The Minks debut album more than tipped its hat to The Cure and the golden age of 80s UK indie. Araby is their new single and the influences are still apparent in this endearingly gloomy slice of indie-pop. Buy from Captured Tracks. Download The Minks – Araby mp3 (from Araby 7″) Continue reading MM Shorts 3: The Minks
Here are a few tasty covers that are worth more than a moment or two of your time. We have MM faves Deer Tick taking on ZZ Top’s Cheap Sunglasses, Asobi Seksu’s hazy version of the Walkmen’s Little House of Savages and lastly rising folk troubadour James Vincent McMorrow who has covered Chris Isaak’s classic Wicked Game. Download Deer Tick – Cheap Sunglasses mp3 (ZZ Top … Continue reading Some Tasty Covers
Another bonanza month of top tunes, all rounded up for you in one perfect download mix. Here are the September highlights together, as always, with a couple of top-notch new tracks too. Download The Migrant – The Hurricane mp3 (from Amerika) Distinguished by a slow blues refrain, handclaps and a mournful vocal, it is one of those tunes that sounds like it has been around forever. Download … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: September 2011
It’s been an unfortunate week on the domestic front. Water continues to leak. Holes have been dug. In the right place and deep enough, who knows? If it carries on much longer I may jump in too. I wish Colin from Thames Water would understand that I simply don’t understand the mechanics and really have no desire to do the wrong thing. And football. I … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (30th September)
Gospel Music are purveyors of fine, lo-fi indie pop in the vein of Jonathan Richman or the Magnetic Fields. The excellent This Town Doesn’t Have Enough Bars For Both Of Us comes from forthcoming album How To Get To Heaven From Jacksonville, FL. Order from Kill Rock Stars. Download Gospel Music – This Town Doesn’t Have Enough Bars For Both Of Us mp3 (from How To Get To Heaven … Continue reading MM Shorts 2: Going Gospel
The Animal Of Choice is a new track from The Daredevil Christopher Wright. It comes from their new, recently released EP, The Longsuffering Song and is six minutes of folk goodness that travels from a gentle acoustic start to a full-on stomp and then back again, and all the while offering up lyrics like these: “Wooly and wild, everyone that I meet thinks I’m lovable. … Continue reading New From The Daredevil Christopher Wright
Really enjoying the new single of fuzzed out garage goodness from Bleached. You Take Time is the ultra-catchy b-side to their Carter 7″. Vinyl available from Art Fag Records. Download Bleached – You Take Time mp3 (from Carter 7″) Continue reading MM Shorts 1: Bleached Take Time
No need to say anything – just get this. Order Believers from Amazon here. Download A.A. Bondy – Surfer King mp3 (from Believers) Continue reading AA Bondy Offers Free Download From Believers
Here is another track of lo-fi folky goodness from Hypocrite In A Hippy Crypt’s album Tweaker In The Park – 11 tracks about crazy people, oceans, and murder. Order the CD here. Download Hypocrite in a Hippy Crypt – The Down mp3 (from Tweaker In The Park) Download Hypocrite in a Hippy Crypt – The Town Crazies mp3 (from Tweaker In The Park) Continue reading Another From Hypocrite In A Hippy Crypt
We posted last month about Sick Figures new album – a morbid tale of two lovers, titled Two Ghosts. The album got its official release yesterday and here are two more tracks for you to sample. The brilliantly off-kilter Whiskey Song with its military beat, chaotic sounds and chanted lyrics that calls to mind a nursery rhyme composed by Charles Bukowski at his most pissed … Continue reading Sick Figures New Album Released
