Last month, with what seems very little fanfare, longstanding MM faves The Cave Singers released a new collection of Demos & B-Sides via Bandcamp. To our shame we also noticed they’d released a new EP at the tail end of 2019 too. So better late than never here is the backwoods campfire singalong of At The Rig and the yearning country of Katydid from the Demos … Continue reading The Cave Singers – Demos & B-Sides
Last month, Phoebe Bridgers confirmed details of her second solo album, Punisher, to be released via Dead Oceans on the 19th June. She has shared another song from the album. Originally entitled ICU the song’s spelling has been changed to I See You for its release on digital platforms – for fairly obvious reasons. She says of the song, “It’s about my breakup with my … Continue reading Phoebe Bridgers – I See You
Nottingham trio Attraktors have a rich pedigree comprised of former members of Julian Cope’s band, Six By Seven, Bivouac, The Selector and The Nectarine No. 9, who together make a rather fetching noise amalgamating the best bits of krautrock, kosmische, spacerock, artrock and synthpop into a single idealised whole. Travelling a gamut from proto-punk to moments of melancholy whimsy, the record remains resolutely anchored within its … Continue reading Introducing >>> Attraktors
Mrs. Piss is an excellently named new collaboration between Chelsea Wolfe and Jess Gowrie. Drawing on their collective rock, metal, and industrial influences, the project began while the two were touring around together during Wolfe’s Hiss Spun album in 2017. They’ve announced details of their debut, Self-Surgery, which sees its release on the 29th May on Sargent House, and have shared two of its singles, … Continue reading Introducing >>> Mrs. Piss
Leeds indie stalwarts the Wind-up Birds have released their new album Summer Haunts today (order from Bandcamp here). It is another excellent collection of contagious, observational and wilfully unpredictable songs packed with melody, wry, but often dark, humour and scalpel sharp lyrics. Unmistakably northern in the same way as The Fall or Cabbage or Pulp, The band have been ploughing their furrow for well over … Continue reading Wind-up Birds – Summer Haunts
Loving this from Golf Alpha Bravo – the solo project of Los Angeles-based Australian singer and guitarist Gab Winterfield of Jagwar Ma fame. The languid guitar licks and surf inspired groove of Stuck Being Me is the latest track from his debut album The Sundog LP, due out on the 12th June via his own Treasured Recordings label. Its gorgeous, 70s campfire feel is perfectly matched by … Continue reading New Video: Golf Alpha Bravo – Stuck Being Me
Heavy Breathing the new EP from Malmö quartet Arre! Arre! will get a release on the 14th August on vinyl & digitally via Punk Slime Recordings. It is the follow up to last year’s excellent Tell Me All About Them long player. The band have already shared Me And My Fat Ass Friends from the EP, and now they’ve given us Ravenous Girl for our, and your, … Continue reading Arre! Arre! Share Ravenous Girl
Brooklyn-based rockers Cup have just released their new album – the satisfyingly hard and heavy-hitting Nothing Could Be Wrong, out through Aagoo Records. With a gritty sound that draws from psych rock, garage, some surf licks and punk, imagine something a bit like Black Angels meets Oh Sees meets The Cramps, then add some early desert Queens Of The Stone Age, with even a little Gary … Continue reading Cup – Nothing Could Be Wrong
Anarchic Canadian music collective Crack Cloud will release their debut album Pain Olympics on the 17th July. The band have also shared an incendiary video for the record’s lead single Ouster Stew, a jittery slice of punk funk that nods to the Talking Heads and James Chance. Catch them on tour Nov 17th | London – EARTH Nov 19th | Leeds – Brudenell … Continue reading Crack Cloud – Ouster Stew
The Imbeciles are new to us, but we’re loving the 73 second gem that is One Hand Tommy, and the accompanying surreal animated video featuring a child trapped in a dystopian landscape of nuclear annihilation with only a giant killer snake for company. It comes from the band’s self-titled debut album – thirteen sub-two minute imploding songs of delirious punk with blood curdling vocals, disarticulated fretwork … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Imbeciles
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