Deathlist is the lo-fi solo project of Portland-based multi-instrumentalist Jenny Logan, exploring themes of loss, grief, survival, love, and dreams in the vein of Mazzy Star, Suicide, and The Jesus and Mary Chain. Her new album You Won’t Be Here For Long is out on the 29th May and we have a couple of tracks for you: a stream of the woozy and sinister title … Continue reading Deathlist – You Won’t Be Here For Long
Car Seat Headrest’s latest single from upcoming album Making A Door Less Open is called Hollywood. Check out the video for it here: a fun/riotous/terrifying take on Hollywood culture, with Will Toledo at his megaphone-screaming best, while the animated video sees his alter ego Trait taking a simultaneously exhilarating and terrifying haunted ride through Tinseltown. The album is released on the 1st May via Matador Records … Continue reading Car Seat Headrest – Hollywood Video
House of York is the brilliantly propulsive debut single from London four piece TV Priest. Sitting happily somewhere between post-punk, prog and kraut-rock, the band cite the likes of PiL, Stereolab, Ought and The Fall among their formative influences. Watch / stream the single below – a wiry, tense rumination on our approach to class and the philosophical and psychological impact a monarchy has had on … Continue reading introducing >>> TV Priest
Hard to believe it has been five years since Manchester based trio PINS released Wild Nights. Again we’re a bit late to the party, but Hot Slick, their third long player will be out on 29th May via their own Haus of Pins label. Three tracks have already been shared from it (see below) and now we have Ghosting, which also features Nathan Saoudi from Fat … Continue reading PINS – Hot Slick
Here is a second taste from the upcoming album Vincent’s Playlist from Virginia Trance. After the ruminative Hello Lou Reed, new single Sway mines classic 80s indie pop evoking a gauzy and lush atmosphere of psychedelic jingle-jangle reveries that echo the likes of Felt or the Dream Syndicate. Stream it here. The album is out on the 8th May – you can order from Bandcamp … Continue reading More From Virginia Trance
Singer-songwriter Laura Marling has shared details of a surprise new album which will be released on Friday 10th April via Chrysalis/Partisan. It is her seventh solo release, and titled Song For Our Daughter, it’s preceded with the first single, Held Down. With a touch of melodic poppiness to it, you can stream it below. Continue reading Laura Marling Announces New Album, Shares Held Down
Following on from their debut album 3D Routine, Leeds art rockers Mush have shared their new single Fear Index which is taken from their upcoming 5 track 7” EP Great Artisanal Formats, which will be released via Memphis Industries on 20th June for RecordStore Day 2020. The single is a crisp one minute forty seconds, juxtaposing lead-singer Dan Hyndman’s existential woes against absurdist guitar wrangling. Stream … Continue reading Mush – Fear Index
Damien Jurado recently announced details of his new album What’s New, Tomboy? which sees him stepping back into a more fleshed out sound with his voice and rhythm section at the fore. it is a collection of songs that exude the inviting warmth of a lone porch light gleaming amidst the disorienting darkness. On latest single Alice Hyatt, the sparse instrumental elements add a deeper … Continue reading Damien Jurado – Alice Hyatt
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever’s highly anticipated second album, Sideways To New Italy will be released on Friday 5th June. They have already shared a first single Cars In Space and their new single, She’s There, is a cosmic, wistful love song championed by surging guitar riffs, driving beats and lots of energy. Listen to both below. Continue reading Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – She’s There
A little earlier this month, we were very sad to learn of the loss of Psychic Ills founder, frontman, and songwriter Tres Warren at just 41 years old. Regulars on MM, at the time of his death, Warren was overflowing with creativity, actively writing new songs, and excited about the next phase of the band and was getting ready to go into the studio alongside … Continue reading Psychic Ills Release Never Learn Not To Love / Cease To Exist 7″
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