One suspects The Crocodiles have had the Echo & The Bunnymen manual out for this, their new single, Sleep Forever. In fact Barry-Sean from the office (and a great E&TB fan/expert/obsessive) was suitably moved to observe that everything right down to the vocal phrasing seemed deliberately Bunnyesque. However, as he also observed, this is no bad thing – especially when they also manage to bring … Continue reading New from The Crocodiles
The Local Natives have made a what seems to be a pretty big breakthrough with their debut album Gorilla Manor, deservedly picking up universal acclaim from critics (and fans) on both sides of the Atlantic. Now as part of what looks like a most promising Aquarium Drunkard digital compilation titled L’Aventure (which is a tribute to the 1978 Television album Adventure), they have covered the track Careful. … Continue reading Local Natives Cover Television for Aquarium Drunkard
Coasting is a Brooklyn duo (Madison & Fiona) that are starting to generate quite a bit of interest amongst the indie-cool and even the not-so-cool like us. We first heard them via the Friendship Bracelet series and now they have a debut triple A sided 7″ available via M’Lady’s Records. Part lo-fi garage, part sweet harmonies and part early 80s New Wave, check out Kids … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Coasting
We Are Country Mice released a couple of 7″ singles last year, one of which, the EP Make Your Own Damn Fun featured one of our top songs of 2009 in the stomping, infectious A Good Old Fashioned Barn Raising. So we have been waiting eagerly to see what they would be doing next. And now we know – it will be a limited edition cassette … Continue reading New from We Are Country Mice
Perhaps you thought this fish was too mellow for anything like the Butthole Surfers? Well this Friday, I’m most definitely in the mood for something with its roots in punk. This week has seen verbal slights and physical swipes a-go-go. All I can say is this: people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, and if you throw any more at my kids, prepare to get … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday
Rhode Island residents The Benedictions play what is often called called devil music. They must do because their just released album is called The Benedictions Play Devil Music. On this occasion it’s hard folk, hard blues, hard country. It conjures images of grizzled old timers with whiskey eyes stamping their boots on beer-soaked wooden floors before heading back out into the dusty desert. It is authentic, … Continue reading Introducing…The Benedictions
Judging by their press one-sheet alone, The Victor Mourning are one of those bands that MM tends to like a lot. It talks of performing dark, thought provoking, starkly haunting songs that tell the tales of grief-torn outcasts, of confidences betrayed, of piracy, and murder. It goes on to mention a song about a man who eats nothing but locusts and Campbell’s soup, another about a … Continue reading Introducing…The Victor Mourning
Last week we posted about the Adult Swim Singles Project and gave you the fourth in the weekly series of eight from Washed Out. The fifth is now doing the rounds and Before You Judge Me is a typically swaggering, boozy cut of garage rock from The Black Lips. Visit Black Lips MySpace here. Download The Black Lips – Before You Judge Me mp3 (from … Continue reading New from the Black Lips
California Shakedown comes from a new Pearl Harbor/Puro Instinct EP simply titled Puro Instinct. This track is an oh so dreamily seductive slice of icy pop, and has effortlessly wrapped MM around its little finger. We suspect the other three tracks on the EP are as equally likely to play the femme fatale and leave you a quivering jelly in no time at all. You … Continue reading Seduced by Puro Instinct
We came across The Real Burnouts Fully Involved EP as a free download (amongst many others) at the excellent Quixodelic Records. The band play a woozy, insistent blend of garage and psychedelic rock that is the equal of anything else we’ve heard in recent times – and there’s some serious competition out there. There are echoes of everything from krautrock to The Monkees to Spacemen 3 … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Real Burnouts
