Damon McMahon’s folk project Amen Dunes will soon release a new album, Love, on the Sacred Bones label in May. Having forsaken their usual approach of spontaneous improvisation and experimental recordings to spend around eighteen months in the studio working on songs that were originally never meant for public release, but which due to their personal nature offer a hitherto unseen intimacy and warmth to them. The first track … Continue reading Amen Dunes – Love
Wolf Solent’s video for Get On comes from their recently released Lifeboat EP, a triumph of laid back hypnotic grooves, spaced-out psych, crunchy distortion and fuzzed-up drones. This is one of the jauntier tracks… Buy the EP here. . . . . Continue reading Video: Wolf Solent – Get On
Seattle duo Iska Dhaaf have spent the past three years writing their debut album Even The Sun Will Burn. In many, many ways it is an album of contrasts – joyful and melancholic, subtle and brutal, uncompromising and welcoming it mixes punk, psychedelia, indie rock and even dream pop into a triumphant whole that manages to be much more than the mere sum of its parts. … Continue reading Introducing >>> Iska Dhaaf
Deservedly adding her name to the seemingly endless outpouring of talent from Sweden is the gorgeous and evocative Alice Boman. Her new release EPII will see the light of day in June, and to tide us over we have the first single What for your undoubted listening pleasure. It is a song to immerse yourself in – fragile, sparse and undeniably haunting, and seems to carry … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Alice Boman
Hobart’s Heart Beach have released their latest single Hours as a name-your-price download from Bandcamp here. Describing themselves as “sad minimal Hobartian skuzz pop drone harmonies”, they are well worth adding to your next playlist… . . Continue reading MM Shorts 539: Heart Beach
Danish psych duo The Wands release their new single, The Dawn, on April 14th – the first from their upcoming debut album. The Dawn is a unashamed throwback to the classic 60s sound of psychedelia with subtle, contemporary touch-ups, and they do it with a degree of expertise and confidence that is mostly missing from many mining the same vein. Dig out the incense and stream the … Continue reading The Wands – The Dawn
Once again it is time to hurl in the lifesaving post of a Round Up, thrown boldly into the rising tide of cracking new tunes that are lapping against the very top of our inbox. Ten bands, thirteen tracks…dip in! . First up is the raw, take-no-prisoners rock’n’roll of Scary People’s tracks Crush The Bug and Chicago – pure, unadulterated foot-stomping noise. . Slow Club release their much … Continue reading Round Up Time
The third single to be taken from her third album Mug Museum, and one of our favourite tracks on the record, Sisters explores the female relationships in Cate Le Bon’s life, following the loss of her Grandmother, a running theme throughout the album. Cate comments, “Following the death of my maternal Grandmother I felt a very palpable shift in the roles that we’d all become accustomed … Continue reading New Cate Le Bon Single
Favorite Waitress will be released by the Felice Brothers on June 9th in the UK and Europe and June 18th in North America. Here is a video trailer with song clips from our most anticipated record of the year… . Here they are covering Harvest Moon…any excuse to post something! Continue reading Felice Brothers – Favorite Waitress Album Trailer
NE-HI’s hypnotic, psychedelic pop sound comes through beautifully on their forthcoming self-titled LP. In recent times, Chicago has become a hot bed for psych-pop and NE-HI is adding its jangly touch, lush vocals, and spaced out grooves to the scene. Watch the video, then grab yourself Since I’ve Been Thinking from their Bandcamp page for free. Pre-order the limited edition vinyl here. . . Continue reading MM Shorts 538: NE-HI
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