Clash The Truth is the title of the Beach Fossil’s forthcoming long player, due on Captured Tracks in February. The much anticipated first taste comes with Careless – all sinewy jangle bouncing along on the back of hurtling, punk-ish drums. Download below. Pre-order the from Insound here. Continue reading New From Beach Fossils
Even though Christmas is looming and the deluge of end-of-year best of lists are starting to appear on the horizon, November still gave us plenty of cracking new tunes to enjoy. Here are our pick of the best of the downloads from November’s posts, together with a few newbies to tickle the earbuds too. Dive in. Download Crushed Out – Push Down & Twist mp3 (from Want … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: November 2012
Shortlist and winner announced 3rd January 2013 The Blog Sound Poll was first published in 2011. The concept of the poll wasn’t to criticise the established BBC Sound of list, but simply an experiment to see if UK music bloggers could come up with its own list of emerging artists that was more representative of their community and give the artists that were nominated some extra … Continue reading The Blog Sound Of 2013: Long List Announced
We first became aware of the retro-garage punk of Plateaus via their excellently titled Beach Coma track and subsequent 7″ releases on the Art Fag and HoZac labels. They model their sound after the production techniques of Spector, Meek and Wilson, but employ a modern punk edge utilising catchy hooks and primal, raw energy. Thick, distorted guitars and layers of blown-out vocals swim in a … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Plateaus
With Christmas and New Year fast approaching the excellent SEXBEAT label have compiled this free mix of songs from each band they’ve released each year. The download includes tracks from Virals, Fear Of Men, Virginia Wing, White Fence, Sharm El Shakes and Eagulls. Click below to stream and download. Or just click here for the zip file of all six tracks. Continue reading Free SEXBEAT Records Sampler 2012
Record label Post-Consumer is making its entire catalog (or catalogue if you’re in the UK) available throughout December on a name-your-price basis via Bandcamp. There is no minimum payment, and releases include the excellent fractured pop fairytales and melancholia of The Hand To Man Band and their album You Are Always On Our Minds (get it here), the acid-folk of Death Songs self-titled EP (get … Continue reading Post-Consumer Records Offer “Name-Your-Price” December
We posted about Kam Kama right at the beginning of the year, enthusing about their sinewy mix of guitars and queasy vocals and they have returned with a new 7″ single Passer By / Joseph Stride, which sees a release on the 11th December. A new drummer provides a slightly different, leaner sound although the same economical, almost sparse songcraft remains. Take a listen to the … Continue reading MM Shorts 270: New Single From Kam Kama
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