We’ve already posted Tweak Bird’s superb A Sun Ahh Ahh, which is certain to feature in our end of year Best Of list. Now the Illinois based brothers have made a second track available for free download in advanced of their self titled album which is released on August 30th. Lights In Lines is another excellent example of their space travelled themed psych-rock and further … Continue reading More from Tweak Bird
We’re absolutely loving this sonic blast of intense, hypnotic pyschedelic rock from Welsh sextet White Noise Sound. It comes from their debut self-titled album (out on 21st September) and it is no surprise to discover the band had assistance with the record from no less than Pete Kember (Spacemen 3, Spectrum etc.) and Cian Ciaran from Super Furry Animals. Lead track is Sunset and from … Continue reading Introducing…White Noise Sound
We’ve been away for most of the past two weeks and relying on forward scheduling posts for the most part, but it means we’ve missed out on some of the more recent releases. So a first quick trawl through the in box has picked out these three for you. First up is Glitter, the first single from the forthcoming No Age album Everything In Between. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Post-Holiday Round Up
Sleep All Day Records is one of those small indie labels that it is always a pleasure to receive stuff from. It doesn’t come often, nor with oodles of PR bumf, but invariably Craig at the label picks some cracking tunes and lets them talk for themselves. And so it is with these latest releases. We have two tracks for you – infectious punk pop … Continue reading New Releases from Sleep All Day Records
Well, the family shoal is spread far and wide this Friday 13th, with me and the two youngest visiting friends in Switzerland, and MM plus the eldest in the more tropical climes of Morocco looking for wildlife, mainly of the scaly kind. I find August quite a strange month, and possibly one of my least favourites, aside from the welcome family time. (I know there’s … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday
Nick Marsh, lead singer with 1980’s alternative goth-rock luminaries Flesh For Lulu (yep, we loved ’em) and lead guitarist in London’s raucous 10 piece gypsy blues outfit The Urban Voodoo Machine finally officially releases his haunting solo album, A Universe Between Us. To listen to this album is like pulling up a stall beside some beaten barfly loosened by liquor, contemplating life, love and loss. Like … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Nick Marsh
We received this track in our in-box from a mysterious someone who may or may not have any connection with The Dead Brothers. Either way, it is quite the most tasty cover we’ve heard in a long while, Bauhaus’s stonewall goth classic Bela Lugosi’s Dead given a poisonous yet intimate makeover incorporating the doom of Wagner’s gothic and the in-bred sound of cowshit on snakeskin … Continue reading Introducing…The Dead Brothers
Amen Dunes is the performing name of one Damon McMahon and he has just released a new seven track EP of hazy, sunlit psychedelic folk titled Murder Dull Mind. It came out via the excellent Sacred Bones label. We have the title track for you here and while on the surface it is sweet enough (with even an underlying pop sensibility), it still has a … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Amen Dunes
The Holy Cobras hail from Canada and deal in a marvellous blend of droning, krautrock rhythms under a full-on fuzzed-up garage stomp. Feed Yr Head is (I think) their first 7″ single, having previously released some stuff on tape, and is a keeper. And if you like the single, you can also get a free download of a four track EP/album titled Dead Bodies Float … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Holy Cobras
Once again, Insound have produced a storming free monthly mix. Like the Clash magazine mix we posted about earlier today, these really are a delight and well worth waiting for. August’s effort features 15 tracks of all kinds including Jaill, Noun, Woven Bones, Magic Kids, Perfume Genius and MM faves and local Oxford lads Stornoway with the brilliant Zorbing – worth getting just for this track – … Continue reading Insound’s free August Mix
