We’re very much looking forward to getting our grubby mitts on A.A. Bondy’s new album Enderness – his first for eight long years. We’ve already shared Images of Love from it, and here’s a second track from the record. Killers 3 is a melancholy, hymn-like song that we have found ourselves coming back to time and time again today. It mixes elements of folk, electronic flourishes … Continue reading A.A. Bondy – Killers 3
Here is a second taste from the Fat White Family’s upcoming album Serfs Up! Tastes Good With The Money is built on the back of a scuzzy slow burn of a glam rock riff, absurd lyrics that drop with sordid innuendo and a vocal cameo from Baxter Dury. Throw in a surreal Monty Python inspired video and you’ve got all the ingredients for another irresistible, … Continue reading Fat White Family – Tastes Good With The Money
Ausmuteants will return with a new album The World In Handcuffs via Anti Fade Records on the 26th April. Typically weird, the record features the same ten songs on each side, just in a different order and with the A Side including skits by guitarist Shaun Connor. The record is a concept album of sorts, one that explores a piss-take look on life from the … Continue reading New From Ausmuteants
Hailing from Gdansk in Poland, Trupa Trupa are a new addition to the Sub Pop label and it is easy to see why on the strength of the woozily menacing Dream About. Theirs is a world teeming with nihilistic considerations, slyly dark humour, and survivalist self-assurances. The oft repeated “I dream about no one, no way, no one / I’ve got nothing to hide, I will just … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Trupa Trupa
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Fishing For Fishies The Head And The Heart – Missed Connection Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation – Feel The Sun The UV Club – Mr Blame Lucille Furs – Paint Euphrosyne Blue Frankie Cosmos – Dancing Los Wilds – Muñequita de Trapo Grim Streaker – Today New York UV … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We loved Brooklyn duo Frog’s album Whatever We Probably Already Had It, which was released towards the end of last year, and now the band have shared God Loved A Woman from it as a free download. We’d like to say it was a standout from the album, but frankly that does a disservice to the rest of the record – it is a collection … Continue reading Frog – God Loved A Woman
Weaving between shimmering synth pop and the infectious grooves of 70’s Berlin, W.H. Lung will release their debut album Incidental Music on the 5th April via Melodic We’ve got the second single from the record for you. The bulk of Second Death Of My Face was developed on the piano of Manchester’s Central Library, and it is a five and half minute epic, with cathartic lyrics and soaring crescendos … Continue reading New From W.H. Lung
Droneflower is the new collaboration between MM regular Marissa Nadler and Stephen Brodsky (of Mutoid Man, Cave In). It will be released by Sacred Bones on the 26th April. As might be imagined, it is a sprawling and expansive exercise in contrasts – the sound of the war between the brutal and the ethereal, the depths of darkness and piercing light, and the real and imagined. The … Continue reading Marissa Nadler & Stephen Brodsky Collaborate on Droneflower
Having made our Best Of lists for last year with the brilliant Twelve Divisions Of The Day, Leeds based Drahla have announced the release of Useless Coordinates, a debut ten track album that will see a release via Captured Tracks on the 3rd May. Stimulus for Living is the queasily brilliant first taste from the record. All their wiry, naggingly insistent post-punk credentials are firmly … Continue reading Drahla Announce Useless Coordinates
Nots have announced details of their new album, 3. It is (perhaps unsurprisingly) the Memphis band’s third full-length, but also their first as a trio. Half Painted House, is the lead single and manages to be both hypnotic and seductive at the same time, without sacrificing any of their queasy post-punk goodness, squally guitars or reverb drenched vocals. Listen to the single below. The album is … Continue reading Nots Announce 3
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