New Zealand psychgazers Surf City return with an album of sticky summer jams and fuzzy swirls and out and out dream pop blasts. Harnessing the explorations of 2013’s We Knew It Was Not Going To Be Like This into more focused packages, the group still delivers reverb-soaked joy at every turn in their endeavours to deliver the perfect jittery motorik pop song, Check out Hollow Veins … Continue reading MM Shorts 669: Surf City
Time for some more entertainment in the form of musical films. Here are ten of the more entertaining tunes and videos that have landed in our in-box over the past couple of weeks. They come from the likes of Protomartyr, Dogheart, Split Screens, Mind Brains, Colleen Green, Gaz Coombes, Slaves, …And The Hangnails, Jamie T, and Tom Williams. . . . [Click through for free download] . … Continue reading Mega Video Round Up
Surf influenced garage rock four-piece Daddy Issues (but not the same Daddy Issues we posted about late last year!) have just released their debut EP Double Loser. Confused? Don’t be! The EP opens with Sex On The Beach with its fabulous harmonies and thumping percussion, and then swerves into a risqué love song of sorts with the infectious and irrepressible So Hard (love the fact they’ve added the … Continue reading Debut EP From Daddy Issues
1955’s new EP is called The French Had A Name For It and was released earlier this month. A copy just arrived at MM Towers… It’s raw rock and roll without any processed shellacking – lean, tight songs with a stripped back garage rock feel and with a lovely, simplistic clarity to them. Lead single is Upside Down. Watch the video for it and download … Continue reading MM Shorts 667: 1955
A whole host of excellent new videos have come our way recently. Check out new musical films from Laura Marling, Spector, Stealing Sheep, The Rebel Light, Skinny Lister and Run Rabbit Run. . . . . . . Continue reading Video Round-Up
H. Hawkline (aka Huw Gwynfryn Evans) releases his excellent off-kilter new single, Spooky Dog, on Heavenly Recordings on Monday 23rd March. Watch the curious video – a smorgasbord of psychedelic imagery, disgusting eating, and oddball animation. Marvellous stuff! . . Continue reading New Video: H. Hawkline – Spooky Dog
Tomorrow sees the release of SOFT, the new album from Rathborne, a band centred on songwriter Luke Rathborne. At times bouncy-Ramones, with splashes of Dylan, Pavement, The Strokes and Lou Reed, SOFT feels concise and poppy, with plenty of darkness lying under the surface, dusting its cotton candy melodies with a fine layer of grit. Nowhere is this better demonstrated than on the latest track to be … Continue reading Rathborne – SOFT
That’s right, title says it all. But if you’ve not wrapped your ears round these yet this week, now’s your chance. 1. Steve Gunn & The Black Twig Pickers – Trailways Ramble 2. Wire – Joust & Jostle 3. Marika Hackman – Monday Afternoon 4. Speedy Ortiz – Raising The Skate 5. Yowler – The Offer 6. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love 7. Low Low Low … Continue reading Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
As an almost perfect companion post to our earlier sharing of Early Ghost’s excellent excursion into vintage 60s psychedelia we now have Hidden Charms for your listening pleasure. Indisputably drawing from the same era, but with an emphasis on the sharper mod sounds of The Kinks, The Who and their ilk, It’s Time is a modern, vibrant, and wholly infectious take on a classic era that sounds … Continue reading Introducing >>> Hidden Charms
In much the same way as the Allah-Las brilliantly (and effortlessly) appropriated the long past psychedelia of the West Coast and blended it with a contemporary twist, the new single from Early Ghost, Devil’s Got Me Now does exactly the same from a British perspective. They take a vintage sixties summer-of-love vibe that sounds like a long-lost classic of pastoral psych-folk and give it just enough of … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Early Ghost
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