I have to confess our interest in this album was piqued by a very favourable review in this month’s Uncut magazine, which, by pure coincidence, was followed by us getting a copy of the record in our in-box via Reviewshine. Although he has been around a good while and had songs covered by such luminaries as Levon Helm and Irma Thomas, this is his first … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Kevin Gordon
Here are the best of our January posts together with a few tasty new tracks. All in all nearly forty great tunes compiled and neatly presented in one lovely mix. As always, don’t forget to check out all our previous monthly mixes listed in the sidebar on the left. Download Night Genes – Soaring Through The Chromosomes mp3 (from Like The Blood) Infectiously catchy, military folk stomp. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: January 2012
We have been meaning to post this up for a little while and not sure why we haven’t managed it before now. The Adultery Brothers first featured on MM back in May last year with a (now disappeared) free Bandcamp demo release called Let Me Think. They have now released an ‘official’ self-titled debut album which benefits hugely from being professionally produced. Thankfully, they have … Continue reading Debut Album From The Adultery Brothers
Eux Autres write smart, infectious garage-pop imbued with indie jangle, a bit of cool French pop and gorgeous boy/girl vocals. In fact, just close your eyes and imagine if you will, the Field Mice meeting Black Flag at a Françoise Hardy show. The songs they’d be humming together on the drive home might sound something like Eux Autres. Although they have been around since 2003, we … Continue reading New EP From Eux Autres
Shrouded Strangers have just leapt to the top of our New Discoveries Most Anticipated List (if we actually had one that is), but no matter, this is the video to skuzzy slacker anthem Featherbed, a glorious amalgam of surf guitars, krautrock rhythms and fuzzed up hillbilly stomp. Just brilliant. It comes from new album Forever Lost which is described as a collection of disembodied pop … Continue reading MM Shorts 86: Shrouded Strangers Video
The wonderful Cave Singers have just completed an outstanding session for Daytrotter offering up versions of Swim Club, Haller Lake, Clever Creatures and the brilliant Black Leaf. Signing up to get this, and many other sessions (recently including Laura Marling, Wilco, Marnie Stern and The Parson Red Heads) costs just $2 per month which even in these troubled times is a ridiculously good deal – if … Continue reading The Cave Singers @ Daytrotter
Oregon duo Vacant Fever have a new release, Kill Kill Kill out on March 6th. We posted about the band last year and they went on to make a couple of our guest Top Tens at the end of the year so we were excited to learn of a new five track EP. They hate genres and being pigeon-holed and so we’ll avoid going down … Continue reading New Single From Vacant Fever
Mike Doughty releases his new album Yes And Also Yes on February 13th. Previously front man of Soul Coughing, he has also written a brutally honest and unflinching autobiography that catalogues the utterly dysfunctional nature of his band and his own descent into full-on drug addiction. The album is his fourth as a solo artist and it is immediately apparent that the man’s scalpel sharp … Continue reading New Solo Album From Mike Doughty
As is often their wont, Mojo magazine have produced another fine cover disc this month, with a tribute to Leonard Cohen’s masterpiece of a debut The Songs Of Leonard Cohen plus a ‘bonus’ of five extra classic tracks from his back catalogue. The array of artists is mightily impressive from acclaimed new soul artist Michael Kiwanuka to Cass McCombs, Field Music and J Tillman recording … Continue reading The Songs Of Leonard Cohen Covered For Mojo
Young Prisms are a band from San Francisco who deliver a beguiling mix of dreamy psychedelia over a fuzz of shoegazey guitars and reverb. Floating In Blue is the first taste from new album In Between. Download Young Prisms – Floating In Blue mp3 (from In Between) Continue reading MM Shorts 84: Young Prisms
