Public Service Broadcasting are great. Last year’s Inform- Educate – Entertain album was a real treat, and made it into our Albums of the Year selection. Now to mark their upcoming North American tour, and as many parts of the US remain frozen and blizzard-hit, they have released a new, snow-packed video for their UK single Everest. . . Continue reading Public Service Broadcasting – New Everest Video
Back in the summer of 2012 we posted about the excellent debut album No Expiration Date from raucous California garage rockers The Forty Nineteens. The follow-up will be called Spin It and channels the spirit of such masters of their craft as the Byrds, Psychedelic Furs, Rolling Stones and the Ramones into a collection of fresh, sonic vignettes filled with harmonies, dirty guitars and pistol-crack percussion. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… The Forty Nineteens
We featured the sweetly melancholic folk-pop of Boho Dancer’s haunting and delightful album Gemini back in the summer. They are playing an intimate London showcase next week on the 17th February at 229. Excuse enough to give you a couple more tracks from the record. . . Continue reading MM Shorts 519: Boho Dancer
Following many ‘Ones to Watch’ tips on their first two releases, Cambridge born indie band Forest have kicked off 2014 with an EP titled Wisdom Tusk, scheduled for release on limited edition 10” coloured vinyl via Indelabel on March 24th. Lead track All I Have channels the spirit of classic indie rock a la Dinosaur Jr or Pavement, and depicts growing pains within the realisation and … Continue reading Forest – Wisdom Tusk EP
We’ve already given you a couple of tracks from New Electric Ride’s lysergic-fuelled forthcoming long player Ballon Age (due on the 25th February). Now, a mere two weeks before release, we have Here Comes The Bloom, its heady swirl effortlessly transporting you back to a kaleidoscopic age of free love, kaftans and spliff. Take their advice its “time to go with the flow“… . Continue reading More From New Electric Ride
As anyone who reads MM with any degree of regularity will no doubt know, we are recent and zealous new converts to the joys of Stone Jack Jones’ unsettling, haunting gothic-folk. We’ve already shared three tracks from his new record, Ancestor, and here is a fourth, Joy that also features Patty Griffin on vocals and movingly tells the story of his mother in law’s last … Continue reading Stone Jack Jones – Joy
We recently posted Turchi’s cover of Josh Ritter’s Mind’s Eye, the lead track from their 10″ vinyl release My Time Ain’t Now EP. They’ve followed it up in pretty rapid succession with a new 7”, cryptically titled When You’re Lost It’s All A Sign, out on the 25th February via Fat Elvis Records. You can watch the video for the A side below and stream the … Continue reading More From Turchi
Philadelphia foursome Bleeding Rainbow will release Interrupt, their fourth long player on 25th February. The release heralds somewhat of a return to basics – songs are stripped back and straight-forward and the runtime is a little more than half an hour in total. Even so, driving melodies, pounding percussion and unrelenting energy are to the fore and the record’s impact is an immediate snarl, heavier … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Bleeding Rainbow
The Smoke Fairies will release their new self-titled album on the 14th April via Full Time Hobby. As evidenced by first single, Eclipse Them All, it heralds something of a new direction for the duo – less harmonies and more two distinct voices, less intricate and more direct, less organic and more experimental. Thankfully, they have sacrificed none of the undercurrent of foreboding and disquiet … Continue reading Smoke Fairies – Eclipse Them All
One of our favourite discoveries of the past three or four years has been Tom Williams & The Boat, and they have featured many times in MM posts since their 2011 debut album Too Slow and excellent follow up Teenage Blood. They will soon be releasing a new album Easy Fantastic which they have spent much of the past year writing and recording and you can … Continue reading New Single & Album From Tom Williams & The Boat
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