Here is another track from 5J Barrow’s album From The Dim, Sweet Light. Big Rooms, Bright Lights is a rolling folk ballad that is brushed through with a gentle melancholy that is hard to resist. “Sit around the table and joke, Pass the wine, the whiskey, beer and smoke, and just forget the fact that we’re dirt broke” Also check out our post of Talking My … Continue reading More From 5J Barrow
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Courtly Love are merging bluesy tones with psychedelic hazes; a brand-new quintet from East London and one of those rare musical collectives who appear to have arrived fully formed and armed with clutch of quite wonderful tunes. They produce a gorgeous smouldering psych blues fusion, mixing the dark gutter glamour of the Velvets & Nico with the cinematic doomed grandeur of Serge Gainsbourg. Watch the … Continue reading Video: Courtly Love – Mirage
We’re loving Mick Jagger, (never imagined we’d be writing that), a six minute epic of resigned, weary psych-rock from rising Brooklyn five-piece Baked. It is the centrepiece of their forthcoming debut album Debt which mixes foggy, laid back psychedelia with flashes of fuzzed-up punk, indie rock and hazy pop to create a sonic whole of hypnotic rhythms and lush instrumentation. This is a record to lay … Continue reading Introducing >>> Baked
For Record Store Day Trembling Bells and Bonnie “Prince” Billy released a 7″ single together. Titled New Trip on the Old Wine, it was limited to just 500 copies. As you’d expect the vinyl has long since gone, but you can now stream the A and B sides below, and purchase a digital download of the single, should you so wish, from the Trembling Bells … Continue reading MM Shorts 571: Trembling Bells & Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Sometimes a slice of typically English, unadorned, no fuss indie-pop hits the sweet spot like nothing else, and so it is with London four piece Felt Tip’s new single Simple Things. Stream it or watch the equally fuss-free, no frills video. . . Continue reading Video: Felt Tip – Simple Things
Dear Diary, the new single from Darlia carries on where the previous EPs we featured, Candyman and Knock Knock, left off – namely snarling, fizzing indie rock brimming over with swagger, attitude and balls aplenty. Have a listen and pre-order the limited vinyl here. . Continue reading New Single From Darlia
In 2012 Mikael Caterer left Melbourne, Australia and settled in Brooklyn, NY with the rest of his band, Scott & Charlene’s Wedding. Beginning just before the move, and in between his hours spent teaching kindergarten and touring, Caterer wrote his first solo effort, an EP for a new project called Shorts. To help round out and eventually record the demos, Caterer asked friends from his … Continue reading Introducing >>> SHORTS
A lovely slice of twinkling, melancholic Americana with a film-noir feel as a lonely man is haunted by his dreams through an LA nightscape. Moment of Fame is the closing track on Sugarplum Fairies forthcoming album Godspeed and Silver Linings. . . Continue reading Video: Sugarplum Fairies – Moment Of Fame
Indie janglers and Birmingham four-piece JAWS will release their debut album Be Slowly in September. The title track is another fine example of their sweetly intoxicating dream-pop that shimmers and exhilarates in equal measure. Listen below. Pre-order the album here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 570: JAWS
The Mad Mackerel 