Time for a quick and dirty round-up from our unkempt and overflowing in-box, looking back over the past month or so. We have fuzzy art-rock from Sego who mix together warped psych rock and indie pop to create bleak pop songs that soar into big hooks and brilliant melodic noise. Opting for a slower tempo on Cigarette Kids, their most recent single is less skronk and more … Continue reading Round Up Time
Screaming Females – I’ll Make You Sorry Car Seat Headrest – Fallen Horses (Smash Mouth cover) Sunflower Bean – Twentytwo Wavves & Culture Abuse – Big Cloud Mount Eerie – Tintin In Tibet Speedy Ortiz – Lucky 88 Wye Oak – It Was Not Natural Rixe – La Cle Melvins – Stop Moving To Florida Table Scraps – Lyin’ Thru Yer Teeth Father John Misty … Continue reading Twelve Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Hull’s Black Delta Movement are a raucous psych-rock band that trip over into garage and punk, and who will release their debut album Preservation on the 30th March. First taste comes with the propulsive, throbbing King Mosquito – two and a half minutes of MC5 and Sonics inspired goodness, that we’re loving here at MM. Stream it below, loudly. Black Delta Movement Continue reading MM Shorts 999: The Black Delta Movement
If, like us, you have a thing for dystopian folk, abstract poeticism and motorik rhythms then Olden Yolk can happily tick those boxes for you. The New York-based group led by songwriters, vocalists, and multi-instrumentalists Shane Butler (of Quilt) and Caity Shaffer, are set to release their self-titled debut album on 23rd February via Trouble In Mind. We previously shared tracks Takes One To Know One and Vital Sign, and now we have latest … Continue reading Olden Yolk – Cut To The Quick
Okkervil River’s new record is called In The Rainbow Rain, and is released on the 27th April. Described as a buoyant and playful record spattered with starbursts of electric guitar, big blooms of synth, and a chorus of backing vocals, the first taste is Don’t Move Back To LA, the light-hearted midpoint of the album. Bandleader Will Sheff says the song “had a very straightforward impulse behind it: … Continue reading Okkervil River – Don’t Move Back To LA
Here is a second track from psych-rock supergroup MIEN. With members from The Black Angels, The Horrors, Elephant Stone and The Earlies expectations are naturally high and Earth Moon delivers in spades. A hypnotic, transcendental groove with its roots in the mystic sounds of the east combines with the wide-eyed innocence of the peace and love era of the sixties. Listen here. Their self-titled debut album is out on … Continue reading MIEN – Earth Moon
Hookworms – Static Resistance Thurston Moore – Mx Liberty Olden Yolk – Vital Sign King Tuff – The Other Wye Oak – The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs Alexis Krauss & The Our Land Collective – Our Land Charly Bliss – The Way You Wear Your Head (Nada Surf cover) A Place To Bury Strangers – Never Coming Back The Messthetics – Serpent Tongue … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
The third in the Marfa Myths series of releases will be seven all-new songs written and recorded by Stockholm’s psychedelic masters Dungen in collaboration with adventurous Brooklyn indie-folk pioneers Woods. On the face of it, it should be a match made in musical heaven and judging by the languid, exploratory, and dynamic, first track Turn Around, we’re in for a treat with the full album. Listen … Continue reading New Dungen & Woods Collaboration
Here is the second track from The Men’s upcoming long player Drift, and it stands in sharp contrast to the synth-driven dancefloor stomper Maybe I’m Crazy which we shared here. This time, Rose on Top of the World is much more akin to a pastoral, paisley filled, psychedelic jam that is closer to the Silver Jews than Ministry. The great thing is that, in it’s … Continue reading More From The Men
Ultimate Painting have announced the release of Up!, a record we’re very much looking forward to, and their first for the Bella Union label. It will be out on the 6th April, and is available to preorder here. They’re also heading out on tour (dates below). The band has also shared a first track from the LP entitled, the meandering, gentle indie-psych of Not Gonna Burn Myself Anymore. Listen … Continue reading New Album From Ultimate Painting
The Mad Mackerel 