Mulberry Love is the excellent debut single from Toronto four-piece Running Red Lights. It is almost six minutes of beautifully contrasting sweet folk, honeyed harmonies, and dark pop – like a musical equivalent of Snow White and that juicy, tempting red apple. You can listen, but you’d better not touch. “Oh she leaves and arrives like the skies of a rolling storm and while away … Continue reading Running Red Lights – Mulberry Love
Sub Pop has signed Lyla Foy (formerly known as WALL) to their roster and will release her debut album next year. We were fortunate enough to see her perform an intimate and fragilely lovely show in the hushed surroundings of Austin’s Central Presbyterian Church at SXSW this year. Preceding the album will be the Easy / Head Down single, available from the 19th November as … Continue reading WALL Becomes Lyla Foy. Signs To Sub Pop
After releasing their excellent debut LP of ferocious, thrash party anthems Bloodstreams last year, Australia’s DZ Deathrays have literally spent the last eighteen months touring the world. Now the duo have offered up the first taste of their forthcoming sophomore LP (scheduled for the first half of 2014) in the form of a crushing new single entitled Northern Lights. Continue reading New From DZ Deathrays
Portland, Oregon’s experimental indie psych-rockers Animal Eyes are releasing a new five track EP, Ursus. Check out opening track Bender below and you can buy the EP from their Bandcamp page here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 470: Animal Eyes
Yukon based Old Cabin release their self-titled debut LP on the 26th November. Lighthouse, the first single from Old Cabin, is available for free download. Old Cabin is the pseudonym of Jona Barr. In the last three years he has brought his music out of the woods and shared it with new fans across Canadian soil. In 2012, he released a six song EP entitled … Continue reading Introducing >>> Old Cabin
A couple of years ago we posted the surf-indie-motown-pop of Little Racer’s self-titled EP. They are back on the Young & Lost Club label with their new EP and taken from it we have Vanessa available to download, a heartbreaker of a song. Continue reading New EP From Little Racer
Time for another big round up of just a few of the many quality tunes that have found their way into our in-box and into our ears. We have not had enough time over the past few weeks to do them proper justice, but we promise all are worth some of your time to get to know them better. Enjoy. First up are Banded Stilts, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Massive Monday Round-Up
The Hunting Party are an indie-folk band from New York. Their EP North was released in October. Reminiscent of smoky backwoods bars, it is a collection of songs of longing, nostalgia, and the uncertainty of both past and future. Download the top-notch single Bobby and stream Poor Proud Fool, the two songs that bookend an excellent EP. Continue reading MM Shorts 469: The Hunting Party
We are thoroughly enjoying these tracks from Brooklyn’s droney psych rocker outfit Ancient Sky that both come from their new album All Get Out. The band eschews the more traditional, tripped out path of hazy psychedelia for something more serious, more intense, and more together! They do it exceedingly well too, and we’ve put All Get Out straight on to our wish list for when it comes … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Ancient Sky
Minotaur backed with Bad Blood is the first 7″ by Matthew Edwards & The Unfortunates on Metal Postcard. It is a shoe-in for lovers of smart, articulate songwriting and melodic, harmonious indie-pop. . Continue reading MM Shorts 468: Matthew Edwards & The Unfortunates
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