Papercuts has shared a new video for Life Among The Savages, the title track from their new album. The video juxtaposes a casual afternoon trip to the Zoo with intimate scenes between friends indoors. . [Click through for free download] . Continue reading Video: Papercuts – Life Among The Savages
Previously we’ve just offered Best of the Month postings with downloads, but that excludes so many quality songs we’ve decided to just post our favourite tracks – irrespective of whether they are free to download or not. If you like them add them to your Spotify playlists or do the old fashioned thing and download them from iTunes, Bandcamp, or wherever. Anyway, with a bit … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Months: March – May (Part 1)
Six years in the making, SixToes have announced their second album The Morning After. They have also shared a new, brilliantly animated video for the track Hawthorns. It serves as the album’s harrowing peak, with the lyrics dealing with a female’s abusive relationship with first her father, and then spouse. The album also features the single Low Guns, with vocals from Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan. Watch … Continue reading Video: SixToes – Hawthorns
It has taken more than three years but at last The Phantom Band are back with a new album Strange Friend. Their bold experimentation with krautrock, folk, electronics, all melded and seamed within a mine of good old fashioned indie-rock has long been missed round this parts and it is good to report that the first taste from the new record, The Wind That Cried … Continue reading Welcome Return Of The Phantom Band
1. Old Crow Medicine Show – Brushy Mountain Conjugal Trailer 2. Kult Country – Trembling Moon 3. Dust From 1000 Yrs – Party Song 4. Bonnie “Prince” Billy & The Cairo Gang – We Love Our Hole 5. Beach Day – All My Friends Were Punks . . . . . . Continue reading Five Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Work has been more than hectic lately, but conversely that seems to have coincided with listening to more music too – maybe the extra time sat on the train or in the car? Who knows or cares, but it does mean a collection of mighty fine tunes for you to welcome home the weekend too… We kick off with a brilliant track of hypnotic garage-psych … Continue reading Time For A Friday Round Up
Sharkmuffin’s brand of noise-punk and psych-pop has been a regular feature on MM. This is the video for the excellent Foul Play from post recent EP release 1097. . . Continue reading Video: Sharkmuffin – Foul Play
Next week the Wind-up Birds will release their second full length long player Poor Music. It is a collection of 17 tracks of scalpel-sharp observation that lay bare the nuances of life in the UK with an unflinching honesty and eye for detail. Black humour abounds, and if ever there were a band for whom the proverb “many a true word said in jest” applied then … Continue reading The Wind-up Birds – The Gristle
The Yetis is a band name that sounds like it should come straight from the classic flower-power era of the 60s, and this surf-pop quartet from Philadelphia certainly have a lovely vintage, retro feel to their sunny psych-infused garage jangle. Download/listen to Warm California and Girl, I Wanna Be Your Man. . . Continue reading MM Shorts 564: The Yetis
Not Kings is the title song of the forthcoming debut album from Candy Says, Oxford’s lo-fi recording collective, Camilla closes the record. The album is out on the 28th May and is a twelve song collection of off-kilter, experimental garage pop that defies categorisation (despite all our best efforts in this same sentence). It is quirky, sometimes jaunty, sometimes maudlin, often perplexing and undeniably affecting. Listen … Continue reading Candy Says – Not Kings
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