Category: Pop

Alternative, Indie, Music, Pop, Post Punk, Rock

Brooke Bentham – All My Friends Are Drunk

  Brooke Bentham’s new single, All My Friends Are Drunk is a song for lost youth and young adulthood. With influences somewhere between Mazzy Star, Yo La Tengo, Sparklehorse and early Angel Olsen, the young singer/songwriter writes sharp and eloquent songs about her experiences and this one captures “that wishful longing for what was” in the self-destructivity of her and her peers. It is a truly exemplary display of … Continue reading Brooke Bentham – All My Friends Are Drunk

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Alternative, Indie, Music, Pop, Rock

Dry Cleaning – Viking Hair

Dry Cleaning have shared the second single off their forthcoming EP Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks. Invigorating and thoughtful, Viking Hair has their trademark repetitive, melodic guitar motifs ringing out over an energised rhythm section that builds to a gradual crescendo. Check out the video below, and also first single Sit Down Meal here. You can order the EP via Bandcamp here.     Continue reading Dry Cleaning – Viking Hair

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Indie, Music, Pop, Rock

Introducing >>> My Little Hum

California husband and wife duo My Little Hum will release their sophomore album, Pioneer on the 18th October. The fabulous artwork featured on the cover was created by master illustrator Wayne Brezinka who has done cut-out-style artwork for numerous top-selling albums. The eight tracks on the record glitter and shimmer with upbeat, breezy indie-pop, that is packed with lush female harmonies, bubbling bass lines and catchy melodies. … Continue reading Introducing >>> My Little Hum

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Alternative, Indie, Music, Pop, Punk, Rock

Vivian Girls – Memory

During their initial run as a band, Vivian Girls were a band of outsiders for outsiders – a band for the freaks and the malcontents. The ones who loved The Wipers as much as Burt Bacharach as much as The Shangri-Las. They were the band that made the punks feel like they could sing harmonies and pop fans could get in touch with their anger. … Continue reading Vivian Girls – Memory

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Indie, Music, Pop, Rock

Mad Mackerel Recommends… Dry Cleaning

Not in the literal sense obviously – though there is nothing wrong with a freshly laundered garment. No this Dry Cleaning is a south London foursome that are about to release their second EP, Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks, which follows their summer debut Sweet Princess. The music is wonderfully simple – direct and uncomplicated with unusual spoken word style vocals which gives the whole thing an … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Dry Cleaning

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Alternative, Indie, Music, Pop, Rock

Parsnip – Taking Me For A Ride

Following our earlier Dune Rats post, we’re keeping the Antipodean theme going with Melbourne four-piece Parsnip. When the Tree Bears Fruit is their debut album of playful, poetic, propulsive indie rock and follows on from two 7-inches in the last two years. They have shared a new single Taking Me For A Ride, an oddball pop gem laden with soft grooves, wide-eyed melodies and psychedelic hooks. … Continue reading Parsnip – Taking Me For A Ride

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Acoustic, Americana, Folk, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock

Vetiver – To Who Knows Where

Vetiver are back with a new album Up On High (out in October) and will be playing live in the UK in December. Have a listen to the acoustically styled, lush folk of To Who Knows Where with its lovely pastoral psych-pop flourishes. Gorgeous stuff. Live Dates 7 Dec 19 – Liverpool @ 81 Renshaw 8 Dec 19 – Manchester @ YES 9 Dec 19 – … Continue reading Vetiver – To Who Knows Where

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Alternative, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock

Whyte Horses Cover Plastic Bertrand

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s METZ cover of Gary Numan! Today it is a foot-stomping cover of Plastic Bertrand’s 1970’s classic Ça Plane Pour Moi, by psych-pop Mancunians Whyte Horses. It is a song which always puts a huge smile on my face whenever I hear the original or any of the many cover versions and adaptations of it. This one is no different. Enjoy…   … Continue reading Whyte Horses Cover Plastic Bertrand

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Alternative, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock

Allah Las – Polar Onion

The rain continues to come and go, Boris Johnson is still PM, we’re now planning for food shortages post Brexit… life in summer in the UK is pretty bloody grim sometimes. Then along come the Allah Las – new single Polar Onion fits the downbeat theme (“the creeping paranoia that comes along with creating something that is inevitably valued based on the opinions of others.“, they … Continue reading Allah Las – Polar Onion

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