You may well recall from previous posts that Ex-Creation Records artists Pete Fij / Terry Bickers have turned their amps down and teamed up to create a melancholic, downbeat set of songs like the Velvet Underground gone acoustic or Simon & Garfunkel on downers. Latest single is Downsizing upon which they claim to have spend their entire £3 marketing budget on a session in a supermarket … Continue reading New Single From Pete Fij & Terry Bickers
What better way to start the weekend than with the lush, retro-folk of the Honey Ants. The duo formed in April of this year to play folk infused pop songs heavily influenced by 1960s and 1970s music, such as Simon and Garfunkel, The Beatles and The Mamas and Papas. Try distinctive new single Give Me Arms, which will be released on the 28th October. However, … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Honey Ants
The Ukiah Drag hail from the northernmost reaches of California, and are about to reissue a limited cassette release from earlier this year on 7″ vinyl. Jazz Mama Is Cryin consists of four tracks of brilliantly bleak, desolate, and warped blues and acid-rock. It is taut, tense, hypnotic and all consuming. It is like the evil offspring of Giant Sand and the Birthday Party. Take … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Ukiah Drag
There are occasions when maintaining a music blog is completely incongruous with the irrationality of (selfish) human emotions. By its very nature the blog exists to share music we like, champion new artists and releases in our own small way, and to lend our voice in support of those things that we feel are so much more interesting, stimulating and frankly worthwhile than the pre-packaged, … Continue reading Wooden Wand & The World War IV
We’ve posted one taste from the forthcoming Young Knives album Sick Octave, which is due for release in November, and now we have another in the shape of new single We Could Be Blood (out on 28th October). They will also be on tour throughout most of November (dates below). They are perhaps our most natural successors to that great line of observational, and opinionated, … Continue reading Young Knives Tour and New Single
A week or so ago we posted the swirling, psychedelic new video from the much heralded Temple Songs for their single I Can’t Look After You. Now the band have made the b-side, She’s Away, available for streaming, and rather spiffing, or perhaps spliffing, it is too. Have a listen. It is out on RIP Records on 14th October. Continue reading Temple Songs – She’s Away
Ok, for starters (no pun intended), People Person’s Portions for Fatties has to be one of our favourite song titles of the year so far. That it comes from an album called Dumb Supper makes it all the better. Best of all though, is the combination of 60s girl-group harmonies, buzzing feedback, waspish lyrics, and sparse, driving percussion that makes Portions for Fatties a deeply satisfying … Continue reading Introducing >>> People Person
The very marvellous Coathangers return to our speakers with a brilliant split 7″ single with Audacity on Suicide Squeeze Records. Their contribution is a track called Adderall, a propulsive, jittery, slice of post-punk agitation, borne in on the back of tribal drums and a perfect match for a commonly abused drug used to stimulate the central nervous system! Continue reading The Coathangers – Adderall
Montreal’s raucous garage rockers Le Trouble will release Reality Strikes, their debut EP for Lava Records on November 5th. The six-song collection offers a fitting first glimpse at the quintet’s elegantly catchy musical mischief. Real Talk (Part 2) is their first single, which is available as a free download below. Dig in. Continue reading MM Shorts 449: Le Trouble
Mary Epworth’s love of music combines 60s West Coast psychedelia, the 70s Beach Boys and traditional English song, and all can be heard to good effect on September, her new single out, appropriately enough, on the 30th of this month. Continue reading New Single From Mary Epworth
The Mad Mackerel 