New Zealand’s Popstrangers deal in a tripped-out, urgent brand of rock that nods its head to the classic Antipodean guitar bands, as well as having echoes of the halcyon days of the 1980s, when the UK’s indie scene was at its height. The nervy, propulsive Distress is the third single to be taken from their latest album Fortuna and gallops along with nary a backward glance. … Continue reading Popstrangers – Distress
1. Sharon Van Etten – Your Love Is Killing Me 2. Parquet Courts – Instant Disassembly 3. Peter Matthew Bauer – Philadelphia Raga 4. Big Search – Role Reversal 5. Lydia Loveless – Mile High . . . . . . Continue reading Five Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Our favourite fiery Manchester four-piece PINS have unveiled a new double video for the brooding new versions of Shoot You and Eleventh Hour. Notably, the video opens with acclaimed actress Maxine Peake reading an original poem written by PINS vocalist Faith Holgate. Watch it here. Stream the originals below. . . . Continue reading Video: PINS – Shoot You / Eleventh Hour
The swampy, garage blues and glam-rock riffs of duo the Ghost Wolves joyfully traverses the habitat of such notable luminaries as The Cramps, The Stooges, Jeff The Brotherhood and The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Watch their new video, taken from a recent Lost In Austin session, for the raw, dirty Gonna Live. It comes from their forthcoming long-player Man, Woman, Beast, out on 14th July. . . . Continue reading Video: The Ghost Wolves – Gonna Live
Long After Tonite’s Candles Are Blown is the most prefect track of resigned, downbeat indie-melancholy that you will hear for many a moon. It comes from Comet Gain’s forthcoming album Paperback Ghosts. Have a listen to a evocative night for “lost souls, barroom ghouls, and faded hippies“. The album is out on the 7th July via Fortuna POP!. . Continue reading Comet Gain – Long After Tonite’s Candles Are Blown
Not Kings is the title song of the forthcoming debut album from Candy Says, Oxford’s lo-fi recording collective, Camilla closes the record. The album is out on the 28th May and is a twelve song collection of off-kilter, experimental garage pop that defies categorisation (despite all our best efforts in this same sentence). It is quirky, sometimes jaunty, sometimes maudlin, often perplexing and undeniably affecting. Listen … Continue reading Candy Says – Not Kings
In August, Seattle based no-wave noiseniks Stickers will release their debut album Swollen via End of Time Records. The first single is the pulsating, churning menace of Outlet, which carries a palpable sense of unease, and which we are obviously delighting in! It bodes extremely well for the album. Strem/download it here. Pre-order Swollen here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 563: Stickers
Who Let The Devil is to be the next single from The Fresh & Onlys, and is taken from their forthcoming long player House of Spirits. It might well be our favourite track we’ve heard from them to date, a creepy ode to demonic possession and Old Nick himself that is borne on a queasy, hypnotic rhythm and perfectly counterbalanced by Tim Cohen’s affecting and paranoid … Continue reading New Single From The Fresh & Onlys
Watch the excellent official video for Sharon Van Etten’s Every Time The Sun Comes Up, one (of many) standout tracks on her new album Are We There. . . . Continue reading Video: Sharon Van Etten – Every Time The Sun Comes Up
Chris Devotion & The Expectations are more than a little fond of a bit of savage rock’n’roll and a pert frolic with the classic pop song. Take Don’t You Call On Me, just under two and a half-minutes of power chords and forceful riffing that evokes the 70s heyday of aggressive melodies and distorted guitars, with a pleasing contemporary twist. Part confessional, part peacock strut, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Chris Devotion & The Expectations
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