So here we have it – the top of the pile! Our favourite songs of 2018. 25 Ought – Disgraced In America Way back in January, Montreal based quartet Ought kicked off 2018 with the bright guitar sound and ultimately noisy percussion and spaced-out synths of Disgraced in America. It was a fine start. 24 Spiritualized – I’m Your Man I’m Your … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Songs of the Year – Part 4 (25-1)
Into the top half of our favourite songs of the year. Here are tracks 50 through to 26. 50 Murder By Death – True Dark Murder By Death have built a career on gothic country rockers and sun-baked desert folk, yet even after all these years they still manage to surprise and True Dark is them at their twangiest best. 49 Fontaines DC … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Songs of the Year – Part 3 (50-26)
The second instalment of our favourite tracks of 2018. Enjoy… 75 Holly Miranda – Golden Spiral This wonky, horn-led track taken from her excellent Mutual Horse album, dips its toes into the swirling whirlpools of off-kilter indie pop with a buoyant rhythmic pulse and nods to glam rock and funk. 74 Ezra Furman – Suck The Blood From My Wound Suck The … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Songs of the Year – Part 2 (75-51)
It’s time for MM’s annual round up of our favourite songs of the year. Thanks as always go to all our regular contributors – Mrs Mackerel, Chris T Popper, the Italian Job, Polly Pocket and a very welcome return to the fold for Dr Roddy. So without further ado, lets start the countdown. 100 Cabbage – Preach To The Converted In a year that … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Songs of the Year – Part 1 (100-76)
Heard the brilliant Fall Asleep by London three-piece Big Joanie on the Marc Riley show whilst driving back from Peterborough on Tuesday night. Did a bit of googling and discovered they’d just released their debut album Sistahs. Inspired by The Ronettes, Nirvana, Breeders and Jesus and Mary Chain, the three-piece have described themselves as being “similar to The Ronettes filtered through ’80s DIY and Riot Grrrl … Continue reading Big Joanie – Sistahs
Fat Earthers -Letter Bomb Howe Gelb – A Thousand Kisses Deep (featuring M.Ward) The Chills – Bad Sugar Mount Hudson – Write A Book Yak -Fried Steve Gunn – Stonehurst Cowboy Continue reading Six Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Moulded in the raw poeticism of Lou Reed and Nico-era Velvet Underground, sixteen year old Gabriella Rose’s dynamic songwriting comes from a deeply broken place. Her roots inject even more piercing context to the songs on her debut Lost In Translation EP, on which her voice houses her turbulent past – the loneliness, the uncertainty, and the gloom. But in analyzing her past, she has taken those experiences … Continue reading Introducing >>> Gabriella Rose
Willard Grant Conspiracy – Untethered Preoccupations – Pontiac 87 (Protomartyr cover) Mercury Rev – Sermon (featuring Margo Price) (Bobbie Gentry cover) Avett Brothers – Roses And Sacrifice Girlpool – Hire FEELS – Car Willie Watson & Tim Blake Nelson – When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings D.B. Rouse – About The Bite Missing From Your Sandwich … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Rebelling against her classical upbringing, Anemone band leader Chloe Soldevila traveled the globe, where she immersed herself into the psychedelic traditions of Southern California and the punk/new wave scene from France, to which she returned home to Montreal with a clear vision of wanting to form her own band. The band’s debut album Beat My Distance (out in Feb) is a blast of ’60s-tinged dream … Continue reading Introducing >>> Anemone
With their sound rooted in shimmering indiepop with an undercurrent of darkness, Chorusgirl blend the sparkle of 80s bands like The Cure and the Cocteau Twins, with the close harmonies and surf-inspired indie of Dum Dum Girls and La Luz. The lyrics run from the abstract to the personal, are delicate and angry, but layered underneath a measured dose of noise and happy fizz. We first … Continue reading Chorusgirl – Demon Baby
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