Too Slow, the recent debut long player by Tom Williams & The Boat is undoubtedly one of our albums of the year so far. It is crammed full of brilliant tunes that mix vitriol and wry observation in equal measure jumping from the venom of the wonderful Get Older to the understated ironic sarcasm of Wouldn’t Women Be Sweet. It has been getting regular plays … Continue reading New Single From Tom Williams & The Boat
We’ve been fans of the ramshackle folk and lo-fi psychedelia of Woods since Songs of Shame back in 2009. On 14th June they will be releasing Sun & Shades on Woodsist. Until then, you can tickle your ears with a listen to the sinuous pastoral folk and falsetto of Pushing Onlys from the album. a Continue reading New from Woods
Treetop Flyers have just been crowned winners of the Glastonbury Emerging Talent contest, winning themselves a slot on the main-stage at this year’s event. Beating off competition from a host of excellent, unsigned acts (picked by a broad selection of UK bloggers over the last few months) the London quintet impressed the judges – including Michael and Emily Eavis – enough to bag themselves the … Continue reading Treetop Flyers Are Glastonbury Bound
We were delighted to discover Sunderbans have a new EP, Wolf Heart due out today. The release succeeds the band’s feature on Huw Stevens’ Music Sounds Better With Huw VOL 2 compilation last autumn, and their brilliant debut 7″ single We Only Can Because We Care released by Young and Lost. Inspired partly by the descent to insanity induced by the days and nights spent locked … Continue reading Sunderbans Announce New EP
Seems like there is a Philadelphia theme happening by chance today…following our Work Drugs post earlier comes the intriguingly titled The Shortest Man On Earth, being the latest release from Sweet Lights. It retains the slightly retro feel of the recent self-titled album, and is another beautifully judged excursion into the world of classic sunshine and psych rock – imagine if Spiritualized played Americana with … Continue reading New Single from Sweet Lights
Soulful, country rockers Ha Ha Tonka release their new album Death Of A Decade on 5th April via Bloodshot Records. To be honest, we’d never really clicked with the band before now. However, lead track Usual Suspects has changed all that! So much so, that while we look forward to the new record, we’re going to be going back to the old stuff and listening … Continue reading Ha Ha Tonka To Release Death Of A Decade
We posted the excellent single release Deadbeat by Brooklyn’s Hunters back in early February. A song we described as “The Vaselines making music with The Ruts on a chaotic acid binge.” Now we have a track from their self-titled, name your price EP, which is available here on Bandcamp. Visceral, tribal, and anthemic. Start your weekend with a bang! Download Hunters – Brat Mouth mp3 … Continue reading More from Hunters
Another bonanza month. Another round up of the very best tracks we posted in March. Another selection of new tunes to get your teeth into too. So without further ado… Download White Denim – Drug mp3 (from D) First taste of rockers new album. Bodes well. Very well. Download The Everymen – Ballad Of Sarin mp3 (from Hello, Nice Evening. We Are The Everymen) Cocksure but not … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: March
Here is Rotten To The Core from the Builders & The Butchers latest excellent effort, Dead Reckoning. It is the song that is, to us here at MM at least, the rollicking, hollering centrepiece of the record. The song that calls to mind the blood and thunder preachers in dusty pulpits, the hellfires and the brimstone, and the intense fury of both the righteous and … Continue reading More from the Builders & The Butchers
Rowdy London five-piece The Amusements have released debut digital single The Trip – with loud-as-fuck guitars punctuated with a catchy keyboard riff you can strut to – the track packs a crippling punch to the senses in its short 1.56 running time. The tune is firmly rooted in its influences from 60s-psych garage to early 80s hardcore, with singer Luke Barshack’s erratic, growling vocals recalling … Continue reading Introducing…The Amusements
