Here are a few tasty new releases and a couple of tracks acquired via the blogosphere to brighten up your Friday. A veritable smorgasbord for you to sift through and pick out the ones you like. First up is a second track from Canadians The Rural Alberta Advantage taken from their (very good) new album Departing and showcasing again their ear for a perfectly pitched … Continue reading New Release Round Up
We’ve mentioned the excellent label Sleep All Day Records before on MM and they have been back in touch to say they are gearing up to release the second EP from East London’s Weird Dreams titled Hypnagogic Lullaby. Following the band’s sold out tape on Sleepy King Cassettes, and a split 7″ with Brooklyn’s Total Slacker on Marshall Teller Records, Weird Dreams see the addition of a … Continue reading New EP from Weird Dreams
Here we are again. A mix of the best tracks we posted in February and a few new ones too. Twenty seven cracking songs to immerse yourself in! Download O’Death – Bugs mp3 (from Outside) Echoes of their ramshackle and punkish best, but this time it is cocooned in something more subtle and thoughtful too. Download The Whalers – That Rabbit mp3 (from How The Ship Goes … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: February
Fosdyk Well have entered the realm of nightmares and dreamscapes with mini album Slumber And Stark Lots. It is a brilliantly disorientating mix of uneasy folk and ambient experiment where it seems as though… well nothing is actually what it seems. We’re absolutely loving the off-kilter acoustic strum and queasy feel of First Gravity – happily it makes Fosdyk Well another strong candidate for our favourite new … Continue reading Introducing…Fosdyk Well
A few new videos that have caught our eye… The Airborne Toxic Event have released the first video in their new weekly video series, The Bombastic. This is a weekly series of one-shot, one-take acoustic performances by the band featuring new songs from the band’s upcoming sophomore album All At Once, to be released on April 26. This week’s video features the title track to … Continue reading New Videos
Here are a bunch of tunes that we’ve meant to post about for a while, but wanted to do them a bit more justice too than it turns out we’re able. It is the regular refrain of blogs like ours we know, but it doesn’t make it feel like any less of a cop out to not find the time to write these up properly. … Continue reading Wednesday’s Pick ‘n’ Mix Selection
A psychedelic-dark-pop group from Ohio, Wolf Ram Heart is bent on marrying art with popular music. Their new album, Betrayal of Hearts, is a hybrid of pop’s faded echoing sensibilities, influenced by the productions of Phil Spector and Brian Wilson as much as 4AD and Creation Records acts of the early 90s. The band’s music combines heavily layered moments and deceptively complex melodies, all sewn … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Wolf Ram Heart
Moon Duo have finally released details of their debut album titled Mazes. It will be out on the 18th April on Souterrain Transmissions. We have the title track for you here, and this record is a must for any fans of psychedelia, drone-rock, stoner riffage or anything similar. Featuring the not inconsiderable talents of Sanae Yamada and Wooden Shjips guitarist Ripley Johnson it promises to be … Continue reading Moon Duo Announce Debut LP
We’ve posted a couple of times about the new album from The Asteroid #4. Hail To The Clear Figurines is the sixth album by these Philly psychonauts and is officially released today. To mark the occasion the band have made a new track available for free, and it is one of our stand-out favourites from the record. Album opener Wicked Wire may only be just over two minutes … Continue reading The Asteroid #4 release new album today
Upon your first listen to this record you may think that you’ve just stumbled onto some lost nugget from 1968. The Paperhead take their name from a lyric in July’s golden-age psychedelic single My Clown, and while the record may have a vintage sound, it was written and recorded in the summer of 2010 by three 18 year old kids from Nashville, Tennessee. Neo-psych fans … Continue reading Introducing…The Paperhead
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