Bury, Manchester five-piece Ethan & The Reformation are all set to take off on their magic carpet whilst putting a contemporary twist on lost 60s psychedelia that allows them to make the most alluring escapist music. Across its 7 minutes, new single Free From Everything, is full of Eastern promise as its sucks up the dust from melodic artefacts through history and scatters it wide over a … Continue reading MM Shorts 957: Ethan & The Reformation
Hiss Golden Messenger – Standing In The Doorway L.A. Witch – Kill My Baby Tonight Offa Rex – Sheepcrook and Black Dog Caroline Says – Winter Is Cold Wand – Plum Hans Chew – Give Up The Ghost Terry – Glory The Mynabirds – Cocoon Guantanamo Baywatch – Area 69 Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
At the start of the year, London label Fuzz Club Records put out a brilliant new record from Mexican duo Has A Shadow – a menacing, nine-track dive into motorik, almost-gothic post punk propelled by eerie organs, metronomic percussion, screeching guitars and haunting, atonal vocals. Watch the video for Sorrow, one of the stand out tracks from the record. Continue reading MM Shorts 956: Has A Shadow
Absolutely loving the new single from Cabbage. Celebration Of A Disease comes from their forthcoming release The Extended Play Of Cruelty, out on the 21st July via Skeleton Key Records. It is a brilliant mix of mutated groove and indie rock and is one of our favourite tracks of the year so far… Stream it below. Continue reading Cabbage – Celebration Of A Disease
It’s been ages since we’ve posted a round up of some of the new music videos we’ve liked. Here then is a Sunday treat for you…eight of the best. Kevin Morby’s title track off his forthcoming record, City Music nearly hits the 7-minute mark and challenges what fans may have come to expect from him. The song builds like a slowly accelerating subway train, as does this … Continue reading Video Round Up
Chad VanGaalen – Old Heads Mutual Benefit – Diamond Day (Vashti Bunyan cover) Jen Cloher – Forgot Myself Lo Tom – Covered Wagon The Deslondes – (This Ain’t A) Sad Song NØMADS – Dementophobia Winter – Jaded Offa Rex – The Old Churchyard The Yawpers – Mon Dieu Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Danish five piece Lød’s debut track, the pulsating hypnotics of the eight minute Folder has been one of our favourites of the year so far, so we’re delighted to be able to share the second track from their upcoming self titled EP. Today it is the the clanging motorik groove of Så Bla, a minute longer and again sung entirely in Danish, it is just as … Continue reading Lød Share New Single Så Blå
We first posted about L.A. Witch back in March last year and now the threesome have signed to Suicide Squeeze Records for the release of their eponymous debut album. Reverb-drenched guitar jangle and sultry vocals conjure the analogue sound of a collector’s prized 45 from some short-lived footnote cult band. The melodies forgo the bubblegum pop for a druggy haze that straddles the line between … Continue reading L.A. Witch – Untitled
We have a hopelessly inadequate amount of time to listen to all the new music we receive, even after we automatically filter out the remixes, electro-bangers, and crappy dance tunes we get sent. So here is a hasty pick and mix selection for you of some of the best of recent weeks – just dive in… Rainy Sundays comes from a Tomkins Square reissue … Continue reading Mega Round-up Time
Taking influences from house music to post-punk, West African music, Tropicália, gamelan and more, the songs on Psymon Spine’s eclectic new album You Are Coming To My Birthday partner fuzzy synths with distorted bass lines, and lush vocal harmonies coupled with flowing string arrangements. It is giddy, euphoric stuff – watch the video for the propulsive, guitar driven Experience Machine and stream another of the album’s standout … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Psymon Spine
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