Brighten the start of the working week by watching these excellent videos from Upset, from singer – songwriter Teitur, from As Elephants Are with the nagging melody and barbed wire rhythm of new single Crystal, and some excellent fuzzy garage rock from Aussie band New Regulars. . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Upset || Teitur || As Elephants Are || New Regulars
Time to round up a few more of the releases that have tickled our ears from the inbox and round the web. Ali Koehler has hitherto been best known as the drummer of the pop group Best Coast and the noisy girl punk trio Vivian Girls. After her departure from Best Coast, Koehler decided to step up from behind the kit to front a band … Continue reading Rounding Them Up Again
Englishman’s forthcoming effort Unsafe & Sound is the follow-up to their 2010 self-titled full-length studio album (which we posted about here), and will available on limited edition vinyl and digital formats on the 19th November. Download the indie folk pop of More Than Insects, the first taste from the seven track EP – it is a two minute gem. Download Englishman – More Than Insects mp3 … Continue reading MM Shorts 461: Englishman
We’ve posted about Plateaus a few times on MM. Their latest release will be a one-sided limited run 10″ called Wasting Time. So if hazy guitar tones, pounding drums, fuzzed out bass, and blown out vocals that deliver a sonic soundscape your ears will be thrilled to hear is your thing then you can order the vinyl here. In the meantime have a listen to … Continue reading MM Shorts 460: Plateaus
Videos today come from Efren frontman Scott Low and a first taste from new solo record The Stories I Shouldn’t Tell in the form of Cactusgrass – a swirling and disorientating video perfectly suits the darkness and moodiness of the song. We also have the hypnotic and enchanting Cross Record’s appropriately haunting and off-kilter video for her brilliant track Maybe I’m Crazy. East India Youth’s striking … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Scott Low || Cross Record || East India Youth || Dead Wolf Club
Houston, TX’s Young Mammals effortlessly craft noisy, jaggedly dark and distorted pop songs. Their latest 7″ is out via Odd Hours on the 5th November, and they’re currently prepping for their debut full-length, slated for a 2014 release. Grab Build A House below. Continue reading MM Shorts 459: Young Mammals
Toy garnered a whole heap of praise for their self-titled debut album that saw a release just over a year ago. The follow-up will be called Join The Dots (out on 9th December) and the title track will be the lead single, released as a limited edition 7″ (300 copies) on 21st October. Each copy will feature a screen-printed sleeve by artist David Chatton Barker. Have a … Continue reading New Album & Single From Toy
Somehow we missed the release of Back To Soft this summer, the third long player from Bar Harbor’s Coke Weed. It follows the release of two outstanding albums in Nice Dreams and Volume One. But, if anything, this one is even better – a woozy, narcoleptic trip through the realms of psychedelia, indie rock and hazy Americana. Reference points range from classic Velvets style underground to … Continue reading MM’s 5:1 Interview No 14: Coke Weed
This weekend sees the annual Gathering festival in Oxford – a brilliant event that takes in seven venues around the city and runs from the afternoon into the wee small hours. This year the line up includes such MM luminaries as Local Natives, Drenge, Waxahatchee, Temples, Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs, Pyyramids, Port Isla, Wolf Alice, To Kill A King, Cheatahs and a whole host more. … Continue reading The Gathering – A Playlist
Today is a proverbial red letter day in Mad Mackerel terms as it sees the official US release date for new albums from two of our favourite artists. From our side of the pond we have Sleep Dreamt a Brother, the new album from musician and artist Mathew Sawyer, out on Fire Records. The majority of the album was written and recorded following the loss of three friends … Continue reading New Albums Released From Wooden Wand And From Mathew Sawyer
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