Durham, North Carolina singer and guitarist Jake Xerxes Fussell has announced his second full-length album, What in the Natural World, to be released on the 31st March via Paradise of Bachelors. The debut single from it is a beautifully rollicking version of the traditional song Have You Ever Seen Peaches Growing on a Sweet Potato Vine? It is lovely stuff. Listen below. Continue reading MM Shorts 909: Jake Xerxes Fussell
It has been nearly five years since Ha Ha Tonka appeared on MM and even longer since The Usual Suspects featured in our Best of Year listings. They will be releasing a new album Heart-Shaped Mountain via Bloodshot Records on the 10th March and the first track from it is the upbeat, jaunty folk-rock of Race To The Bottom – a veritable toe-tapper if ever … Continue reading Ha Ha Tonka – Race To The Bottom
Cloud Nothings have shared one more taste of their forthcoming album Life Without Sound before its release on January 27th. New track Enter Entirely, starts as a slow-burner before bursting into a classic Dylan Baldi chorus. Give it a spin. Continue reading More From Cloud Nothings
The ballad Orange Color Queen announced Ty Segall’s upcoming self-titled album, but the second track to be shared is a far more typical example of his raw, primal guitar riffage. Break A Guitar is a noisy, crunchy slice of distorted garage rock shot through with a flavour of 70s glam rock arrogance. Listen below. Continue reading Another From Ty Segall
Bundled up three cracking new tunes for you this morning in a hear one, get two free kind of deal. First up an irrepressibly brilliant new track from prolific psychedelic warriors King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Sleep Drifter is the latest track to be lifted from their forthcoming new album, Flying Microtonal Banana, which is released on Heavenly Recordings on 24th February (pre-order here). Second … Continue reading Three of the Best: New From Surfer Blood, King Gizzard & Adam Torres
On the 7th April, Timber Timbre will release their new album Sincerely, Future Pollution. The first single, Sewer Blues, is an ironclad groove marked by plodding, heavy rhythm, cavernous delay, and a backdrop of starry synthesizers. Taylor Kirk’s nearly spoken words seem to emit from the underbelly of urban decay, carried on the ominous air of these troubled days. It’s powerful stuff – watch / … Continue reading New Album From Timber Timbre
The Mites play the kind of girl-fronted alternative rock that seamlessly blends power pop, lo-fi, and elements of shoegaze into muscular slabs of pop perfection that harken back to the golden years of MTV. Their new EP, Asphalt Ocean, takes the band’s tried-and-true marriage of pop melodies and heavy guitars and puts them on full display on the title track, while the B-side Brianna blends the … Continue reading MM Shorts 908: The Mites
The experimental, ghostly, haunting and sometimes-countryish croon of singer-songwriter Daughn Gibson has been a regular on MM in more recent times, yet somehow we totally missed this Bandcamp release of a new EP, titled Vas 1. It came out back in October apparently and is four songs about friendship. Listen to 31, ’16 in which a young boy confesses love to the ghost of his dead babysitter. Continue reading Daughn Gibson – Vas 1 EP
Athens, Georgia duo Eureka California are back with a new three track single, two brand new songs, Wigwam and Only Birds (No Feathers), and a cover of Superchunk’s Slack Motherfucker. It is out on the 24th February. Listen to the fuzzy, agitated slacker-pop of the lead track below. Continue reading New Single From Eureka California
Despite already sharing a host of new tracks from the likes of Diet Cig, Pissed Jeans and Laura Marling earlier in the week, we still have nine more new tunes gathered from the past seven days for you. Lots of female voices this week, which is never a bad thing – check out tracks from Allison Crutchfield, Hand Habits, a gem from Phoebe Bridgers, Cleo … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
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