We’re way late on this one, but having hit a (rich) psych-pop vein earlier, we’re now loving the 60s pastoral, jangly psychedelia of Candy Flip the debut 7″ single by another New York outfit, Spires. It is backed by the equally good, and vintage sounding, Comic Book. Fire up a fat one and listen below. Continue reading Spires – Candy Flip 7″
Zula are a four-piece psych pop band from Brooklyn. Their debut LP, This Hopeful, is currently streaming on SPIN, and gets an official release tomorrow (29th) on Inflated Records. Listen to the first single from the album, the irresistible Twin Loss, a perfect mix of sunshine, hypnotics, restlessness, and weaving, sinewy melody. Continue reading MM Shorts 465: Zula
Videos for Sunday morning come with some Dangerous Blues from Miraculous Mule, and from a excellent collaboration by Less Love and Wondernaut we have the video for their track Like Shaking Hands. We also have orchestral indie pop from The Cabin Project and some classic Americana from Brandy Zdan who used to be one half of the the brilliant and sadly defunct Twilight Hotel and … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Miraculous Mule || Less Love & Wondernaut || The Cabin Project || Brandy Zdan
Top notch videos to round off, and round up, the working week from Beach Fossils (trippy lo-fi), Such Hounds (ramshackle, punky Americana), Dark Bells (ethereal psychedelia), and The Head And The Heart (indie folk). . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Beach Fossils || Such Hounds || Dark Bells || The Head And The Heart
We are delighted to offer a premiere for Callow’s Philosophy from their forthcoming eight track release Blue Spells (which, by the way, includes our favourite song title of the year so far with closing track, Sex Moans for a Dead Man). Philosophy is a less experimental, a less frenetic, offering than their previous (excellent) single Strange. In fact it is, by some distance, some of the most gorgeously haunting … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Premiere: Callow’s Philosophy
Brisbane quartet Blank Realm will return with a new album, Grassed Inn, in January next year. It follows on from one of our favourite recent releases Go Easy, which we posted a number of tracks from earlier in the year. The new record is catchier, if lyrically darker, and our taster track Falling Down The Stairs has certainly veered away somewhat from the melancholy churn … Continue reading Blank Realm Announce New Album
Brighten the start of the working week by watching these excellent videos from Upset, from singer – songwriter Teitur, from As Elephants Are with the nagging melody and barbed wire rhythm of new single Crystal, and some excellent fuzzy garage rock from Aussie band New Regulars. . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Upset || Teitur || As Elephants Are || New Regulars
Time to round up a few more of the releases that have tickled our ears from the inbox and round the web. Ali Koehler has hitherto been best known as the drummer of the pop group Best Coast and the noisy girl punk trio Vivian Girls. After her departure from Best Coast, Koehler decided to step up from behind the kit to front a band … Continue reading Rounding Them Up Again
Englishman’s forthcoming effort Unsafe & Sound is the follow-up to their 2010 self-titled full-length studio album (which we posted about here), and will available on limited edition vinyl and digital formats on the 19th November. Download the indie folk pop of More Than Insects, the first taste from the seven track EP – it is a two minute gem. Download Englishman – More Than Insects mp3 … Continue reading MM Shorts 461: Englishman
Videos today come from Efren frontman Scott Low and a first taste from new solo record The Stories I Shouldn’t Tell in the form of Cactusgrass – a swirling and disorientating video perfectly suits the darkness and moodiness of the song. We also have the hypnotic and enchanting Cross Record’s appropriately haunting and off-kilter video for her brilliant track Maybe I’m Crazy. East India Youth’s striking … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Scott Low || Cross Record || East India Youth || Dead Wolf Club
The Mad Mackerel 