We have a hopelessly inadequate amount of time to listen to all the new music we receive, even after we automatically filter out the remixes, electro-bangers, and crappy dance tunes we get sent. So here is a hasty pick and mix selection for you of some of the best of recent weeks – just dive in… Rainy Sundays comes from a Tomkins Square reissue … Continue reading Mega Round-up Time
We’ve already shared Dark Horse the first track from America, the upcoming solo album from Howling Bells singer-songwriter Juanita Stein (out 28th July via Nude). Now we have I’ll Cry, a song of which she says, “It is a musical ode to the all American greats I took my cues from as a budding songwriter. Roy Orbison, Patsy Cline and the work of Phil Spector, all of … Continue reading Another From Juanita Stein
Taking influences from house music to post-punk, West African music, Tropicália, gamelan and more, the songs on Psymon Spine’s eclectic new album You Are Coming To My Birthday partner fuzzy synths with distorted bass lines, and lush vocal harmonies coupled with flowing string arrangements. It is giddy, euphoric stuff – watch the video for the propulsive, guitar driven Experience Machine and stream another of the album’s standout … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Psymon Spine
The city of Copenhagen is the home of Future War Bride, who’ve announced their arrival with their debut single Gloves Off set for release on June 24th. It is a synth led, driving psych-pop track with an ejector button chorus and you can stream it below. Continue reading MM Shorts 955: Future War Bride
Lost Balloons are Jeff Burke (Radioactivity, Marked Men) and Yusuke Okada (of Japan’s Suspicious Beasts) and together they make summery, pastoral psych-pop that offers more than a nod to the classic days of hippiedom and flower power.. Listen to the sunny jangle of Paint, which is taken from their upcoming second album, titled appropriately enough Hey Summer. Continue reading MM Shorts 954: Lost Balloons
She Keeps Bees have dropped a new track, the grungy, heavy-slow strum of Head Of Steak, which takes on Donald Trump’s self-interest and climate change denial. “The lyrics are quite explicit, which is fitting because I find the current administration to be completely vulgar.” says Jessica Larrabee. All profit from the first year of sales will be donated to organisation Earth Justice. The song is … Continue reading She Keeps Bees – Head Of Steak
Woozy psych-poppers Happyness have shared another track from their recently released album Write In. Uptrend / Style Raids is described as “A song mainly about not knowing how to dress. A few years ago we spent a whole day walking around a big sprawling flea market in Paris determined to find something vaguely musical. Eventually as it was getting dark we managed to find an … Continue reading Happyness – Uptrend / Style Raids
Following on from Medicine, the first track from Quiet Hollers’ forthcoming new album Amen Breaks, we now have the reflective St. Valentine’s Boys for your undoubted listening pleasure. Watch the video below which features lead singer Shadwick Wilde breaking into some mean calisthenics and DIY dance moves, lending to the whimsical nature of the video. He describes the narrator in the song, a type of enforcer working for a … Continue reading More From Quiet Hollers
For the first time in four years much loved MM faves Deer Tick have announced the September 15 release of a long-awaited new album…actually, two. Never a group to stand by conventional protocol, the Providence, RI quartet will release two separate albums of original material, Deer Tick Vol. 1 and Deer Tick Vol. 2. Deer Tick Vol. 1 showcases the folk-driven, roots/rock style with just the … Continue reading The Return Of Deer Tick
Later today I will go to the Polling Station to cast my vote. After the EU Referendum and the Trump debacle I go pretty much without hope or expectation but more in despair and defiance and the grim knowledge we probably have five more years of selfish, small-minded, jingoistic bullshit to lap up whilst services close, people get poorer and those that voted for Brexit … Continue reading Eat The Evidence – Tories Go To Waitrose
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