Sweden’s Kid Wave have announced details of the release of a new single, Honey on June 8th via Heavenly Recordings. It’s an early contender for indie-anthem of the year – with echoes of U2’s one decent song I Will Follow in the guitar work – it shimmers and swoops with a BIG chorus at its heart. Resistance is futile. Stream it here. Continue reading Kid Wave – Honey
Bonding over the films of Kenneth Anger, the guitar work of Lou Reed and William Reid, the writing of Jean Genet, and the shirtless figures of David Hockney paintings, San Francisco trio Flesh World slowly built songs filled with brooding post-punk darkness and outsider pop – all in between hanging out at drag bars and punk shows. Just To Tear Me Down comes from new album The Wild … Continue reading MM Shorts 691: Flesh World
Norwegian songstress Siv Jakobsen releases her second single, the haunting and melancholic Dark via Nordic Mellow Records on 13th April. It is a follow up to How We Used To Love, and explores themes of mortality, loneliness and existential angst. Give it a spin here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 690: Siv Jakobsen
We are loving The Magic Gang’s forthcoming debut single No Fun, backed with Alright, which is released on the 16th April via Telharmonium Records. With a ominous, hypnotic opening it calls to mind the best of the Fat White Family’s grimy, post-punk bump and grind before morphing into an effortlessly slack slice of sunshine soaked guitar pop, full of dawdling chord changes and hazy vocal harmonies … Continue reading The Magic Gang – No Fun 7″
Borrowing the name of the building they lived in, and guided by a deep appreciation for the folk and psychedelic pop of the sixties and seventies, Elstow draw on the sounds of bands like Jefferson Airplane, Jimmie Spheeris, and early Pink Floyd, coupled with an infatuation with nineties alt-psych idols Brian Jonestown Massacre and Mazzy Star. New single Evil Dreams matches dreamlike psychedelic overtones with a breezy … Continue reading Elstow – Evil Dreams
Forget the eggs and celebrate Easter with a selection box of musical videos that are all pre-screened to ensure the equivalent of the orange creme hasn’t sneaked through…instead take your pick from folk, indie, psychedelia, punk, Americana…. . . . . . . . . . . . Continue reading Video Round Up
The very premature loss of Brown Bird’s Dave Lamb to leukaemia was one of the saddest events of last year, and his wife MorganEve Swain has announced the release of their final record, Axis Mundi, an album the pair recorded together before his illness took a turn for the worse. Bannermen is the first track from it, a song that highlights, as Swain says, that they were … Continue reading Brown Bird – Bannermen
Following yesterday’s posting of Riverbed from Jamie T’s upcoming EP Magnolia Melancholia, you can now listen to the title track below. Once again, brilliant. . Continue reading Jamie T – Magnolia Melancholia
Easter weekend, and a bumper collection of ten songs for you to dip into that were released this week. 1. The National – Sunshine On My Back 2. Southern – Lone Driver 3. Cheatahs – Murasaki 4. Heartless Bastards – Gates Of Dawn 5. Woodpigeon – When You Look For Trouble, Trouble Comes 6. Radkey – Parade It 7. Allo Darlin’ – Half Heart Necklace … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
New additions to the marvellous Audio Antihero roster, New York duo Frog’s offering Judy Garland (with artwork from regular MM fave Benjamin Shaw no less) is a brilliant lo-fi romp through vocal gymnastics, uptempo, infectious banjo rhythms, and a fabulous falsetto chorus. Pre-order the album Kind of Blah here. . And as a bonus here is the b side for you, the non-album track Rainbow Road. . Continue reading Introducing >>> Frog
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