Chad VanGaalen – Old Heads Mutual Benefit – Diamond Day (Vashti Bunyan cover) Jen Cloher – Forgot Myself Lo Tom – Covered Wagon The Deslondes – (This Ain’t A) Sad Song NØMADS – Dementophobia Winter – Jaded Offa Rex – The Old Churchyard The Yawpers – Mon Dieu Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Leeds-based trio Night Owls have announced their return with brand new single Out of My Head, out now via Till Deaf Do us Party Records. It builds handsomely on the fuzz-drenched, slacker-influenced grunge pop of their 2016 debut EP Informaldehyde. By taking a leaf out of the shoegaze scene handbook, the new single sees them taking a doped-up, dreamy and melodically obtuse approach to their raucous, … Continue reading Night Owls – Out Of My Head
We shared the throbbing, confrontational punk of Chest Pains’ pay-what-you-want single Petrified earlier this month and now we have the follow up for you. Like Petrified, Shame is a track that seethes and churns, frustrations threatening to boil over, but just about held in check by tense guitars that every now and then gallop away backed by a frenzy of clattering percussion. Good stuff indeed. Listen … Continue reading More From Chest Pains
Danish five piece Lød’s debut track, the pulsating hypnotics of the eight minute Folder has been one of our favourites of the year so far, so we’re delighted to be able to share the second track from their upcoming self titled EP. Today it is the the clanging motorik groove of Så Bla, a minute longer and again sung entirely in Danish, it is just as … Continue reading Lød Share New Single Så Blå
We first posted about L.A. Witch back in March last year and now the threesome have signed to Suicide Squeeze Records for the release of their eponymous debut album. Reverb-drenched guitar jangle and sultry vocals conjure the analogue sound of a collector’s prized 45 from some short-lived footnote cult band. The melodies forgo the bubblegum pop for a druggy haze that straddles the line between … Continue reading L.A. Witch – Untitled
We have a hopelessly inadequate amount of time to listen to all the new music we receive, even after we automatically filter out the remixes, electro-bangers, and crappy dance tunes we get sent. So here is a hasty pick and mix selection for you of some of the best of recent weeks – just dive in… Rainy Sundays comes from a Tomkins Square reissue … Continue reading Mega Round-up Time
Chest Pains come from the Leeds non-profit / DIY scene (called CHUNK) making confrontational punk tracks drawing on awkward social interactions and the frustration of their home-town frozen in deep conservatism. We’re loving their first single, Petrified that has got a real throbbing Protomartyr / Holograms feel to it. Stream it below or get on a pay-what-you-want deal from Bandcamp here. Continue reading MM Shorts 953: Chest Pains
Waxahatchee’s forthcoming album is titled Out In The Storm and this track Never Been Wrong opens the record. Powerful stuff too, built on a grungey 90s guitar riff and full on percussion, it tells the tale of a disintegrating relationship with unflinching, unsparing lyrics. A break-up anthem par excellence. Stream it below. Continue reading New From Waxahatchee
Guantanamo Baywatch – Video Slaid Cleaves – Drunken Barbers Hand The Districts – If Before I Wake Marika Hackman – Cigarette The Orielles – I Only Bought It For The Bottle TOPS – Further Muertos – Spin Tom Williams – Get High Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Stockholm quartet Les Big Byrd are back with new music after a two year absence with their new single Two Man Gang, via Stockholm label PNKSLM Recordings. It is a pop inspired piece of cinematic krautrock that builds up to a wholly satisfying coda…stream it here. Continue reading MM Shorts 950: Les Big Byrd
The Mad Mackerel 