Due for release on July 23rd through the Young & Lost Club label, Emily is the third single taken from the Exlovers debut album Moth. Bursting with pop hooks, the single has beautiful boy-girl harmonies, layered over wistful, driving and determined lo-fi guitars. Have a listen… a Continue reading MM Shorts 195: Exlovers New Single
On August 14th Concord Music Group will release Just Tell Me That You Want Me, a Tribute to the enduring popularity of Fleetwood Mac featuring covers by such MM faves as The Kills, Best Coast, Tame Impala, Washed Out, MGMT and plenty more. For more details and pre-order options just click here. Otherwise, sit back and listen to a goodly chunk of the whole album … Continue reading Listen To The Fleetwood Mac Tribute Album
Good stuff coming out of our ears from every direction at the moment. Here’s a little round-up of eight of the best of them. Download them all below. First up we have punky psych-rockers Cult of Youth with a taste of forthcoming album Love Will Prevail (out September on Sacred Bones), this is Man And Man’s Ruin. Keeping the noise levels in the red are … Continue reading Thursday Means Eight of the Best
Sun Sister is a quartet from Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The band’s music can be described as lo-fi dreampop with warm melodies, gorgeous reverbed vocals and rough jangly guitars. They have a single out via the ever-wonderful Eardrums Pop for whom it is the latest in their series of excellent free singles. Download the whole package including the three tracks, artwork, and accompanying booklet, all beautifully put … Continue reading Free Sun Sister Single
We’ve posted a couple of times about the inventive and exuberant indie-pop of Saint Motel and yesterday they released their debut long player Voyeur. Voyeur is an album lush with stories that reveal themselves through thematic twists and turns with a narrative voice both subversive and sincere. With themes ranging from the lure of plastic surgery, to the dangers of honest feedback, to the taboo bonds … Continue reading Stream Saint Motel’s Debut Album Voyeur
Just last Saturday we featured Deep Time as our Video of the Day post, with their spooky song Clouds from their self-titled debut album. The album is now officially on release and the duo have made a second cut from the album available for free download. This is Homebody, another densely melodic slice of restlessly minimalist indie pop. Theirs is a sound that manages to … Continue reading MM Shorts 189: Another From Deep Time
Although we now have a regular Video of the Day post on Mad Mackerel, we still can’t keep up with all that we’re being sent and here are a few more of the videos we would like to have featured well before now. Face-melting UK four piece Trails are making quite a name and quite a noise for themselves. Latest video is for new track Is … Continue reading Time For Another Video Round Up…
Well, Jesus may not want me for a sunbeam, but Beth Jeans Houghton has made me an honorary Hoof of Destiny. That tops all previous great life achievements, barring children/childbirth I think. I have been balancing on four coconut shells ever since, eating from a nosebag, rejecting my piscine ways and embracing the equine style. There are now plenty of flies on me, but none … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (6th July)
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