Ah, how we’ve missed the marvellous Parquet Courts… They’re back with a new album, Wide Awake!, and a track of two halves, Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience. The first typically frenetic and jerky, the second half a classic Courts’ indie-punk anthem. Watch the lyric video below. Continue reading Parquet Courts Are Back
The Men are sharing the final single from their upcoming LP, Drift before its release on March 2. Killed Someone harks back to the Leave Home or Open Your Heart era of the band with a breakneck pace and the huge fuzzed-out riffs that put that band on the map to begin with. Really looking forward to this album… Continue reading The Men – Killed Someone
We’re absolutely loving the new single from Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. Channelling past masters like the Modern Lovers, The Fall and Iggy Pop, as well as contemporaries like Idles and Shame, Chequeless Reckless is built on a great hypnotic, kraut-rock infused cyclical riff, and some scalpel sharp lyrics. We’re pretty damn sure it is going to end up in our end of year best of lists… A sellout … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Fontaines D.C.
Catch It is Iceage’s first new material since 2014’s Plowing Into The Field of Love. Recalling the Bad Seeds or a more brutal version of the Cure, the song thrums with barely restrained tension, teetering on the verge of collapse for the first three and a half minutes while Elias Bender Rønnenfelt’s lyrics plumb the deepest corners of human emotion – intimacy, betrayal, and contemplation, before exploding into … Continue reading Iceage – Catch It
We recently shared Russian Baths’ excellent What’s Your Basement, a marvellously queasy slab of noise rock, and now we have the follow-up for your listening pleasure. Poolhouse is a slightly more restrained affair, with a woozily elegant yet sweetly off-kilter middle bookended by rushes of swelling, noisy guitars and thunderous percussion. Good stuff. Dive in here. Continue reading More From Russian Baths
PJ Harvey & Harry Escott – An Acre Of Land Goat Girl – The Man Screaming Females – No More I Love You’s (Annie Lennox cover) EELS – Today Is The Day Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Middle America King Tuff – Psycho Star Say Sue Me – Old Town Shakey Graves – Counting Sheep Plain Dog – Reptile Boy … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We loved Disgraced In America, the most recent single from Ought’s soon to be released new album Room Inside The World (out via Merge Records on the 16th). Now we can share the album’s side one closer, Desire, with you. Marvellously described by bassist Ben Stidworthy as “Sade meets Bruce Springsteen,” the song employs a 70-piece vocal choir and uncovers a romantic side of the band … Continue reading More From Ought
Hookworms – Static Resistance Thurston Moore – Mx Liberty Olden Yolk – Vital Sign King Tuff – The Other Wye Oak – The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs Alexis Krauss & The Our Land Collective – Our Land Charly Bliss – The Way You Wear Your Head (Nada Surf cover) A Place To Bury Strangers – Never Coming Back The Messthetics – Serpent Tongue … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Here is the second track from The Men’s upcoming long player Drift, and it stands in sharp contrast to the synth-driven dancefloor stomper Maybe I’m Crazy which we shared here. This time, Rose on Top of the World is much more akin to a pastoral, paisley filled, psychedelic jam that is closer to the Silver Jews than Ministry. The great thing is that, in it’s … Continue reading More From The Men
We shared Brooklyn-based noise-rockers Russian Baths single Ambulance way back in March 2016, and now we are sharing What’s Your Basement, which is the second single off of their forthcoming, debut EP, Penance. It is a two minute blast of brilliantly queasy, discordant guitars and crushing percussion that has more than a taste of vintage Sonic Youth about it. Liking this… a lot. Continue reading New From Russian Baths
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