an equally awkward video. … Continue reading New Video: Cate Le Bon – Wonderful
Hit Bargain are a Los Angeles punk outfit, and progenitors of a new genre — “queencore“, the intersection of queer, queening and hardcore. They have shared the second track from their forthcoming self-titled debut EP, out on the 25th March. Song For Fainting literally tells the tale of someone collapsing in the street, but from both the passerby’s and the fainter’s perspectives. It was inspired by a real-life … Continue reading Hit Bargain – Song For Fainting
We’ve previously posted a couple of tracks from Stockholm garage rock combo Pinemen. Following on from their six-track debut EP Pleasant Pain, which found the band exploring garage rock, lo-fi pop and psychedelia, in a summery sound with a Scandinavian twist, the band is currently recording their debut LP. The album is scheduled for a autumn release this year, but in the meantime they’re releasing the stand-alone single … Continue reading Pinemen – Predictions
No less than ten marvellous tracks gathered up in the Mad Mackerel butterfly net this week to share with you. From the pulverising ferocity of Future of the Left and White Lung’s blistering power-pop to the fragile Mothers and sweet Americana of Radical Face. Enjoy! White Lung – Hungry Future Of The Left – If AT&T Drank Tea What Would BP Do? Mothers – Mother … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Fuzzy London noiseniks Slowcoaches have revealed a music video to accompany their new single Ex Head, which is out today via Leisure & District. The second half of it features vocalist/bassist Heather Perkins eating her own head in cake form! The video’s concept is a cathartic realization of the song’s theme – “The title refers to two things; having someone on your mind all the time … Continue reading New Video: Slowcoaches – Ex Head
Indie rockers Twin Peaks have unveiled the video for new single, Walk To The One You Love, taken from their forthcoming new album Down In Heaven. Filmed in the band’s home city of Chicago it follows various pairs of feet on a continuous one-shot take through a stretch of Ravenswood Street. Featuring a cast of friends and family and including guest appearances by singer and guitarist … Continue reading New Video: Twin Peaks – Walk To The One You Love
Parquet Courts have shared the video for new song Berlin Got Blurry from forthcoming long player Human Performance. It tells a tale of existential nausea, confusion, and finding oneself in a place you don’t recognise and is one of the band’s most accessible songs yet, a jangly affair with a serpentine guitar lick that’s as dizzying as it is memorable. Watch it below. Continue reading New Video: Parquet Courts – Berlin Got Blurry
Sheffield’s mighty fine indie-punks, Nai Harvest, have announced a new double A-side single, Just Like You / Jelly, and it marks the first new material from the band since last year’s critically acclaimed full length Hairball. Listen below to Just Like You, which captures more of the fuzzed-out and immediate sound showcased on the album while also channeling the slacker-rock sentiment of fan favorite, the Hold Open … Continue reading New From Nai Harvest
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