We don’t have much to tell you about The Widowers. We know it is the solo project of one Matt Sigur We know his debut six track EP Friendly is now available for free download from his Bandcamp page. We know he recorded every instrument featured in the songs with one microphone on a dusty old Mac. And we know that he’s good. Check out … Continue reading Introducing…The Widowers
The Boom Bang are about to put out their first 7″, the excellently named Bummer Camp EP featuring four tracks and marvellous Dr. Suess style artwork. The release is scheduled for the 17th September on Guestroom Records. The four tracks are a blend of scuzzy, scrappy, lo-fi garage rock that gleefully burrows into your skull uninvited and once there takes up residence for the long-term. Influences … Continue reading Introducing…The Boom Bang
In my usual working guise as a copywriter, this week’s been a bit of a punch in the face. It was with a great deal of wry irony that MM and I watched the first episode of the new season of Mad Men this week: why can’t I be more like Don?! Tell them to leave! This week, I downloaded the Ramones’ original of My … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday
Canadian indie-rockers Wintersleep have offered up a free download of the album version of Trace Decay from lastest record New Inheritors. So if you like your post-punk to rock a bit harder than normal, or the idea of some beefed up Interpol-like sounds then these may be the folk for you – we’re enjoying the album thoroughly… Visit their website here. Get the abum from … Continue reading Wintersleep offer up album track download
The new Japandroids single is Heavenward Grand Prix and to MM’s ears may well be the best thing they’ve delivered for a good while. It is still loud, very loud. It is still aggressive, and the slightly feral vocals are a bit more to the fore, but by slowing things down a touch they’ve added a palpable air of menace, which sets the song apart … Continue reading New from Japandroids
As is usual MM practice, we’re pointing you in the direction of the new monthly mix from Insound. It is (as usual) of excellent quality and this month features fifteen tracks including amongst others, Of Montreal, No Age, Deerhunter, Superchunk and Salem. And (as usual), it is only up for a limited period. So click here to go and get it. Download Superchunk – Digging … Continue reading Insound’s Free September Mix
Just one listen to Sea Oleena’s dreamy, gently spun folk immediately evokes all those ‘ethereal’, ‘other-worldly’, and ‘dreamlike’ cliches so beloved of music blogs, including ours. But cliches are cliches for a reason and this seven track, self-titled album, which is available for “a pay what you please” offer on her Bandcamp page, is simply gorgeous. It appears to be a re-working of a previous … Continue reading Introducing the ethereal wonder of Sea Oleena
The Low Hanging Fruit is the second album from The Wailing Wall, which in turn is the musical project of Jesse Rifkin. It follows his debut, Hospital Blossoms, which was released free and was downloaded well over 15,000 times by new fans all around the world. We’re a little late coming to it, but can’t recommend it highly enough. A marvellous blend of folk-pop imbued … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Wailing Wall
A couple of years ago we were very taken with the full on assault of O Shot by New York duo The Gay Blades, a storming crackerjack of a song that was one of our favourites of 2008. The pair take just about every musical genre going and then gleefully crush them into a seething mass of their own confident construction – from sneering garage-punk to … Continue reading New from The Gay Blades
According to the excellent Allmusic website, “The Athens, Georgia based Elf Power emerged as part of the second wave of bands linked to the Elephant 6 Recording Company collective, a coterie of likeminded lo-fi indie groups — including the Apples (In Stereo), Neutral Milk Hotel, and the Olivia Tremor Control — who shared musicians, ideas, and sensibilities. Formed by singers/multi-instrumentalists Andrew Rieger and Laura Carter, … Continue reading An Audience with Elf Power…a band named by hallucination?
