30 Meat Wave – The Incessant 29 L.A. Witch – L.A. Witch 28 Oh Sees – Orc 27 Pissed Jeans – Why Love Now 26 Deer Tick – Deer Tick Vol. 1 25 Ty Segall – Ty Segall 24 Public Service Broadcasting – Public Service Broadcasting 23 Phoebe Bridgers – Stranger In The Alps 22 Alvvays … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Albums Of The Year
75 Sleaford Mods – Moptop 74 Silver Torches – If I Reach 73 Idles – Divide And Conquer 72 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Rattlesnake 71 King Krule – Dum Surfer 70 Naomi Punk – Chapter II 69 The Reptaliens – If You Want 68 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – French Press 67 Ron Gallo … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Tracks Of The Year 75 – 51
100 Anna St. Louis – Fire 99 Deep State – No Idea Pt. II 98 Ron Gallo – Really Nice Guys 97 Wooden Wand – Aurora 96 Diet Cig – Sixteen 95 Prism Tats – The Liar 94 Julie & The Wrong Guys – Love And Leaving 93 Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile – Continental Breakfast 92 … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Tracks of the Year 100 – 76
Lucy Dacus has announced detail of her new album Historian which will be released on 2nd March, along with new track Night Shift. Night Shift is a six and half minute opus, moving from gently strummed guitar and dulcet vocals to a distorted, throbbing, emotional crescendo. It also opens with possibly our favourite line of the year so far, “The first time I tasted somebody else’s spit, … Continue reading New Album From Lucy Dacus
Our twelfth festive offering comes from indie-poppers Spook School, and their brand new seasonal single, Someone To Spend Christmas With. Stream it here, and watch out for the release of their upcoming third album Could It Be Different?, which is due on 26th January on Slumberland Records (USA) and Alcopop! Records (UK). Continue reading It’s Christmas… Festive Tune No. 12: Spook School
Girl Ray’s seasonal single (I Wish I Were Giving You A Gift) This Christmas is out now on a Moshi Moshi 7″. It is a song as witty and wistful as any on their debut album, Earl Grey, and is about yuletide loneliness and longing, finding the North London trio embracing a seasonally sonic palette of children’s choir, sleigh bells, and the hidden whinny of a … Continue reading It’s Christmas… Festive Tune No. 11: Girl Ray
Scotland’s Bubblegum Lemonade deal in pristine, almost too-perfect indie pop. Taken from their new EP Laz Christmas, we have Number One For Christmas for you – a surefire Christmas earworm with shimmering guitars, a big pop chorus and plenty of sleigh bells. Bubblegum Continue reading It’s Christmas… Festive Tune No. 6: Bubblegum Lemonade
Brighton / London fuzzy four-piece Beach Riot share a mutual love for making a lot of pop fuelled noise – distorted haze compiled with big hooks and a distinctive raw energy that takes it’s influences from the likes of Queens of the Stone Age, Cable, Sleater-Kinney and Pavement, their sound is brash and untamed. New single She’s A Hurricane has a lot going for it. Have a … Continue reading MM Shorts 988: Beach Riot
First Aid Kit – Fireworks No Age – Drippy Alela Diane – Émigré’ Calexico – Voices In The Field Olden Yolk – Takes One To Know One Craig Finn – Fault Lines (Mountain Goats cover) Ty Segall – The Main Pretender The Orwells – Vanilla The Soft Moon – It Kills Graham Coxon – Falling Continue reading Ten (Count ’em) Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We’ve posted stuff from ShitKid a few times. It is the project of Swedish artist Åsa Söderqvist, and following her excellent debut LP of quirky, anti-pop Fish, she will release a new EP This Is It in January. First taste is Oh Me I’m Never – retaining the lo-fi quality of earlier recordings, it is a hypnotic slab of quirky indie rock that sounds like a … Continue reading ShitKid – Oh Me I’m Never
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