The reissue by Earth Recordings of Howard Enyon’s long deleted acid-folk masterpiece So What If Im Standing In Apricot Jam (the no apostrophe is deliberate) has been one of our favourite discoveries of the year. We have already posted a couple of off kilter, some might say bizarre, tracks from it and here is a third, the marvellous Happy Song. Dig in. . Continue reading Another From Howard Enyon Reissue
The e-mails have piled up like never before in our in-box, and having started to trawl through them for a few hours last night, here are a few gems we came across to make Monday more bearable – some old(er), some new, some borrowed, and some blue(s). Or something like that…check them for yourself. Let’s kick off with the brilliant Total Sunflower by Chimes is … Continue reading Start Of The Week Round Up
The latest instalment of our regular feature of songs you really should have wrapped your ears around in the past seven days…this week has a bumper crop of eight cracking new tunes. 1. Father John Misty – Bored In The USA 2. The Decemberists – Make You Better 3. The Dodos – Competition 4. Emmy The Great – Swimming Pool 5. The Districts – 4th And … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Australia’s King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have revealed the video to their album track, Satan Speeds Up. It is taken from their debut release for Heavenly Recordings, I’m In Your Mind Fuzz released on December 1, a skeleton of propulsive kraut-beat fleshed out with a liberal dose of citric sweetness, flutes and harmonicas, a ton of wah, and many lovely left turns of delicate psych. Watch … Continue reading New Video: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Satan Speeds Up
New UK/French flower punk band Bosco Rogers have unveiled the first track from debut EP GooGoo, which is out on Bleepmachine on the 1st December. Driven by a whistling riff and fuzzy guitar, The Middle is laid back, catchy-as-hell, sun-tinged psych-pop of the very best kind. Have a listen, then hum it all day long. . Continue reading MM Shorts 630: Bosco Rogers
The New Southern Electrikk draw inspiration from psychedelia, krautrock and post-punk, crafting dark, mesmerisingly beautiful melodies driven by gritty, pulsating basslines. They posted a demo cover of the Gun Club’s Mother of Earth and generated a whole shedload of interest. Hear what all the fuss was about… . Continue reading The New Southern Electrikk Cover The Gun Club
Stoned – A Psych Tribute To The Rolling Stones is a compilation of 14 covers of Stones classics by some of today’s leaders in experimental space rock including Clinic, Allah-Las, Cheval Sombre, Pure X and this fabulous version of She Smiled Sweetly by The Vacant Lots. Buy the album here. . Continue reading Vacant Lots Cover The Stones
On latest album Nest, Brooklyn based Backwords blends modern psychedelics with folk-rock, 60s-pop and a myriad other sonic surprises. On the one hand the band delivers gentle, lazy melodies that stick to the tongue and cannot be forgotten, and on the other hand there is a fury—a swooping darker underside that the band is not hesitant to embody – be it in lyrical cynicism, primal growl, or feedbacking … Continue reading New Video: Backwords – I’m Not Lying
We’ve posted Halloween mixes in the past (see here) and here are a few random Halloween related tunes, streams and videos linked by nothing other than the time of the year and the fact they’re all pretty damn good. . . . . . . . Continue reading It’s Halloween Music Time
After a too long hiatus, we’ve resurrected our best of the month mix capturing our favourite tunes from October’s posts, plus a couple of new tracks too. So more than 25 songs to discover…dive in! The September Girls – Veneer Dark-hearted pop smothered in drenched feedback . God Damn – Horus A red-hot burning molten pot of pop hooks and grinding, bludgeoning riffs and rhythms. . … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: October 2014
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