Courtly Love are merging bluesy tones with psychedelic hazes; a brand-new quintet from East London and one of those rare musical collectives who appear to have arrived fully formed and armed with clutch of quite wonderful tunes. They produce a gorgeous smouldering psych blues fusion, mixing the dark gutter glamour of the Velvets & Nico with the cinematic doomed grandeur of Serge Gainsbourg. Watch the … Continue reading Video: Courtly Love – Mirage
We’re loving Mick Jagger, (never imagined we’d be writing that), a six minute epic of resigned, weary psych-rock from rising Brooklyn five-piece Baked. It is the centrepiece of their forthcoming debut album Debt which mixes foggy, laid back psychedelia with flashes of fuzzed-up punk, indie rock and hazy pop to create a sonic whole of hypnotic rhythms and lush instrumentation. This is a record to lay … Continue reading Introducing >>> Baked
The KVB is the audio/visual project of London youngsters, Nicholas Wood and Kat Day, who combine reverb heavy wall of sound guitars, minimal haunting strings and grinding bass synths with messed up motorik drum machine beats and delay drenched vocals. Their Out Of Body mini album will be released on the 3rd June on A Recordings, and the sonically hypnotic Across The Sea is more … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… The KVB
Edmonton, Canada’s Michael Rault plays an infectious hybrid of ’70s psych-pop and contemporary rock that draws on influences as diverse as Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly, The Kinks and gospel music. It is showcased to good effect on the vintage sounding Lost Something. Visit his Bandcamp page here. . Continue reading Michael Rault – Lost Something
Previously we’ve just offered Best of the Month postings with downloads, but that excludes so many quality songs we’ve decided to just post our favourite tracks – irrespective of whether they are free to download or not. If you like them add them to your Spotify playlists or do the old fashioned thing and download them from iTunes, Bandcamp, or wherever. Anyway, with a bit … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Months: March – May (Part 1)
Joel Gion is best known for his contribution to the Brian Jonestown Massacre, but will release a solo debut, Apple Bonkers, in the summer. Preceding it is this excellent single, Overthrow backed by Night Of The Living Deadbeats released by the The Reverberation Appreciation Society in partnership with The Committee To Keep Music Evil. Listen to both below. Order the limited edition vinyl here. . … Continue reading MM Shorts 568: Joel Gion
It has taken more than three years but at last The Phantom Band are back with a new album Strange Friend. Their bold experimentation with krautrock, folk, electronics, all melded and seamed within a mine of good old fashioned indie-rock has long been missed round this parts and it is good to report that the first taste from the new record, The Wind That Cried … Continue reading Welcome Return Of The Phantom Band
1. Old Crow Medicine Show – Brushy Mountain Conjugal Trailer 2. Kult Country – Trembling Moon 3. Dust From 1000 Yrs – Party Song 4. Bonnie “Prince” Billy & The Cairo Gang – We Love Our Hole 5. Beach Day – All My Friends Were Punks . . . . . . Continue reading Five Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Work has been more than hectic lately, but conversely that seems to have coincided with listening to more music too – maybe the extra time sat on the train or in the car? Who knows or cares, but it does mean a collection of mighty fine tunes for you to welcome home the weekend too… We kick off with a brilliant track of hypnotic garage-psych … Continue reading Time For A Friday Round Up
Much under-rated psych-rockers Tweak Bird are back with a new album Any Ol’ Way. The two brothers from southern Illinois have put together another top notch collection of heavy, hooky riffs, distortion, and thunderous percussion mixed with blessed out psychedelia and sludgy stoner anthems. Take a listen to the excellent Greens below. Order the vinyl or grab a digital copy via their Bandcamp page here. … Continue reading New Album From Tweak Bird
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