Lockdown has given us an opportunity to get a little more up to date with our posts and to catch up, a little, with some of the many, many tunes that come our way. Given it is Friday and a Bank Holiday here in the UK, we’ve rounded up a few tunes that we would have liked to have given a bit more time and … Continue reading Something For The Weekend…
Squid have released a new lyric video for their propulsive and experimental recent single Sludge, it is composed from fans’ footage of their isolation experiences. Working with visual artist Ali Amiri (who first uploaded a clip of isolation from Tehran) and Warp, Squid asked fans to submit a 360º video of wherever they were locked down to make a music video. Following cancelled shows and plans due … Continue reading New Video: Squid – Sludge
We have been eagerly waiting for Protomartyr’s fifth studio album Ultimate Success Today, but due to the pandemic, it has been put back from its original release date at the end of this month to the 17th July. They have also cancelled all their planned live shows. So to console ourselves we at least have a second track from the record to enjoy. Worm In … Continue reading Protomartyr – Worm In Heaven
Small Song is a single taken from Paddlefish’s new album Flyer. The album was written over the course of principal songwriter Owen Misterovich’s first year away from his hometown of Springfield, Missouri, and inspired by the disappointment he experienced after moving to Chicago at the age of seventeen, where he found himself braving the first harsh winter in a windowless dorm room in the heart … Continue reading Paddlefish – Small Song
LA duo Gum Country’s self-described “harsh twee” project began back in Vancouver as a series of lo-fi four track recordings made in an apartment, very quietly. After relocating, the pair recorded their debut full-length album Somewhere, which draws on influences from Sterelolab and The Replacements to The Magnetic Fields and Yo La Tengo. The record is out on the 19th June and the second single from … Continue reading Gum Country – Tennis (I Feel OK)
Singer-songwriter Cass McCombs has released a new standalone single The Wine of Lebanon, which has been done in partnership with Universal Audio and their new recording system LUNA. According to McCombs, “The Wine of Lebanon is a song that centers around the line: ‘what can I offer you?‘, it is about ritual offerings to the departed and wine as allegory for life.” Stream it below and watch … Continue reading Cass McCombs – The Wine of Lebanon
Benjamin Shaw originally released his marvellous debut There’s Always Hope, There’s Always Cabernet back in 2011 and now Audio Antihero are offering a completely remastered resissue on a pay what you want deal via Bandcamp. It includes no less than eleven bonus recordings including unreleased and radio session recordings. All this seemed a perfect excuse to remind ourselves just how good, and unique, these eclectic … Continue reading Benjamin Shaw’s There’s Always Hope, There’s Always Cabernet Remastered and Reissued
Much heralded London six-piece Sports Team will release their debut album Deep Down Happy on the 19th June. It is collection of sharply drawn pen portraits of small-town torments, inequality and escapism that documents modern Britain in all its messy, messed-up complexity. They have shared a new single and video from it and the upbeat, hectic Going Soft is about a vibrant slice of exuberant indie rock … Continue reading Sports Team – Going Soft
Visceral Liverpool art-rock foursome SPQR have shared the title track from their third EP No Brain, No Pain which is out now (order here). Having already shared EP openers Nuthin Gud and the excellent Just Sumfin, the latest track is a bouncy, layered slice of quirky pop with an undeniably catchy bassline. Check them all out below. Continue reading SPQR – No Brain, No Pain EP
A long time ago West Virginian Jason Ward was a favourite on MM, particularly of Mrs M as one of his songs, the acerbic Bless You was a perfectly timed tune for a somewhat tricky period. Anyway, he has returned under the moniker of Spiteful Bum with a new album of lo-fi garage pop which he describes as “singing about our lives, your lives, depression, love, lust, anger and … Continue reading Spiteful Bum – Jot Down The Dope
The Mad Mackerel 