Loving this track of blurry, slacker-psych-pop from Stockholm quartet Magic Potion. Milk is the first single taken from forthcoming long player Pink Gum. It is a gem of irresistible melody and sweetly laconic vocals that combine to create a utopia of hazy, blissed out euphoria. Wonderful. Listen below. Order from Bandcamp here. Continue reading Magic Potion – Milk
The Brainstems have shared an appropriately tripped out new video for their standout track of vintage garage-psych Time To Ride. Enjoy it below. Taken from the excellent album No Place Else, released late last year. Continue reading New Video: The Brainstems – Time To Ride
Another bumper round-up of new releases for you this morning. From the return of The Kills to Sturgill Simpson to the always brilliant Black Mountain by way of BEAK>. Ten new tracks – enjoy! Sturgill Simpson – Brace For Impact (Live A Little) Black Mountain – Florian Saucer Attack BEAK> – Timeshare Mitski – Your Best American Girl The Kills – Doing It To Death Fear Of Men – … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Following the release of their well received debut Horse Dance ate last year Sweden’s Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation return with a brand new edit of album track Sunny Afternoon. Taking a tribal Can meets Adam and the Ant’s’ like beat, fuzz bass, heavy synths and piano they create a gothy, psych pop groove that is hard to resist. Try it on for size. Continue reading Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation – Sunny Afternoon
With her much anticipated fourth album Crab Day due for release 15th April on Turnstile Records, and some live UK dates coming up, Cate Le Bon has today unveiled a video for new single Wonderful. Shot in Berlin, the video features Le Bon performing an idiosyncratic freeform dance-cum-exercise routine. Of the video, she simply says: “‘Wonderful’ is an awkward love song accompanied by an equally awkward video. … Continue reading New Video: Cate Le Bon – Wonderful
We’ve previously posted a couple of tracks from Stockholm garage rock combo Pinemen. Following on from their six-track debut EP Pleasant Pain, which found the band exploring garage rock, lo-fi pop and psychedelia, in a summery sound with a Scandinavian twist, the band is currently recording their debut LP. The album is scheduled for a autumn release this year, but in the meantime they’re releasing the stand-alone single … Continue reading Pinemen – Predictions
No less than ten marvellous tracks gathered up in the Mad Mackerel butterfly net this week to share with you. From the pulverising ferocity of Future of the Left and White Lung’s blistering power-pop to the fragile Mothers and sweet Americana of Radical Face. Enjoy! White Lung – Hungry Future Of The Left – If AT&T Drank Tea What Would BP Do? Mothers – Mother … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Dublin based five piece Beach are soon to unveil their newest single, the disorientating and edgy post-punk howl ‘n’ growl of Donuts. Written in a single day, vocalist Dave Barrett, when talking about the meaning behind the lyrics said “They are about a really fucked up outer body experience I had where I transcended into a spiritual dimension. For quite some time I thought I was … Continue reading Introducing >>> Beach
It has been far too long since we posted any videos. We’re righting that wrong today with an excellent collection culled from our in-box – some old(er), some new, some borrowed and some blue(s). So sit back, relax and enjoy musical films from Big Thief, Great American Canyon Band, Fidlar, M.Ward, On Dead Waves, All Them Witches, Impulsive Hearts, Bleached, Traams, and Holly Miranda. … Continue reading Video Round-Up
Rising from the smoking embers of several leading Merseyside acts, newcomers Pure Joy serve up hot, psych-heavy, filthy garage-rock candy tinged with patches of late-60s American psychedelia, buzzy Motor City riffage, and decades of pop, ranging from the pastoral sounds of Ray Davies to the vivid expansiveness of Kurt Vile and the Antipodean warmth of Tame Impala. Their debut album, Bang Flower is released on the 1st … Continue reading Introducing >>> Pure Joy
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