Cornish three-piece Lost Dawn take a starting point of raw garage-rock and infuse it with voodoo psychedelia, blues, 60s-70s classic rock influences and a sparkle of heavy Glam rock swag. The end results can be heard on latest single Count On Me, taken from their forthcoming self-titled debut album released on the 13th April. Watch it / stream it here. . . Continue reading MM Shorts 661: Lost Dawn
2:54’s cover of a Doors classic, No Ages’s cover of a Black Flag classic and the welcome return of Other Lives heads our biggest ever weekly round up of the songs you really should have found some time to listen to already. But if not, here they are in one neat package for you. 1. 2:54 – Take It As It Comes (Doors cover) 2. WATERS … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Happyness, who featured in our Best of 2014 lists, announced in January that they have signed to Moshi Moshi Records for the UK. Now their first single proper of 2015 has been named as the A Whole New Shape, and is set for release on March 30th. It’s taken from the re-release of their debut album Weird Little Birthday which includes this as one of four extra bonus … Continue reading New Single From Happyness
While this may have been out since last summer, we have just gambled our remaining e-music credits on it, and discovered a marvellous album of experimental electro tinged, acoustic weirdness and freaked out psych-folk by a collective known as Silver Servants. Our attention was first grabbed by their version of the hymn Jerusalem, but cemented by the brilliant A Crow Will Remember Your Face, a maelovent, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Silver Servants
A way back in the summer of 2011 we featured the pounding psych-rock of The Lucid Dream on MM, and they are shortly to release their self-titled sophomore record. Watch the video for one of the standout tracks, Cold Killer, which channels the influence of German geniuses Can and Neu. The album is released on the 30th March via Holy Are You for CD and digital, … Continue reading New Video: The Lucid Dream – Cold Killer
Blossoms will release their psych-pop infused new single Cut Me And I’ll Bleed on the 2nd March through Skeleton Key Records. A shimmering, swaggering, tripped out groove anchors the song and places it firmly in the world of the Doors, the Bunnymen and The Coral – in our book, that’s not a bad place to be at all. Order a signed copy of the 7″ … Continue reading Blossoms – Cut Me And I’ll Bleed Single
The warped and rather wonderful Newfoundland’s new EP Good News Is Too True is out now. With sonic nods to the Skygreen Leopards, Vetiver and Bob Dylan the EP’s sounds and textures twist and turn around you before spiralling off into a dizzying parade. Have a listen to Eserkiel. Buy from Bandcamp here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 659: Newfoundland
A veritable plethora of tunes to pick through this week – tunes that, by rights, you should already have been spinning… 1. Lower Dens – To Die In L.A. 2. Isobel Campbell – How Deep Is Your Love (Bee Gees cover) 3. Akron/Family – Everyone Is Guilty 4. Los Angeles Police Department – Insecurity 5. Gal Pals – Here’s To The Gals 6. Rye Pines … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Back in 2013, seeing Mackenzie Scott, otherwise known as Torres perform in the back room of a tiny bar at SXSW was a genuine, spine-tingling delight. Now, after the success of the fractured, disconnected Americana of her self-titled debut album of the same year, she is back with a new record, Sprinter, which will be out on Partisan Records in May. Treading a surefooted path between the … Continue reading Torres Announces New Album Sprinter
Psych-rock three piece False-Heads have a blistering new EP of huge riffs and garage fuzztones, Wear and Tear, released March 23rd on Hi4Head Records. Their lead single, Wrap Up opens this four track release in classic ‘quiet-loud’ manner, with a pounding rhythm section backing the vocals, bringing to mind ferocious London duo Slaves, before crashing into a doom laden, Sabbath-worthy guitar chorus. Stream it below. . Continue reading Introducing >>> False-Heads
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