New Cowboy Builders are a Bristol based band originally from South Wales that have put out a couple of EPs in the last few years independently, and have an album coming out soon on Bath’s Killing Moon Records. The first track released from it is the intriguingly titled Top Jokes Only A Receptionist Would Get, which is a satisfyingly brutal slab of noisy, confrontational punk rock. … Continue reading MM Shorts 813: New Cowboy Builders
The new EP from Nate Leavitt & The Elevation is called Someone Send A Signal, and can best be described as ghost folk – as if the spirits of Neil Young, Wilco and Butch Walker met up late one night for a secret recording session down in Muscle Shoals. Intense, moody and blending elements of roots, Americana and rock, it is the convergence of Leavitt’s musical … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Nate Leavitt & The Elevation
Prosthesis is the fourth album in five years from Mark Ryan’s shadowy, shape-shifting “solo” band Mind Spiders. Based in Ft. Worth, TX, Mind Spiders launched pretty much immediately after his last project, the well-loved, highly-influential Marked Men went on indefinite hiatus at the beginning of 2009. Incorporating garage rock, post-punk, bedroom pop, krautrock, and tons of other obscure references throughout the eight song LP, everything blends seamlessly … Continue reading Mind Spiders Announce New Album
After four years away, Sennen returned with details of a new album, First Light, and a new track of dream-pop inspired shoegaze in the form of the ear-phone friendly Autopilot. Now the four-piece have given us Still Dark, a brisk metronomic and chorus-less single confirming their existence in the outer reaches – of both sound and music. Stream it below. twitter-follow screen_name=’madmackerel’] Continue reading More From Sennen
Richmond Fontaine have announced their forthcoming album, You Can’t Go Back If There’s Nothing To Go Back To will be the band’s final release. It will be released via Decor Records and is their tenth album in all, and their first for five long years. Songwriter, Willy Vlautin, says of the album “This record was written for all the guys we know who have hit the wall, … Continue reading Richmond Fontaine – Don’t Skip Out On Me
Echoes Of The Dreamtime is Miranda Lee Richards’ third studio album and first release in more than six years. We have already shared the atmospheric psych-folk of 7th Ray in our 100 in 100 series of posts, and the follow up First Light Of Winter is no less enthralling. Clocking in at just under seven minutes it swirls with an undercurrent of tension and menace … Continue reading Miranda Lee Richards – First Light Of Winter
The songs keep piling up in the in-box – too many to do justice to – but here are ten choice picks for you to decide… hit or miss? Claire Cronin – Sister And Devil [RIYL: Experimental folk, Karen Dalton, Jason Molina] Stranded Horse – Monde [RIYL: Orchestral folk, Loch Lemond, Horse Feathers] Heck – Good As Dead [RIYL: Noise-rock, Pulled Apart By Horses, … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 11)
Here we are again, and another fine selection of new tunes from the past week for you to savour… Matthew E. White – Cool Out (Featuring Natalie Prass) Spookyland – God’s Eyes DIIV – Is The Is Are Adia Victoria – Dead Eyes Laura Gibson – The Cause Audacity – Dirty Boy Public Access T.V. – On Location Naps – Social Skills … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
So the happy is about to be taken out of New Year work-wise next week with the return of the most pernicious individual outside of the Tory government. Apparently she’s had a baby and gotten married; apparently, I’m reliably informed, this has not withered her poisonous capacity for withering. She belongs in a Wes Anderson movie where she should meet a brutal and slightly comical … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday: 22nd January
We’re loving the sounds from this two track EP, taken from the upcoming album from Margaret Glaspy. It might not seem a very rock’n’roll name, but don’t judge a book by its cover! Guitars crunch, vocals spit, snarl and snap and it is clear that this is someone who is not to be taken lightly. These are tunes that are pragmatic, unsentimental, independent, and a damn … Continue reading MM Shorts 812: Margaret Glaspy
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