Nottingham’s Do Nothing have shared the video for rousing track Contraband, taken from their excellent five track debut EP Zero Dollar Bill – out now on their own imprint Exact Truth. Their mix of skewed art-pop, full on acerbic rage and mordant black humour are all well to the fore in the video! The vinyl is long gone, but you can still buy a digital copy of … Continue reading New Video: Do Nothing – Contraband
London-based indie-pop trio Dream Wife will release their new album So When You Gonna… this summer, and they have shared the album’s second single Hasta La Vista, accompanied by a music video compiled from childhood home footage. They have also launched a So When You Gonna… podcast series. Having always been outspoken about holding up other women and non-binary people in the arts and creative industries, … Continue reading New Video: Dream Wife – Hasta La Vista
We’re slowly catching up with a whole host of releases we missed, forgot or plain didn’t hear about. Aussie foursome Terry have featured plenty of times on MM, often making our year end best lists too. Having been pretty quiet lately (for them anyway) they popped back up in March with a typically catchy slab of punk-pop for the Sub Pop singles club. So, better … Continue reading Terry – Take The Cellphone
Almost five years ago we posted about Brighton’s Slum Of Legs, praising them for their brilliant, motorik punk and then, completely unnoticed by us, the band released their debut album at the end of March. Across ten tracks, the six-piece band are as fierce and as uncompromising as ever, melding defiant dissonance and danceable disco into a sonic whirlwind that somehow manages to be as … Continue reading Debut Album From Slum Of Legs
Discovered these two tracks via Soundcloud last night and liked them a lot. Ohmme are a Chicago based duo and have a new record Fantasize Your Ghost, coming out on the 5th June via Joyful Noise Recordings. 3 2 4 3 was the lead single from it with it’s brilliant opening, “Looked in the mirror the other day / Caught my reflection / My mouth had moved … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Ohmme
We’ve become quite taken with the Cool Greenhouse’s new single Life Advice, the second from their forthcoming self-titled debut. It is skewed indie pop of the best kind – a lyrical jab at the kind of pithy, cure-all aphorisms that you find in your useless self-help books or scribble into the margins of your boring diary, and with which the kids seem to have developed … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Cool Greenhouse
Car Seat Headrest’s latest single from upcoming album Making A Door Less Open is called Hollywood. Check out the video for it here: a fun/riotous/terrifying take on Hollywood culture, with Will Toledo at his megaphone-screaming best, while the animated video sees his alter ego Trait taking a simultaneously exhilarating and terrifying haunted ride through Tinseltown. The album is released on the 1st May via Matador Records … Continue reading Car Seat Headrest – Hollywood Video
Here is a second taste from the upcoming album Vincent’s Playlist from Virginia Trance. After the ruminative Hello Lou Reed, new single Sway mines classic 80s indie pop evoking a gauzy and lush atmosphere of psychedelic jingle-jangle reveries that echo the likes of Felt or the Dream Syndicate. Stream it here. The album is out on the 8th May – you can order from Bandcamp … Continue reading More From Virginia Trance
Singer-songwriter Laura Marling has shared details of a surprise new album which will be released on Friday 10th April via Chrysalis/Partisan. It is her seventh solo release, and titled Song For Our Daughter, it’s preceded with the first single, Held Down. With a touch of melodic poppiness to it, you can stream it below. Continue reading Laura Marling Announces New Album, Shares Held Down
We’ve already shared the excellent Mark Zuckerberg single from Nap Eyes, and now we have the latest track from their upcoming album Snapshot of a Beginner, which is out on the 27th March via Jagjaguwar So Tired is a change of pace from the irrepressible catchiness of the last single, a more mournful, resigned slice of slacker rock that just begs for a hot water … Continue reading Nap Eyes – So Tired
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