Hard to believe it has been five years since Manchester based trio PINS released Wild Nights. Again we’re a bit late to the party, but Hot Slick, their third long player will be out on 29th May via their own Haus of Pins label. Three tracks have already been shared from it (see below) and now we have Ghosting, which also features Nathan Saoudi from Fat … Continue reading PINS – Hot Slick
Cardiff’s post punk / grunge four piece Clwb Fuzz are a new discovery for us – we were trawling back through some old emails listening to stuff we’d not had a chance to check out and were very struck by the brooding intensity and menace of recently released single No Heaven, their first release on Libertino Records. Built on a darkly brooding bass line, purposive motorik … Continue reading Clwb Fuzz – No Heaven
Somehow we completely missed that Protomartyr have a new album coming out. Detroit’s post punk anti-heroes will release Ultimate Success Today, their fifth long-player, on the 29th May (pre-order here). This is the excellent first single, Processed By The Boys, which is a fierce, panic-fuelled ride and showcases the band at their reverb-laden heaviest. Listen below. Continue reading Protomartyr – Processed By The Boys
A little earlier this month, we were very sad to learn of the loss of Psychic Ills founder, frontman, and songwriter Tres Warren at just 41 years old. Regulars on MM, at the time of his death, Warren was overflowing with creativity, actively writing new songs, and excited about the next phase of the band and was getting ready to go into the studio alongside … Continue reading Psychic Ills Release Never Learn Not To Love / Cease To Exist 7″
Cabbage are back in our time of global crisis to share a new single – You’ve Made An Art Form (From Falling To Pieces) is three minutes of wiry, full-bodied and typically erudite new-wave-post-punk-agit-indie. Watch the band immersed in a world of heady, arts and crafts-meets-shroomy psychedelia for the single’s colourful video. Now just need to find something to fill the other twenty three hours … Continue reading Cabbage – You’ve Made An Art Form (From Falling To Pieces)
Brooklyn band SAVAK have shared their latest single, What is Compassion?, from their forthcoming album, the excellently titled, Rotting Teeth In The Horse’s Mouth. It is a wonderfully bleak sub-three minute blast of spiky, but infectious, post-punk. Another city Reduced to rubble Assets sold off Are we surprised? Stream it here. End of the World permitting, they will tour here in May. May 15 … Continue reading SAVAK – What is Compassion?
Nazarbayev Applause Laughing is the latest single from David Cronenberg’s Wife, taken from new album The Ship (Necrologies). It is another example of their brilliant lo-fi antifolk that thrums along in a hypnotic and surreal way. Acerbic and bleakly black humoured, the band are an acquired taste, but for those of you who like the off-kilter, the weird and the musical equivalent of the League … Continue reading David Cronenberg’s Wife – Nazarbayev Applause Laughing
Bristol’s LICE are back with a brand new single Conveyor, via their own label Settled Law. LICE first gained national attention with debut single The Human Parasite, which we loved, and which established a literate, eccentric brand of satirical art-punk. But what has followed has been a complete about-turn. Disillusioned with the sonic conservatism, twee platitudes and toothless commentary of the ‘satirical guitar music boom’ they … Continue reading LICE Share Conveyor & Announce Tour Dates
The Men are stalwarts of MM posts. Back with a new album (their eighth) titled Mercy, which is out on the 14th February via Sacred Bones, they have shared a first taste with Breeze. For those of you expecting a total fuzzed out stomper… you got it! Listen below. Continue reading The Men – Breeze
Porridge Radio are pretty new to us, but we’re loving the sounds of latest single Sweet. Sweet is a schizophrenic sounding track – on the one hand the verses are initially, like the song’s title, sweet, almost delicate, but as the song progresses, increasingly angry and cachophonous guitars squall and battle over vocals that are only a couple of decibels shy of unhinged. The whole … Continue reading Porridge Radio – Sweet
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