Like moonshine made from intrusive pop decadence and dark distant echoes from space, Stockholm’s Presolar Sands draw their influences from bands like The Stooges, Spacemen 3, Asteroid #4, to name a few. The band have released a digital single called Voodoo Ritual, on the newly started label Lazy Octopus. It is six minutes of pulsating psych-groove – get your freak on… . Continue reading MM Shorts 702: The Presolar Sands
Another day, another week, another collection of ten excellent tunes from the past seven days collected for your listening pleasure and gratification. 1. Torres – Cowboy Guilt 2. Creepoid – Dried Out 3. Loop – Precession 4. Sweet Spirit & Britt Daniel – Have Mercy 5. Left Lane Cruiser – Tres Borrachos 6. Little Wings – Where 7. Thee Oh Sees – Withered Hand 8. … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Until recently, we were unaware of the lo-fi bedroom charms of Elvis Depressedly, that was until we heard the brilliant Bruises (Amethyst) (taken from forthcoming long player New Alhambra), which has become a firm fave here at MM Towers. The duo have now released a beautiful new video for latest single, and album opener, Thou Shalt Not Murder. It showcases perfectly their brightly melancholic noise-pop inspired by heroes … Continue reading New Video: Elvis Depressedly – Thou Shalt Not Murder
You know the drill. Our weekly gathering of new songs released this week. 1. Best Coast – Feeling OK 2. Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Gloria 3. Rose Windows – Strip Mall Babylon 4. Wolf Alice – Bros 5. Susanna – Who By Fire (Leonard Cohen cover) 6. Spray Paint – Day Of The Rope 7. Iron & Wine / Ben Bridwell – Bulletproof Soul (Sade … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
U.S. Girls (aka Meghan Remy) returns with her 4AD debut of more outsider, weirdo pop full of experimental leanings and some pretty uncompromising lyrics. None more so than on the pulsing Damn That Valley, telling the story of a soldier’s widow’s perspective on the pointlessness and crushing loss of war. Watch it here. Continue reading U.S. Girls – Damn That Valley
We have on a couple of occasions, via Mrs Mackerel’s friend Jenny Wren, been fortunate to meet St Etienne’s Sarah Cracknell who in local parlance “lives round our way”. So when we found she is about to release her second solo album Red Kite, a mere eighteen years after her first, Lipslice, and that it was a love letter to nature and the formative music of youth, … Continue reading Sarah Cracknell – Red Kite
Despite being around since 2003, Minneapolis residents, and self proclaimed bald-headed freaks, The Blind Shake are new to us. Latest release, a mini LP titled Fly Right saw the light of day this week and is a prime slab of sweaty garage rock, with spaghetti-western twang and surf punk twinges thrown in for good measure. Thankfully avoiding the trap of sacrificing the melodies for raw … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… The Blind Shake
Regular as clockwork, here is our end-of-week catch-up of some of the best tunes released over the past seven days. Enjoy. 1. Sharon Van Etten – I Don’t Want To Let You Down 2. The Telescopes – I Wanna Be Your Dog (Stooges cover) 3. White Reaper – Make Me Wanna Die 4. Stealing Sheep – Greed 5. Holydrug Couple – Baby I’m Going Away … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
A perfect companion to our earlier post about Strange Lot, Perth, Australia’s The Lammas Tide’s unique brand of psych-folk-rock draws influence from bands such as Jethro Tull, Traffic, and Jefferson Airplane, combining bluesy inflections and folk sensibilities with classic psychedelia. Bethnal Green will be released on the 1st May on Pavement Records and sounds like a long lost classic from the sixties with its combination of dancing fiddle, … Continue reading The Lammas Tide – Bethnal Green
Strange Lot have a sound that is pitched somewhere between the 60s rock of the Yardbirds and the modern psych of Tame Impala and highly addictive it is too. Their excellent surf-tinged new single Into The Night zips along in a groovy haze of guitars and heavy percussion and can be downloaded below. Debut album Another Mind will be out in May. . Continue reading MM Shorts 693: Strange Lot
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