Category: Psychedelic

Ambient, Folk, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock

Mad Mackerel Recommends…Alexander Tucker

Thrill Jockey are rapidly gaining a firm place in our affections with their uniquely off-kilter and diverse offerings making them a label to treasure. The latest release to cross our in-box comes from idiosyncratic singer-songwriter Alexander Tucker. Notwithstanding the sleeve art for Third Mouth, which Mrs M for one will find most acceptable, this record breaks new ground for Tucker by combining minimalist string arrangements … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Alexander Tucker

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Alternative, Electronic, Indie, Music, Psychedelic, Rock

Introducing >>> Yohuna

On April 17th Art Fag Recordings are releasing the debut record by Yohuna. Revery was originally self released in a tiny edition of 50 cassettes. Now, remastered, it’s being released on 7″, cassette and digitally worldwide. With a Casio keyboard, layered vocal arrangements and vehement, minimal beats, she writes sedated, downbeat anthems. Sounds and lyrics drip with moody reference to past love, loss, reflection and … Continue reading Introducing >>> Yohuna

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Acoustic, Alternative, Americana, Blues, Country, Electronic, Folk, Garage, Gothic, Indie, Metal, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock, Rock & Roll

Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: March 2012

Here is our cherry picked selection of our favourite downloads from March for you, together with a few new tracks to create a perfect end-of-month mix. Enjoy. Download Thee Exciters – Dinosaur Traffic mp3 (from Perpetual Happening) Psychedelia meets proto-punk Download The Lonesome Savages – All Outta Love mp3 (from All Outta Love 7″) 50s inflected rock’n’roll revamped and updated with elements of the current garage punk sound – … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: March 2012

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Introducing >>> Virginia Wing

On Tuesday 2nd April Sexbeat will release the first offering from Virginia Wing (It’s Grace Slick’s mom’s name), featuring current members of Lets Wrestle. The release will be limited to 50 on Gold Cassettes – you can hear the two tracks Divination and A Worn Path below. They are two tunes of cracking psych-rock that effortlessly weave in elements of chamber pop and pastoral folk harmonies, … Continue reading Introducing >>> Virginia Wing

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Alternative, Ambient, Americana, Electronic, Folk, Garage, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

New Releases Round Up

Here are some ‘hot outta the in-box‘ new releases that are well worth exploring. First up is a new track from the Forty Nineteens forthcoming debut No Expiration Date. Truckers Song is another slice of garage inflected pop-punk that sounds as though it were forged in the underground scene of late 80s Los Angeles. Download The Forty Nineteens – Truckers Song mp3 (from No Expiration … Continue reading New Releases Round Up

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Americana, Folk, Indie, Music, Psychedelic, Rock

Hush Arbors & Arbouretum Split LP For Record Store Day

Thrill Jockey are releasing a split LP by Hush Arbors and Arbouretum on Record Store Day, and we have a track from the Arbouretum side for you to check out and download. In their own ways, each been exploring for years now the intersection of progressive folk and psychedelic rock and so it seems a good fit for a split release. Hush Arbors are all … Continue reading Hush Arbors & Arbouretum Split LP For Record Store Day

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Alternative, Blues, Garage, Music, Psychedelic, Rock

Freak Out With The Graceful Slicks

The Graceful Slicks are Oxford’s very own psych-rock warriors pumping out swirling, stoned, krautrock inspired grooves with a tasty side order of blues inflected garage and shoegaze. They have made a few demo EPs available via their Bandcamp pages and the latest (Demo 4) has three excellent tracks to sample. So seeing as it is Friday, why not turn down the lights, stick on the … Continue reading Freak Out With The Graceful Slicks

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Alternative, Americana, Country, Folk, Garage, Indie, Metal, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

Thursday Means Six More Of The Best

Been a little while since we’ve rounded up a few of the best tunes that have found their way into our iTunes library recently. So, here is a great way to kick off your Thursday with six tracks gathered from our in-box and our favourite blogs. First up is the brooding psych-rock of Creepoid and a slow burning track from Horse Heaven called Dream Out. … Continue reading Thursday Means Six More Of The Best

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Free Mixtape From Titus Andronicus

Literate, histroy-loving, raucous New York punks, Titus Andronicus are probably in the top five bands we’d like to see live, having inexplicably foregone the opportunity when we were at SxSW in 2009. They have just made this new track available for your listening pleasure, the typically lengthily named Upon Viewing Oregon’s Landscape With the Flood of Detritus. It comes from a new split single with recent … Continue reading Free Mixtape From Titus Andronicus

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