Lauran Hibberd hails from the Isle of Wight, a place that us mackerels have many, many happy memories of, and so it is a pleasure to share her utterly charming new single Hunny, Is This What Adults Do? It is a brilliant slice of outsider, indie-pop with just the right amount of fuzz and shot through with a touch of Ingrid Michaelson or even Courtney … Continue reading MM Shorts 987: Lauran Hibberd
London band Calva Louise gleefully mix squalling guitars with the sweetest of pop melodies to create quirky, outsider punk rock that has nods to Pere Ubu, Talking Heads and the Sugarcubes. Listen to their blistering new track Getting Closer below. Continue reading MM Shorts 986: Calva Louise
Hailing outta Brisbane, Dumb Things have released their first self-titled album. It’s a collection of country-burnt pop songs, scruffy enough to get stopped at the door, but charming enough to talk its way in. Listen to the excellent opener Drivin’ Home that offers up more than a nod to Parquet Courts. The cassette can be bought for $5 via Bandcamp or the digital version is … Continue reading MM Shorts 983: Dumb Things
I Was A Fool is New York trio Sunflower Bean’s first new single since releasing their critically acclaimed debut album Human Ceremony last year. It is a sublime slice of dreamy, indie-pop that over three and a half minutes manages to expertly navigate a route that prevents it from ever becoming twee or overly saccharine whilst retaining a gentle, rolling charm all of its own. Listen below. As … Continue reading Sunflower Bean – I Was A Fool
Six corking new videos for six corking new (or newish) raucous tracks. Some of our favourite tunes of the year here… Continue reading New Videos: Cabbage | Phobophobes | Good Boy | Lovely Eggs | Dama Scout | Night Owls
Calexico – End Of The World With You No Age – Soft Collar Fad Jim White – Far Beyond The Spoken Word Father John Misty – Pure Country Hater – Blushing Django Django – Tic Tac Toe A. Savage – Ladies From Houston Surfing Magazines – One Of These Days Anna St. Louis – Fire The Deep Dark Woods – Deep Flooding Waters Miss World – … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Stockholm-based Delsbo Beach Club are set to release their instantly charming debut single All The Way Home on Swedish label Rama Lama Records on the 11th October. With nods to the likes of Mac DeMarco, check out their fuzzy indie pop melodies, with hints of classic garage and surf rock below. Continue reading MM Shorts 976: Delsbo Beach Club
Stockholm artist Nora Karlsson is back with a new single with her lo-fi pop project Boys, her first piece of new music since last spring’s Love on Tour EP, as well as an early taste of her upcoming debut LP. The single is called Rabbits and it’s also her first studio recording as well, a perfectly judged, sweetly melodic slice of jangly indie-pop that’s good enough to … Continue reading Boys- Rabbits
We’ve featured the bittersweet lo-fi indie of Manchester duo Luxury Death a few times in the past and they are back with a new single that traverses some sonically darker terrain. Diluted has a bolder, more aggressive feel, influenced as it is by industrial dance music and the club scene, offering up something more hypnotic and dystopian than we’ve heard previously. Stream it here. Continue reading Luxury Death – Diluted
Four cracking new tracks for you this morning. The latest from Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile’s much anticipated collaboration, another absolute shredder from Aussie duo DZ Deathrays, more potent pop-punk from Bully, and indie-pop God Ezra Furman’s new track Driving Down To L.A., which he describes as “This is a song of paranoia, escape and ecstatic ego-death. We decided to make a video about me and my … Continue reading New From Courney Barnett & Kurt Vile, DZ Deathrays, Bully and Ezra Furman…
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