San Diego shoegazers Tape Deck Mountain released their latest long player Sway earlier this week. We have already posted a couple of tracks from it, and here is another in the shape of the satisfyingly sombre Pretend Friends which builds to a powerful coda of swirling guitars. Download Tape Deck Mountain – Pretend Friends mp3 (from Sway) Continue reading Tape Deck Mountain Release Sway
Picked this gem up from the ever reliable Rollo & Grady blog – No Valley hail from New York and Charlie Don’t Surf is as infectious a slice of garagey rock as you’re likely to come across and definitely worth a re-post. Download it here. Continue reading MM Shorts 453: No Valley
We’re loving I Have To Speak With Rocky Balboa by the Happy Jawbone Family Band – an oddball concoction of idiosyncratic folk, pop, rock and God knows what else, that is anchored by some of the best lyrical wordplay we’ve heard for a good long while. Eccentric it is, surreal too, but also, against all the odds, quite affecting and certainly memorable. It is the … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Happy Jawbone Family Band
Having recently posted People Person’s excellently titled Portions For Fatties from forthcoming album Dumb Supper (out next week), we now have another excellent tune (both musically and in name), for your listening pleasure. Avail yourself of two minutes of slow-burn craftmanship and pop sensibility with I’m Slimy here. Continue reading People Person Get Slimy
New York four-piece The Golden Furs have just released their debut EP of evocative and poignant indie-pop, infused with a slightly dream like quality. Simply titled, Strand, it weaves together rock, pop, folk and even a touch of dance in a way that manages to evoke Jeff Buckley as much as it does Vampire Weekend. Grab yourself the sweet harmonies and sultry vocals of single Run … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Golden Furs
Elizabeth Fey caused a bit of a stir in the Foxygen camp earlier this year with a tumblr post about some of the trials and tribulations within the band that she was a touring member of… She has released some tracks of her own under the Globelamp moniker, the most recent of which Controversial/Confrontational is a lovely excursion into dreamy lo-fi psychedelia and dream pop. … Continue reading MM Shorts 452: Globelamp
Singer-songwriter Dan Whitehouse is set is release his second album, Reaching For A State Of Mind, next Monday. Having shared stages with such artists as MM faves Willy Mason, Caitlin Rose, Julian Cope and Josh Ritter, plus blues guitar legend Peter Green, our hopes were justifiably high for the record. Featuring eleven new songs, including the sublime A Dream That’s Floating Out To Sea, the … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Dan Whitehouse
London based The Inky Depths play melodic indie in a slightly Big Star or Elliott Smith-type vein. They self-released an album, Just A Phase this week. We have a couple of very promising tracks from it for you to check out and download – the hypnotically catchy November and the altogether noisier, janglier, Doesn’t Matter At All. Both are well worth investing some listening time … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Inky Depths
New York City based Americana trio, The End of America have released their new single, Silver AM. The track features the band’s signature three part harmonies as well as moody psychedelic textures in a full band orchestration that sounds like it has just been transported by a time machine from Laurel Canyon 1973…it rocks like a modern Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. . Continue reading MM Shorts 452: The End Of America
Muchacho De Lujo is the deluxe edition of Phosphorescent’s outstanding 2013 album. De Lujo, out on October 29th on digital and CD formats, features bonus material from an intimate pre-release live show recorded at St. Pancras Church in London. The set, performed with Matthew Houck on guitar and Jo Schornikow on piano, features Muchacho’s Song for Zula, Pride’s Wolves, and a cover of Waylon Jennings’ Storms … Continue reading Phosphorescent Releasing Deluxe Version of Muchacho
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