We first became aware of Meg Baird as co-founder of the mysterious psych-folk band Espers who released three excellent studio albums. She then went on to form the moody and thunderous Heron Oblivion and has also found time to release two solo records of her own and now has a new solo album Don’t Weigh Down The Light due for release on the 22nd June … Continue reading Meg Baird – Don’t Weigh Down The Light
Nine new, and excellent, songs from the past seven days neatly packaged for your listening pleasure. 1. Jeffrey Lewis – Train Song 2. The Sandwitches – Our Toast 3. Ultimate Painting – Break The Chain 4. John Vanderslice – Midnight Blue 5. Destroyer – Dream Lover 6. Heather Woods Broderick – Wyoming 7. DRINKS – Hermits On Holiday 8. Spoon – TV Set (Cramps cover) … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Stockholm trio Magic Potion trade in warped out, slacker pop of the best kind, recorded on an old reel-to-reel and produced by the band itself. Their debut EP Melt is due on 1st June, via Beech Coma. Preceding the EP is lead single Booored which received much praise when it premiered earlier this month, and it’s now also gotten the video treatment in the form a … Continue reading New Video: Magic Potion – Booored
Steady Sun, the five-piece psychedelic outfit who have featured a number of times on MM, has returned with their first single in two years, Lover Knows. It is taken from forthcoming album Flora and kicks off as a gently pastoral excursion into the dreamier end of the psych-spectrum. Midway through it flexes its muscles briefly before settling back down to meander to a sweetly hazy conclusion. Groovy stuff, … Continue reading MM Shorts 713: Steady Sun
We were alerted by a much trusted friend in the PR world about a southern-psych band from Louisville performing under the name of Old Baby. He mentioned that we’d undoubtedly heard of some of the member’s other bands, thought they’d rather we not know who they are. So, all we can tell you is: yes, Old Baby is from Louisville. Yes, Old Baby is filled with … Continue reading Introducing >>> Old Baby
Brooklyn-based psychedelic trio Sunflower Bean’s new single I Hear Voices will be released on Fat Possum on the 24th July. They have taken their garage-rock and psych sounds, spiced them up with some sweetly melodic riffs and smothered it all in hazy vocals. It is a more than worthy follow up to their self-released debut EP, Show Me Your Seven Secrets, at the end of 2014 … Continue reading New Single From Sunflower Bean
Back in 2013, my last trip to SXSW, I wandered into a venue to see Night Beds and exited having been completely transfixed by singer Mackenzie Scott (aka Torres) and her band. From then on tracks like Honey and Waterfall became much loved secret treasures – intense and intimate, they were songs I didn’t want to share, but rather to immerse myself in as the … Continue reading MM’s 5:1 Interview No 17: Torres
Any band able to describe their sound as “like wandering alone in a desolate circus at night with the impending doom of being hunted by psychopathic clowns“, gets our ears. This then is Melt Dunes, almost eight minutes of malevolent, eerie, tortured psychedelia shot through with a garage savagery that makes Epicaricacy a compelling listen. Try it here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 711: Melt Dunes
Our weekly round up for you of some of the best songs shared in the past seven days… 1. Barna Howard – Bitter Side Of Blue 2. Theo Verney – Brain Disease 3. Spray Paint – Country Singer 4. The Wooden Sky – Our Hearts Were Young 5. Jacco Gardner – Find Yourself 6. White Reaper – I Don’t Think She Cares 7. Telegram – … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Phonecalls In The Bath is the new single from Deadline Shakes, out on the 28th June via Flowers In The Dustbin records. It starts as sweetly yearning, meandering indie-folk before shaking off the shackles half way through and galloping into country-tinged power-pop territory with infectious harmonies that nod to Phil Spector and the Beach Boys. Pretty sure you won’t hear anything more charming or smarter today…Pre-order via Bandcamp here. … Continue reading New Single From The Deadline Shakes
The Mad Mackerel 