Dinosaur Feathers have released a new song, a plaintive, evocative and obviously topical tune called Juror B37. Not only is it damn good, it is available as a free download from their Soundcloud until August 2nd. They’re asking that if people download the song, they consider making a donation to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Continue reading MM Shorts 415: Dinosaur Feathers
Another in our semi-regular round-up of the best tunes to hit our inbox and the web. First up is another track from Scott & Charlene’s Wedding’s imminent new album, Any Port In A Storm. This latest, the album closer Wild Heart has more of a classic American slacker-pop feel to it a la Pavement or Mission Of Burma, it is a laconically heartfelt tale of … Continue reading Wednesday Means Six Of The Best
Doc Feldman & The LD50 officially released Sundowning At The Station a few days ago via This Is American Music. It was recorded in Lexington, KY with help from friend and sometimes collaborator (and oft-celebrated MM fave), James Jackson Toth aka Wooden Wand. The album is the singer-songwriter’s first since the breakup of his last band Good Saints. After a few listens we are willing to … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Doc Feldman & The LD50
Straw Bear’s album Black Bank (via Oilbug Music) was one of our favourite discoveries of last year, blending the eerie vistas of the Fens with oddball folk and a smattering of pop licks. Taken from the album, the band’s sparkling new single is Snobbery, it is accompanied by a video shot in the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square showing the band playing while watching a … Continue reading Straw Bear’s Snobbery
Following the loss of frontman Daniel Blumberg to Hebronix, Yuck are back with a new track, the chiming, and appropriately named, Rebirth. It sits somewhere between Beach House’s dream pop and some of the less histrionic and fragile soundscapes of MBV. Download it below. Continue reading Yuck Are Back
Acclaimed jewel of dark country blues Cash Savage, and her band The Last Drinks, release their second LP The Hypnotiser on Friday 2 August. A mix of blues, hardscrabble barn-dance stompers, psychedelic country and raw soul, the record swings from emotion to emotion – one minute mournful lament, the next bare knuckled rage with nary a backwards glance. It is a record that is at once … Continue reading New Album From Cash Savage And The Last Drinks
Black Tambourines’ self titled album is due for release on 2nd September. To mark the occasion, the band are giving away a typically alluring of garage-psych goodness from it in the shape of the hook filled, sunny vibe of Bodies. Grab it below. Order the album here. Continue reading MM Shorts 411: Black Tambourines
Elevator is the first single from TV Ghost’s forthcoming album Disconnect. They have incorporated churning rhythms and psychedelic drone into a lush torrent of sprawling guitars and eerie melody – drawing from Can’s hypnotic krautrock, while infectiously adding a grinding, goth sludge of Heaven Up Here-era Bunnymen. Over it all stark, disconnected vocals deliver a maelstrom of brooding, sonic menace. Love this. Listen to it here. Continue reading New From TV Ghost
The Mother Hips’ eighth studio album, Behind Beyond, is out on the band’s own Mother Hips Records imprint. The album marks 20 years since their first release for Rick Rubin’s American Recordings. The band have premiered a free album track, Song for JB, written for the late Jay Bennett of Wilco, via Rolling Stone. It is a touching, affecting track and shows they’ve lost none … Continue reading MM Shorts 410: The Mother Hips
A sudden plethora of new tunes have hit the web, and here are eight of our favourites for your aural delight. First up is psych-heavyweights White Hills persistently hypnotic In Your Room that comes from the space rockers forthoming album So You Are … So You’ll Be, which is out next month on Thrill Jockey. Regina Spektor has an upbeat new song featuring in new Netflix … Continue reading Thursday Means Eight Of The Best
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