We shared Ritual Howls’ Park Around The Corner last month, a noisy combination of drum machines, synths, fuzz bass and twangy guitar, and now we have Spirit Murder for you – happily in much the same vein. Listen below for a blast of darkness with a buried pop sensibility… Continue reading More From Ritual Howls
Woozy, psych-pop weirdos, Happyness have announced that a brand new EP, titled Tunnel Vision On Your Part, will be released this September 23rd through Moshi Moshi Records. The lead track on the EP is Anna, Lisa Calls – stream it below. Continue reading New From Happyness
Having spent a mighty fine week soaking up the sunshine in Crete we are feeling pretty good about life. And if that wasn’t enough here are ten of the best of the week’s new releases (as judged by us of course). They Include the very welcome return of fire and brimstone gothic folkies Wovenhand and Argentinian garage-posters Las Kellies, cracking tracks from Bueno and Okkervil River, … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
So Cow have now been around for over 10 years. Lisa Marie Airplane Tour is their fifth album, although there are those who could argue that it is number six, seven or eight depending on how much value can be placed on temporary bandcamp releases or hastily uploaded .zip files. No matter, these are twelve songs about anxiety; written in the midst of it, but … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… So Cow
Out today on Lazy Octopus Records, Under The Palm Trees is the first new material from Anti Pony since their debut 7″ on PNKSLM in 2014. It is a perfect slice of hazy, summer-soaked psych-pop infused with a spaghetti western twang. Perfect. Give it a spin. Continue reading MM Shorts 864: Anti Pony
Our favourite Montreal psych-rock trio Elephant Stone have announced their fourth full-length Ship Of Fools, which will see a digital release on September 16 via Elephants on Parade and a physical release on November 25 via Burger Records. The group has shared album opener Manipulator together with a lyric video for the track with the simple statement “Pokémon GO = Mind Control.” The song retains their trademark psychedelia whilst … Continue reading New Album From Elephant Stone
Despite boasting a moniker than suggests some kind of hardcore thrash punk outfit, Organised Scum are altogether more subtle than that. Instead they deal in off-beat, melodic arrangements more akin to Pavement, Lambchop, or XTC. The duo’s debut double-A-side single, Insane Making Behaviour/Who’s the Prick? officially came out yesterday and is a top quality combo of stoner-folk, slacker melancholy and svelte indie-pop. Listen below or download both tracks for free here. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Organised Scum
It has been a good while since we last shared a Nickel In The Jukebox post, but here are ten tracks making up for lost time. You decide… hit or miss? My Son Bison – Two Faces And A Vase [RIYL: Psych-pop, The Beach Boys, The Shins] The Blind Owls – All Day And Night [RIYL: 60s Pop, Little Richard , The Kinks] … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 21)
Here’s a second track from the Allah-Las much anticipated new album Calico Review out via Mexican Summer on the 9th September. This is Could Be You, and it is another gem from their collection of classic, psych-infused, pop jangles. Pre-order the album here. Continue reading More From Allah-Las
Ultimate Painting – the two singular voices of Jack Cooper and James Hoare, who met when on tour together with their other bands Mazes and Veronica Falls – will release their third album Dusk on Trouble In Mind Records on the 30th September. The first single is Bills, a track which dives head-first into a perfectly formed, crystalline pool of jangle. Stream it below. Continue reading Ultimate Painting – Bills
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