We rounded-up and shared a few songs yesterday that we had missed while posting our countdown of our favourite songs of the year. Here is a second helping for you… First up is Sweden’s Second Oracle who create dreamy soundscapes where flute and organ meets heavy percussion, bass and guitar – twisting and turning psychedelia into new shapes and forms. Check out their debut single Seabird’s Lament. … Continue reading End of Year Catch-Up (Part 2)
Having been very focused on our Best of Year tracks recently, we’ve built up a bit of a backlog of new tunes to share, so thought we’d spend a couple of posts catching up and try to slip them in before the end of 2018. First up, it has been nearly 13 years since his proper debut as Viking Moses, and Baltimore musician Brendon Massei … Continue reading End of Year Catch-Up (Part 1)
So here we have it – the top of the pile! Our favourite songs of 2018. 25 Ought – Disgraced In America Way back in January, Montreal based quartet Ought kicked off 2018 with the bright guitar sound and ultimately noisy percussion and spaced-out synths of Disgraced in America. It was a fine start. 24 Spiritualized – I’m Your Man I’m Your … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Songs of the Year – Part 4 (25-1)
Into the top half of our favourite songs of the year. Here are tracks 50 through to 26. 50 Murder By Death – True Dark Murder By Death have built a career on gothic country rockers and sun-baked desert folk, yet even after all these years they still manage to surprise and True Dark is them at their twangiest best. 49 Fontaines DC … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Songs of the Year – Part 3 (50-26)
The second instalment of our favourite tracks of 2018. Enjoy… 75 Holly Miranda – Golden Spiral This wonky, horn-led track taken from her excellent Mutual Horse album, dips its toes into the swirling whirlpools of off-kilter indie pop with a buoyant rhythmic pulse and nods to glam rock and funk. 74 Ezra Furman – Suck The Blood From My Wound Suck The … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Songs of the Year – Part 2 (75-51)
It’s time for MM’s annual round up of our favourite songs of the year. Thanks as always go to all our regular contributors – Mrs Mackerel, Chris T Popper, the Italian Job, Polly Pocket and a very welcome return to the fold for Dr Roddy. So without further ado, lets start the countdown. 100 Cabbage – Preach To The Converted In a year that … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Songs of the Year – Part 1 (100-76)
It somehow seems appropriate that a band called Cabbage, an irreverent, malevolent, and downright scuzzy band to boot, should choose to share a Christmas record. The result, Smells Like Christmas, is another addition to their catalogue of churning, scathing post-punk releases imbued with more than their usual dose of grim, observational humour and existentialist dread. This is a festive song more likely to sit somewhere … Continue reading Cabbage – Smells Like Christmas
Irish art punks Silverbacks have shared an excellent new track – Just In The Band – it is out tomorrow on PK Miami. Produced by Daniel Fox from fellow Dubliners Girl Band (when will we get something new from them?) the single has the same nagging unease as previous (outstanding) single Dunkirk with taut drums and unrelenting bass underpinning seasick guitar arps and Daniel O’Kelly’s … Continue reading New From Silverbacks
Willard Grant Conspiracy – Untethered Preoccupations – Pontiac 87 (Protomartyr cover) Mercury Rev – Sermon (featuring Margo Price) (Bobbie Gentry cover) Avett Brothers – Roses And Sacrifice Girlpool – Hire FEELS – Car Willie Watson & Tim Blake Nelson – When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings D.B. Rouse – About The Bite Missing From Your Sandwich … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
The brilliant Anglo/US/Swedish noiseniks FEWS have announced details of the follow-up to their debut album (2016’s Means) with Into Red, which will be released through Play It Again Sam on 1st March next year. They’ve also shared the video for their excellent new track Paradiso. It is another example of their slashing, incandescent guitars and ferocious, pummelling percussion. Catch them live next March: … Continue reading FEWS – Paradiso
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