Shrouded Strangers have just leapt to the top of our New Discoveries Most Anticipated List (if we actually had one that is), but no matter, this is the video to skuzzy slacker anthem Featherbed, a glorious amalgam of surf guitars, krautrock rhythms and fuzzed up hillbilly stomp. Just brilliant. It comes from new album Forever Lost which is described as a collection of disembodied pop … Continue reading MM Shorts 86: Shrouded Strangers Video
The wonderful Cave Singers have just completed an outstanding session for Daytrotter offering up versions of Swim Club, Haller Lake, Clever Creatures and the brilliant Black Leaf. Signing up to get this, and many other sessions (recently including Laura Marling, Wilco, Marnie Stern and The Parson Red Heads) costs just $2 per month which even in these troubled times is a ridiculously good deal – if … Continue reading The Cave Singers @ Daytrotter
We’ve already posted about Night Genes and new album Like The Blood, which is out tomorrow and which, over the past few weeks, has been played on the MM stereo with ever increasing frequency. To mark the occasion here is another standout from the album, the infectiously catchy, military folk stomp of Soaring Through The Chromosomes. Download Night Genes – Soaring Through The Chromosomes mp3 … Continue reading MM Shorts 85: More From Night Genes
Oregon duo Vacant Fever have a new release, Kill Kill Kill out on March 6th. We posted about the band last year and they went on to make a couple of our guest Top Tens at the end of the year so we were excited to learn of a new five track EP. They hate genres and being pigeon-holed and so we’ll avoid going down … Continue reading New Single From Vacant Fever
We have been enjoying Take The Air, an album of authentic, old-timey, soulful folk by Jenn Rawling, which she has now made available for free download via her Soundcloud page here. From slow country to uptempo neo-folk, the gently weaving rhythms and honeyed harmonies are a delight. Here are a couple of our favourites, Big Old Lake and Lonely Owl should you want to sample the … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Jenn Rawling
Mike Doughty releases his new album Yes And Also Yes on February 13th. Previously front man of Soul Coughing, he has also written a brutally honest and unflinching autobiography that catalogues the utterly dysfunctional nature of his band and his own descent into full-on drug addiction. The album is his fourth as a solo artist and it is immediately apparent that the man’s scalpel sharp … Continue reading New Solo Album From Mike Doughty
As is often their wont, Mojo magazine have produced another fine cover disc this month, with a tribute to Leonard Cohen’s masterpiece of a debut The Songs Of Leonard Cohen plus a ‘bonus’ of five extra classic tracks from his back catalogue. The array of artists is mightily impressive from acclaimed new soul artist Michael Kiwanuka to Cass McCombs, Field Music and J Tillman recording … Continue reading The Songs Of Leonard Cohen Covered For Mojo
Young Prisms are a band from San Francisco who deliver a beguiling mix of dreamy psychedelia over a fuzz of shoegazey guitars and reverb. Floating In Blue is the first taste from new album In Between. Download Young Prisms – Floating In Blue mp3 (from In Between) Continue reading MM Shorts 84: Young Prisms
Children: they really do f**k you about don’t they? In a week when our eldest sprat managed to eclipse his younger sister’s great show of academic prowess by making us all as miserable as sin, I think I should resign defeated. I blame the parents; he seems to. Liar, liar, pants on fire. Most things in life that are worth something demand some sort of … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (27th January)
Matt Cranstoun is a singer-songwriter comfortable and confident enough to imbue his music with genres and styles that should, by rights, probably be more used to staying well away from one another. So is then that despite a classic troubadour’s husky drawl and some classic folk chops, funk and soul and some classic rock are bedded in too, and the results, whether backing whispered intimacy … Continue reading New Single From Matt Cranstoun
