With an amalgamation of genres, an intriguing mix of pop, punk and alternative rock, Milo Gore draws influence from a variety of artists such as The 1975, Bears Den and Idles. In turn, their own sound sits closer to the likes of The Strokes, The Hunna and Blossoms. Latest single, Green Eyes is an effervescent slab of indie rock that bounces along on a tide … Continue reading Milo Gore – Green Eyes
The Growlers have shared a new single, Dream World, which was recorded after sessions for their last album, 2019’s Natural Affair LP. The track imagines an alternate universe available to everyone, if you want it. Upright pianos, razorwire guitars, and singer Brooks Nielsen’s most prescient lyrics to date invite us all to embrace the other side, whatever that might be…. call it danceable garage pop … Continue reading The Growlers – Dream World
Lockdown has given us an opportunity to get a little more up to date with our posts and to catch up, a little, with some of the many, many tunes that come our way. Given it is Friday and a Bank Holiday here in the UK, we’ve rounded up a few tunes that we would have liked to have given a bit more time and … Continue reading Something For The Weekend…
Small Song is a single taken from Paddlefish’s new album Flyer. The album was written over the course of principal songwriter Owen Misterovich’s first year away from his hometown of Springfield, Missouri, and inspired by the disappointment he experienced after moving to Chicago at the age of seventeen, where he found himself braving the first harsh winter in a windowless dorm room in the heart … Continue reading Paddlefish – Small Song
LA duo Gum Country’s self-described “harsh twee” project began back in Vancouver as a series of lo-fi four track recordings made in an apartment, very quietly. After relocating, the pair recorded their debut full-length album Somewhere, which draws on influences from Sterelolab and The Replacements to The Magnetic Fields and Yo La Tengo. The record is out on the 19th June and the second single from … Continue reading Gum Country – Tennis (I Feel OK)
Benjamin Shaw originally released his marvellous debut There’s Always Hope, There’s Always Cabernet back in 2011 and now Audio Antihero are offering a completely remastered resissue on a pay what you want deal via Bandcamp. It includes no less than eleven bonus recordings including unreleased and radio session recordings. All this seemed a perfect excuse to remind ourselves just how good, and unique, these eclectic … Continue reading Benjamin Shaw’s There’s Always Hope, There’s Always Cabernet Remastered and Reissued
Influenced just as much by 80s New Wave acts such as Talking Heads and The Associates, as they are by the queer modern art-pop sensibilities of St Vincent, Glasgow based Walt Disco’s new single Cut Your Hair is an anthem for a new generation of misfits exemplifying everything the band are about. The single is lifted from the band’s debut EP due later this year, the track … Continue reading Walt Disco – Cut Your Hair
Much heralded London six-piece Sports Team will release their debut album Deep Down Happy on the 19th June. It is collection of sharply drawn pen portraits of small-town torments, inequality and escapism that documents modern Britain in all its messy, messed-up complexity. They have shared a new single and video from it and the upbeat, hectic Going Soft is about a vibrant slice of exuberant indie rock … Continue reading Sports Team – Going Soft
A long time ago West Virginian Jason Ward was a favourite on MM, particularly of Mrs M as one of his songs, the acerbic Bless You was a perfectly timed tune for a somewhat tricky period. Anyway, he has returned under the moniker of Spiteful Bum with a new album of lo-fi garage pop which he describes as “singing about our lives, your lives, depression, love, lust, anger and … Continue reading Spiteful Bum – Jot Down The Dope
Brooklyn five piece Pale Lights have been around since 2011, and latest single for Slumberland Records, You And I, is as classic a slice of indie jangle as you’re ever likely to hear. As the Bandcamp blurb puts it, “Sporting an indelible melody and some very fine guitar strum ‘n’ jangle, it is the sort of tune that 7″ singles were invented. By the time … Continue reading Pale Lights – You And I
The Mad Mackerel 