The High Dials hail from Canada and have a sound that immediately calls to mind the jangly psychedelics and country rock of the late 60s. New album (their fourth) is called Anthems For Doomed Youth and is out on November 8th. It is full of soaring vocal harmonies, orchestral flourishes and rousing choruses and while influences are unashamedly worn on sleeves, there is enough originality … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The High Dials
You’ve got to choose your battles. Some things (and people) just ain’t worth the effort; sometimes it pays to play the long game; and at other times, shoot from the hip first, ask questions later (not recommended as a blanket approach though …) It’s been a tiring week, at the hands of the sprats plus one. The dog and I are still recovering. However, an … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday
It’s Friday, Mrs M’s musings are still to come, and a Halloween playlist for the weekend too, but for now, here is a quick playlist/round-up of those songs we’ve gathered up recently, but not had/found enough time to post about properly… First up Leopold & His Fiction, we’ve seen this track described as the Doors meet Wolfmother… Download Leopold & His Fiction – Golden Friends … Continue reading Friday Round-Up
We received this today – a video for someone new to us, Ivan Ink ‘N” Isa. The song, Standing on a Hill is from an EP collaboration between Ivan Ink & Pen with Isabella Summers (the ‘Machine’ part of Florence + The Machine). Both the EP and project are called Ivan Ink ‘N’ Isa, and the EP is due for release in January. The song … Continue reading Ivan Ink ‘N’ Isa – New Video
We’ve been a bit slow getting round to this post about Wing Commander, having been listening to these songs from their EP From 93 Onwards for a while now. The tracks themselves are hard to define, melding what could almost be described as vast sonic soundscapes with a bit of dubstep and underpinning it with a folkish mentality to create something that is naggingly familiar … Continue reading Introducing…Wing Commander
The latest free monthly mix from Insound is now available. It is up for a limited time and features 15 tracks themed around CMJ artists including Salem, FLIGHT, Young Prisms, DOM and more. A couple of our favourite tracks are below, and you can get the whole thing for free here. Enjoy. Download Frankie Rose & The Outs – Candy mp3 Download Weekend – End … Continue reading Latest Insound Digital Mixtape
Yesterday Partisan Records released the latest full-length effort from Paleo entitled A View Of The Sky, available in CD, LP, Ltd. Edition Color Vinyl and Digital Download formats. Paleo has been traveling the country for the last 6 years. Booking his own shows, he has been playing roughly 150 dates a year while living out of his car and staying with people kind enough to share … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Paleo
Freakout is the new single and taster track from the forthcoming Tapes ‘n Tapes album Outside, which is released on 11th January. It is out on their own label, Ibid Records. And it is a crackerjack of a new song. Living up to its title, it is a frenetic romp that is catchier than just about anything we’ve heard so far this month. Certainly the … Continue reading New from Tapes ‘n Tapes
David Gergen takes acoustic indie rock places it rarely goes, especially on one record. Bending ambience on Seven Miles to Sunset, throbbing electronics on Ore De Electro, along with bluesy slide guitar on The Streets I’m Walking, there’s a taste of everything on Gergen’s latest solo release (his fourth), The Nearer it Was…The Farther It Became. His voice, though consistently deep and resonant evokes the … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…David Gergen
We’ve already posted one superb Ramones cover recently (by Port O’Brien), but there is always room for another. And it might not be quite the usual MM fare either. After releasing two successful indie hiphop records and becoming one of the bigger names in the LA underground hiphop scene, Lexicon became frustrated. At first they were content in simply being a part of the scene … Continue reading Introducing…Lexicon
