Following the sad news that the Vivian Girls have decided to call it a day, we have at least received some form of compensation in the shape of La Sera’s fabulous first single, Losing To The Dark, taken from their forthcoming third album Hour of the Dawn. La Sera is the project of Katy Goodman, founding member of the Vivian Girls and All Saint’s Day, and … Continue reading La Sera – Losing To The Dark
The wonderful Sharon Van Etten’s new album Are We There is out at the end of May via Jagjaguwar. The first taste is the hazy dream-pop of Taking Chances, her gorgeous vocals drifting over a smooth, polished rhythmic backdrop. It is as close to Beach House as anything else and perhaps heralds a slightly different direction for the album. Listen for yourself. . Continue reading New Album From Sharon Van Etten
White Hinterland’s new album Baby is out on the 1st April, via Dead Oceans. Here is the distorted, cut-up title track, pretty much as fractured and experimental as indie-pop can get whilst still keeping a bass line going! . Continue reading MM Shorts 529: White Hinterland
Following our Best of February mix post earlier, we have now rounded up a few tunes for the start of March for you too. We can offer you ten cracking new tracks to listen to including post-folkies Peggy Sue, the heavy, slow burnin’ garage punk of Twin Berlin, some rootsy soul from Greyhounds, the first single of gritty Americana from Turchi’s forthcoming long-player, and a fabulous … Continue reading Round Up Time
Another month, another free mix of the best of our downloads from February. As always the mix includes some new tunes too from the retro 60s swagger of The Rebel Light, quirky bedroom pop from Copenhagen’s Eerie Glue, the excellent Lou Reed inspired, slacker rock of Posse, and King of Prussia’s literate, indie pop jangle. Download them all below. . The Woodgrains – Devils Disheveled … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: February 2014
Honey Do is the debut single from Beverly, a duo who deal in sweetly fuzzed up pop and who are influenced by do-wop style harmonies. It comes from their forthcoming debut album due this summer. . Continue reading MM Shorts 528: Beverly
We’re pretty taken with this track, Above My Ground by Landlady. It has been around for a while, but now newly signed to Hometapes, it is getting a new lease of life ahead of a summer album. It is described as a ‘disarming singalong anthem‘, which seems pretty accurate to us, though there is something distinctly oddball about it too, in a good way of … Continue reading Landlady – Above My Ground
Spoiling you with five excellent videos this morning. I don’t know where you are, but we’ve got yet another day of dank, dreary, drizzly rain and I need something to brighten up my Friday. So, contrast and compare scrappy indie jangle from Such Hounds, gentle intricate harmonies from The Sea The Sea, tough, catchy garage from The Coathangers, fevered, intense pop from Rare Monks, and … Continue reading Videos of the Day: The Coathangers || Reverend Horton Heat || The Sea The Sea || Such Hounds || Rare Monk
Los Angeles-based Line & Circle arrived on the national scene in 2012 after releasing acclaimed debut 7″ single Roman Ruins / Carelessness on White Iris Records. Last spring, they returned to the studio to begin recording new material developed during the band’s two recent tours. There, with nods to early 4AD dream pop and chiming I.R.S. Records-era guitar rock, the group pared the songs to … Continue reading Line & Circle – Mine Is Mine
Some excellent videos, mainly featuring deserts, suns and tribes oddly in one way or another, to start the day from the brilliant Desert Mountain Tribe, A Mini Tribe (who feature members of Sleepy Sun, Bella Vista and Són Boom and have a stripped back, gloriously spartan version of Nico’s These Days), The Big Sun, and finally New Desert Blues. . . . [Click through for free download] . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Desert Mountain Tribe || A Mini Tribe || The Big Sun || New Desert Blues
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