With more than passing nods to Alvvays, The Jesus & Mary Chain and Angel Olsen, Gothenburg’s Holy Now trade in a veritable pop dream of delirious vocals, riveting guitar solos and complex sensibilities that is tinged throughout with the faintest whiff of melancholy. Debut single Wake Up, backed with Please Love Me, is out on the 19th August via Beech Coma. Listen below. Continue reading Holy Now – Wake Up
Here is this week’s round up of new tunes. We have nine tracks for you from the kaleidoscopic pop of Ezra Furman to the fuzzy shambling pop of Fireworks by way of the infectious hooks of Dogbreth and the Mercury Rev inspired psych of Avers. Enjoy. Cass McCombs – Run Sister Run Ezra Furman – Teddy I’m Ready Tacocat – I Live For The Sun (Sunrays … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Well, on this gloomiest of weeks a little ray of sunshine perhaps with some new music gathered up from the best of the last seven days (oh the irony). So while Johnson and Gove revel in the toxic slime of their own making and the Labour Party implodes, hit play on nine new songs from the likes of Devendra Banhart, ShitKid, Wymond Miles, The Wind-Up Birds and covers … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Earlier this month we shared the excellent Radius from Swedish indie rockers Hater. It was the title track of their forthcoming three track EP and now they’ve given us a second taste with the more subdued and melancholy First Time. Equally good though. Listen below. Continue reading More From Hater
Long standing MM faves, L.A. based Allah-Las will be releasing their new album Calico Review on September 9 via Mexican Summer. The band has also shared a video for the first single Famous Phone Figure. The track cradles character sketches over delicate strains of viola, organ, and Mellotron. Drummer Matthew Correia carefully underlining a three-note theme that casts a phantom sadness over the proceedings, as bassist Spencer … Continue reading New Video: Allah-Lahs – Famous Phone Figure
Melbourne, Australia’s Chook Race formed in 2010 as a scrappy, garage/surf band, but soon developed a greater pop sensibility, born of their love of Flying Nun bands and other bedroom favorites. New album Around The House will be released in September via the Trouble In Mind label. It is comprised of ten oddly withdrawn, yet highly personal tunes, performed by the band with a desperate urgency creating … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Chook Race
Here are a couple of excellent new videos. The first by indie-pop quintet Night Flowers who have announced a new single, Glow in the Dark, due out on Dirty Bingo Records on 15th July. Filmed during their recent Japanese tour, the video was primarily shot in three continuous takes at 3am in Tokyo’s bustling Shibuya district – the result is a hazy, vibrant waking Tokyo dream. Psychic … Continue reading New Videos From Psychic Heat And Night Flowers
You know the score – a sweep up of some of the week’s best new releases, new tunes and new artists. This week we have no less than eleven tracks for you including The Avett Brothers, Left Lane Cruiser, The Devil Makes Three, Deerhoof and plenty more. Dive in… The Avett Brothers – Satan Pulls The Strings Band Of Horses – Barrel House Holly Miranda … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Here is the twentieth instalment of our Nickel In The Jukebox series, collecting ten new (and sometimes not quite so new) tunes from our inbox and sharing them for you to decide – hot or miss? Cheena – Car [RIYL: NY Punk, Gun Club, Lou Reed ] King Courgette – Courgette Boys [RIYL: Hoedown folk, Earl Scruggs, Holy Modal Rounders] Twin River – … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 20)
2015 saw the release of the wonderful Twisted Arrow, the debut single by Belfast’s Arborist, fronted by Mark McCambridge. A nonchalant and thoughtful piece of Americana, it features the casual yet unmistakeable tones of Kim Deal. It was very well received and was one of our favourite tracks of the year. Arborist’s music is measured and mature while remaining starkly modern. Centred around McCambridge’s soaring vocal and … Continue reading New From Arborist
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