Love Buzzard have merged their excellent garage/psych stomper Give it Some Range with Dalston illustrator Russell Taysom to produce what could be this year’s best animated spectacular… Watch it below. Then stream Passion and then pre-order their debut EP here. . . Continue reading New Video: Love Buzzard – Give It Some Range
We love Angel Olsen’s Burn Your Fire For No Witness release from early in the year, and now one of our favourite tracks from it, Unfucktheworld has been covered by lo-fi, ‘nightmare pop’ duo Bent Denim. Well worth a listen. . Continue reading Bent Denim Cover Angel Olsen
Here is the official video for the Decemberists’ new track Make You Better. They say, “filmed on location in a 1977 Berlin backlot, the video has your humble Decemberists performing on the time-honored Old Blue Rock Palace Show.” . Continue reading New Video: The Decemberists – Make You Better
Bloodlet is the first single from Munroe’s debut EP, set for release in February on Hidden Pony. It is a chilling folk-noir ballad steeped in Southern Gothic creepiness…listen to the most hypnotic, disconcerting, and compelling two minutes you’ll spend all day. Right up MM’s street. Stream/download it below. . Continue reading MM Shorts 635: Munroe – Bloodlet
Ruby Fray is the moniker of Austin-via-Olympia songwriter Emily Beanblossom, who released her sophomore album Grackle this fall on K Records. Dubbed “psychedelic witch wave,” her sound is dark & dissonant, with haunting vocals that have been likened to Nancy Sinatra, Lana Del Rey, Hope Sandoval and PJ Harvey. Watch the chilling video for Barbara… . . Continue reading New Video: Ruby Fray – Barbara
Lola is the latest track to be shared from Alex Calder’s upcoming debut album Strange Dreams (out via Captured Tracks on the 20th January). Artfully pitched somewhere between indie jangle and drowsy, hazy psych-pop, Lola offers a dark enchantment all of its own, like reaching for the stars whilst wading through the silt at the bottom of a pond. Watch/stream it here. . Continue reading Alex Calder – Lola
Soulful, folk troubadour Nathaniel Rateliff will release a new six-track EP in January titled Closer. Have a listen to the title track that is a perfectly judged exercise in sparsely beautiful, yet genuinely emotive, songwriting that uses the seasons as a metaphor for the ups and downs of a relationship. . Continue reading New EP From Nathaniel Rateliff
Dear friends, here is our weekly selection of fine new tunes you really should have already heard by now… …but if not! 1. Steve Earle & The Dukes – You’re The Best Lover I Ever Had 2. Colleen Green – Pay Attention 3. A Place To Bury Strangers – Straight 4. Elvis Perkins – Hogus Pogus 5. Marissa Nadler – Pitseleh (Elliott Smith cover) 6. … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
American Wrestlers is a new signing to the excellent Fat Possum label, and his debut single is titled I Can Do No Wrong. Born near Glasgow and now residing in Missouri he sits in a world similar to Kurt Vile and Granddaddy, and has that classic American lo-fi indie sound. The single is a gorgeous slice of jaunty psych-pop and we recommend wrapping your ears around it immediately. … Continue reading MM Shorts 634: American Wrestlers
After an eleven year hiatus Eric Fifteen’s Party of One is back with a new album, Streetside Surprise, the follow up to their lone long-player Caught The Blast. The first track from it is the darkly subdued, and slightly menacing post-punk of Watch While The Heads Roll. Download it below – not too sure when the album will see the light of day…. . Continue reading Party Of One – Watch While The Heads Roll
The Mad Mackerel 