Here are a couple of tasty tracks that have caught our ears over the past couple of days. Blank Dogs have more smothered lo-fi dance fuzz for us on this new track which is from forthcoming album Land And Fixed, meanwhile The Soft Pack have slowed the pace and cranked up the tension over six simmering minutes for Gagdad, a limited edition vinyl single of … Continue reading New from The Soft Pack & Blank Dogs
The Lower Dens album Twin Hand Movement has been one of our discoveries of the year, and a record we’ve come back to time and time again. Now in support of a major new tour with Bear In Heaven they have made a new track from the album available for free – it is the rather good, velvety folk haze, of Blue & Silver. Download Lower … Continue reading New from Lower Dens
The free cover CD with the always excellent Uncut magazine is a cracker this month, focusing on Southern rock, new country and some fiery folk and featuring amongst others Caitlin Rose, The Drive-By Truckers, Dead Confederate, Surfer Blood and Kurt Wagner & Cortney Tidwell. We’ve a couple of tasters from it below. Check out Bloodkin’s epic and rather sinister The Viper and Cadillac Sky’s upbeat … Continue reading Uncut’s Cover CD
It was to the very intimate venue of Taylor John’s House in Coventry last night (stupidly without my camera, so the above is nicked for artistic merit and aesthetic pleasure and nothing else) to see Caitlin Rose and MM faves Deer Tick play the latest leg of their short UK tour. Holding barely more than 100 people and feeling more like a front room dropped … Continue reading Live: Caitlin Rose & Deer Tick
Over the last two or three weeks we’ve probably received more tracks to MM than ever before. Not that we’re complaining, especially when the quality has been really high. It does mean we’re struggling to do everything justice though and while (in a perfect MM world) many of these tracks deserve their own post, we’ve decided to round up a bunch in one go for … Continue reading New Releases Round Up
Since their formation, Solar Temple Suicides have slowly been perfecting their own brand of drugged out, spacey haze. They preach long and tall effects-laiden, psychedelic lessons culled from unabashed cosmic rock tendencies and hallucinatory walls of sound. While the obvious influences are all present and correct, Spacemen 3, The Velvet Underground and Hawkwind, the band are good enough and confident enough to plough their own … Continue reading Introducing…Solar Temple Suicides
As Nightlands, Philadelphia multi-instrumentalist David Hartley makes what we would call ‘big music’, it is warm and thunderous, and very very good. Nightlands will be releasing its debut album Forget the Mantra on Secretly Canadian in early November. Hartley has been a prolific sideman in many Philadelphia ensembles most notably, MM faves The War On Drugs. Here though, the music he creates in his bedroom … Continue reading Nightlands prepare new album Forget The Mantra
We have to confess it was Mrs Mackerel’s ears that pricked up yesterday when listening to 6 Music and Kurran & The Wolfnotes came on. Their latest single Your Four Limbs immediately sets them apart from the busy Brit-folk scene that so many are trying to inhabit these days with plaintive, resigned lyrics and a darker undertone than most can manage. A sinuous melody and … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel Recommends Kurran & The Wolfnotes
Last night I headed up the M40 with friend Matt (Matt Mackerel maybe…) to see Delta Spirit play the latest date of their short UK tour at the Hare & Hounds in Bimingham. Our first visit to said venue. En route I discovered, as a toddler, Matt had been best mates with MM idol Pete Kember (of Spacemen 3 fame, aka Spectrum) – how cool … Continue reading Live: Delta Spirit
American four-piece Filthybird have been putting the finishing touches to their brilliant new album, Songs for Other People. The follow-up to the lauded Southern Skies, Filthybird’s latest record reveals an astounding depth, effectively marrying the lilting vocal melodies of Renee Mendoza with Brian Haran’s layered guitar atmospherics and anchored by a powerfully inventive rhythm section, these songs are both soulful and dreamy, familiar and fresh. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Filthybird
