The dark, slightly twisted, disfigured pop of David West aka Rat Columns is due to resurface soon with a new album titled Sceptre Hole. it is due out in a couple of months on San Francisco’s ever reliable SmartGuy Records. We have a couple of truly excellent tracks for you to listen to in the shape of the pleasing indie rumble of Frozen Over and the noisier, more discordant … Continue reading New Album From Rat Columns
The Sleeper’s Heart is the latest track from the (still) wonderfully named Oyster Murders. This time it is an excursion into the realms of top-notch dream pop, lyrically dark, and so the band say, probably influenced subconsciously by repeated listening to Bowie’s trilogy of Berlin albums. Sounds good to us in every way! Download it here. a Continue reading New Track From The Oyster Murders
Literate, histroy-loving, raucous New York punks, Titus Andronicus are probably in the top five bands we’d like to see live, having inexplicably foregone the opportunity when we were at SxSW in 2009. They have just made this new track available for your listening pleasure, the typically lengthily named Upon Viewing Oregon’s Landscape With the Flood of Detritus. It comes from a new split single with recent … Continue reading Free Mixtape From Titus Andronicus
Got myself in a bit of a curry on Friday, a little bit jaded on Saturday, and bit of a day of indulgence today, it being Mothering Sunday and all that. It’s been a funny old week. Big Sair and I laughed our way around Southampton in an attempt to locate Laura Marling. Unfortunately, we managed to miss Timber Timbre in support as I realised … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday – on Sunday (18th March)
We’ve posted a couple of times from the Sick Figures excellent album Two Ghosts released back in the autumn of 2011, and they have now made another track available for free. This is the morbidly portentous Manor Song, a slow, swirling velvet fog of a tune. a Continue reading MM Shorts 121: More From Sick Figures
Insound, providers of a regular free monthly mix that we often feature, have made available an additional free sampler based around some of the releases featured in their vinyl newsletter. The eleven song mix includes tracks from Bear in Heaven, Bishop Morocco, Canyons, Disappears, Secret Music, THEEsatisfaction and White Hills. Check a couple of our favourites below or just grab the whole thing here for the price of … Continue reading Free Insound Vinyl News Mixtape
Violas are a Welsh band with a lovely, easy-going indie sound. They have a debut three track EP out now titled Hwylio/Sailing and have made the sweetly uplifting Sea Shells from it available for free download. Buy the single from label Owlet Music here. Download Violas – Sea Shell mp3 Continue reading MM Shorts 120: Violas
And so it was to Birmingham and the HMV Institute to see the rescheduled, and still hotly anticipated, Felice Brothers gig with the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn as support replacing the previously scheduled AA Bondy. We parked in a back street, bathed in the blue neon of a tired looking Adult shop with its tatty handwritten sign, “No drugs. No hats.“. Headed off, Popper, Barry-Sean, Analyse this … Continue reading Live Review: The Felice Brothers / Craig Finn
Ten million years and eight minutes, the long-awaited follow-up to Caltrop’s much-loved 2008 debut full-length World Class, finds North Carolina’s titans of Southern psych-rock in rarefied form. Simultaneously crushing and uplifting, immerse yourself in the seven and a half minute trip of Blessed. The album is out on April 3rd via Holiday for Quince Records. Download Caltrop – Blessed mp3 (from Ten million years and eight minutes) Continue reading MM Shorts 118: Caltrop
We’re loving Hate Smile, the advance single from the upcoming Is/Is full length. It is a song that is swathed in moody magnificence as distorted guitars and pounding percussion battle for supremacy in a maelstrom of compelling noise. Shoegaze is too easy a term for this bleakly bitter offering that is as heavy and menacing as it is beautiful. Download Is/Is – Hate Smile mp3 … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Is/Is
