As with previous years Song By Toad Records have made a free eleven song sampler available on Bandcamp of some of the releases they have planned for 2013 (and a couple of late ones from 2012). They include new signings Sparrow & The Workshop (see our post earlier today) and Adam Stafford as well as established favourites such as Meursault, Rob St. John, Lil Daggers … Continue reading Song By Toad’s 2013 Sampler
It’s that time again, a brand new free digital mixtape for all Insound newsletter subscribers. The latest sampler has tracks from Airstrip, California X, Darwin Deez, Fantasmas, Hands, HRVRD, Matmos, and PYYRAMIDS amongst others. A couple of our favourites from the mix are below from The Bronx and Pissed Jeans (the brilliant Bathroom Laughter from the forthcoming Honeys). As always, the sampler’s only available for the next week … Continue reading Insound’s February Digital Mixtape
The brilliant Sparrow & The Workshop are happily back on the radar with a new single on Song By Toad Records. Out on March 11th, it is titled Shock Shock and will precede a new long player. The band have seemingly undergone a bit of a transformation – look at the sleeve for a start, all dark and menacing and brooding – and boy, do … Continue reading New Sparrow & The Workshop Single
We are long standing admirers of husband and wife duo Whitehorse ever since we discovered their self-titled debut of 2011 – eight songs of blues-stomp and seedy ballads. Somehow we missed their latest album, when it was originally released last summer, but have caught up now as it is seemingly getting a second push with another ‘release’ last month. It takes its title from a … Continue reading Whitehorse: The Fate Of The World Depends On This Kiss
We’ve been playing this little beauty since we received it from Little Sur, a folk band from New York (and school mates of MM faves Town Hall). It is a six track EP titled You Ran With Me and features some banjo which is always good to hear! Head over to their Bandcamp page to hear more and get it on a name-your-price deal. This … Continue reading MM Shorts 309: Little Sur
We love Fire Records. Hot on the heels of a number of notable recent releases (Wooden Wand, Lower Plenty, Tom Morgan to name but three) comes yet another in the shape of Australia’s psych-popsters Blank Realm and their excellent forthcoming new album Go Easy. Sitting somewhere between the melancholic churn and burn of Mercury Rev and The Flaming Lips and the noisy squall of Sonic Youth, the four-piece … Continue reading Blank Realm’s New Album: Go Easy
Metaphorically speaking we have a huge red ring round March 5 on our calendar because that is when the new Cave Singers album Naomi gets a release. They have made a second track from it available for your listening pleasure and Easy Way certainly more than meets our (high) expectations as it drives along on the back of another trademark riff from Derek Fudesco and even … Continue reading Easy Way From The Cave Singers
New York’s Wry Climate have a sound best described as guitar-driven indie rock that combines jangly guitars, complex compositions and squally feedback. A sound that is equally reminiscent of the Byrds, Beach Fossils, Dirty Projectors and Sonic Youth. Comfort Decay is the first track off their new EP that will be coming out later this year. Stream it below or head to their Bandcamp page … Continue reading Introducing >>> Wry Climate
Sun Kil Moon’s bitterly poignant and self-deprecating Among The Leaves was one of our favourite albums of last year and Mark Kozelek has wasted no time in following that up with a collaboration with The Album Leaf titled Perils From The Sea. It would appear that upbeat still remains a distant expectation with titles like Baby In Death Can I Rest Next To Your Grave…only an eight minute … Continue reading Sun Kil Moon & The Album Leaf – Perils From The Sea
So, all things considered January got off to a rip-roaring start where new tunes are concerned. Here is our selection of our best of the month’s downloads (27 in all) and a few new tunes too – more than 30 to pick from, so blow those January blues away with these babies. Prissy Clerks – Bruise or Be Bruised Mix of fuzzed up punk and … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: January 2013
