Porridge Radio are pretty new to us, but we’re loving the sounds of latest single Sweet. Sweet is a schizophrenic sounding track – on the one hand the verses are initially, like the song’s title, sweet, almost delicate, but as the song progresses, increasingly angry and cachophonous guitars squall and battle over vocals that are only a couple of decibels shy of unhinged. The whole … Continue reading Porridge Radio – Sweet
Just picked this up off our Soundcloud feed (which is pretty crappy nowadays so God knows what they’ve done to it). Anyway, stalwart Atlanta based underground garage rockers Black Lips will release new album Sing… in a World that’s Falling Apart via Fire Records at the end of this week. We’re told the twelve-song collection marks the quintet’s most pronounced dalliance with country music yet, … Continue reading Black Lips – Rumbler
Chris T Popper has been with MM from the very first post. Every year he produces his own list of favourite tunes and here are his selections for 2019. This year he was helped by Stan the greyhound. Next year I’m hoping we get Stan’s choices… 10. She Keeps Bees – Kinship Never got bored of that opening drum groove. Backed up by Jessica … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best of 2019: Chris T Popper’s Top Ten Tunes
And here we have the final part of our favourite tunes of 2019… Discover and enjoy. 25 UV Race – Mr Blame A brash, unapologetic race through proto-punk stomp and malodorous glam-punk aesthetics. 24 Lonesome Shack – The City is a Desert Anchored by an insistent country blues refrain that has a touch of something primal about it, and sounds like it could … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Songs of 2019 (Part 3)
50 Sleaford Mods – O.B.C.T 49 Deliluh – Freeloader Feast 48 The Paranoyds – Hungry Sam 47 Cherry Pickles – Lily Is A Spy 46 The Warlocks – Disfigured Figure 45 Silverbacks – Pink Tide 44 Marika Hackman – The One 43 Lonesome Shack – Too Bad 42 FEWS – Anything Else 41 Darrin Bradbury … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Songs of 2019 (Part 2)
We’ve decided to do things a bit differently this year – too many times in the past we’ve posted our favourite songs of the year and then discovered late releases we wished we’d added! And also 2019 was a shit year for the world – Brexit, Johnson, Trump, the world burning… at least there is music. So, way after everyone else has done theirs, here … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Songs of 2019 (Part 1)
Bambara’s new album Stray was announced in October ahead of a February 14th release on the always reliable Brooklyn indie Wharf Cat. The album is structured like a collection of short stories about a group of loosely-related characters living in a fictionalized Georgia community. Beginning with lead single Serafina, and followed by Sing Me To The Street, the band have shared the third single from the album … Continue reading Bambara – Heat Lightning
We missed this at the tail end of last year, but Bristol’s new five piece Birdman Cult peddle a very nice line in scorching riffs and bone shaking percussion on recent single Snakes. It is a fuzzy gem of sweaty rock ‘n’ roll that stomps a line somewhere between the black clad doom of BMRC and the voodoo rock of the Cramps. Watch the video / … Continue reading Introducing >>> Birdman Cult
Shopping have announced details for All Or Nothing, their new album out on the 7th February via FatCat Records, and have shared the lead single, Initiative, which serves as an excellent example of their confident, elastic, streamlined grooves that crackle with energy and intention. The trio’s vision – deeply queer; political by default – place them in a radical lineage of dance, a continuum connecting … Continue reading Shopping – Initiative
Cathedral Bell’s new single, Ephemeral is taken from upcoming debut album, Velvet Spirit, out on the 6th March. It is propulsive mix of synthy shoegaze and bedroom-dream-pop that recalls the halcyon days of the 80s and bands like The Cure or OMD. Check it out here. Continue reading Cathedral Bells – Ephemeral
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