Perfect Abandon is the new album by singer-songwriter Tom Brosseau. Out on the 10th February next year via Crossbill Records, the first taste comes in the form of the sparsely beautiful, intimate lead single Roll Along With Me. . Continue reading New Album From Tom Brousseau
Founded in Austin in 2012, Matthew Squires and the Learning Disorders is an ever-evolving project, centered around the penetrating songs of young singer-songwriter Matthew Squires. Their new album, titled Where The Music Goes To Die, is certainly a step up from anything that has gone before. Vocals are much calmer and controlled and a fuller range of (still off-kilter and unique) songwriting is on full display as … Continue reading New Album From Matthew Squires & The Learning Disorders
Melding their indie and prog-rock influences with a folkier sensibility, and ten years after they released their debut album The Melancholy Death Of…, The Chemistry Experiment are set to release their follow-up record Gongs Played By Voice via Fortuna POP! in early January. Containing nine beautifully arranged songs that call to mind the best of Will Oldham, Tindersticks and King Crimson, have a listen to … Continue reading The Chemistry Experiment – Gongs Played By Voice
We’ve loved Houndmouth from the moment we heard their brilliant track Penitentiary back in July 2012. It was followed by an excellent debut album From The Hills Below The City last year and now they are back with For No One, the first preview of their new Rough Trade album set for release next year. The track showcases a new sparse and epic side of the Indiana … Continue reading New From Houndmouth
In all honesty the charms and delights of Deerhoof have largely bypassed us here at MM, but you should never say never and their latest album La Isla Bonita contains the stand out track Exit Only which we’ve loved since the first time we heard it. Now the song has a fittingly insane video starring Michael Shannon of Boardwalk Empire and Man Of Steel fame … Continue reading New Video: Deerhoof – Exit Only
She Keeps Bees have shared a new, beautifully shot yet slightly surreal and unsettling video for Owl, a standout track from their most recent release Eight Houses. . . Continue reading New Video: She Keeps Bees – Owl
The e-mails have piled up like never before in our in-box, and having started to trawl through them for a few hours last night, here are a few gems we came across to make Monday more bearable – some old(er), some new, some borrowed, and some blue(s). Or something like that…check them for yourself. Let’s kick off with the brilliant Total Sunflower by Chimes is … Continue reading Start Of The Week Round Up
We first featured Port Isla a couple of years ago on MM and they were also the first band we caught live at this year’s Great Escape festival so it was good to hear that they have now signed to Parlophone Records and will release a new four track EP titled In The Long Run in a couple of weeks time. Sitting somewhere between the … Continue reading New From Port Isla
The latest instalment of our regular feature of songs you really should have wrapped your ears around in the past seven days…this week has a bumper crop of eight cracking new tunes. 1. Father John Misty – Bored In The USA 2. The Decemberists – Make You Better 3. The Dodos – Competition 4. Emmy The Great – Swimming Pool 5. The Districts – 4th And … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Australia’s King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have revealed the video to their album track, Satan Speeds Up. It is taken from their debut release for Heavenly Recordings, I’m In Your Mind Fuzz released on December 1, a skeleton of propulsive kraut-beat fleshed out with a liberal dose of citric sweetness, flutes and harmonicas, a ton of wah, and many lovely left turns of delicate psych. Watch … Continue reading New Video: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Satan Speeds Up
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