Stockholm based quartet Marble Mammoth released their debut EP of fuzzed up, psych rock last year. They’re following it up with another gem of catchy, dreamlike freak rock with Matte Black Shades. Check it out below, complete with crazy sax and some rumbling crickets! Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Marble Mammoth
Way back in the summer of 2015 we posted a couple of tracks of riff-heavy garage rock by The Legal Immigrants, and now three years later we have a new single for you that once again mainlines a shot of adrenaline straight to the system. Like the bastard son of the Eagles of Death Metal and Johnny Cash, Hang On is a freight train rolling … Continue reading The Legal Immigrants – Hang On
A Brooklyn DIY super group of sorts, Public Practice combines members of freshly-dead punk project WALL and local pop band Beverly. Their debut EP Distance is a Mirror, is a confident, juried testimony of love steeped in dark optimism. Dry, dead pan vocals chant over skittish guitar and danceable 70s grooves—songs snapping like rubber bands—see-sawing between post-punk and its insomniac twin sister disco. Check out Foundation … Continue reading Public Practice – Distance Is A Mirror EP
The Good, The Bad & The Queen – Merrie Land Protomartyr – Forbidden (Preoccupations cover) The C.I.A. – Pleasure Seeker Deerhunter – Death In Midsummer Cass McCombs – Sleeping Volcanoes Meat Wave – That’s Alright Spielbergs – 4AM Dolly Dream – The Way To Heaven Wand – Here Come The Warm Jets (Brian Eno cover) Pat Thomas – What Is Coming … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Hanya are a Brighton two-piece whose lush layering and deep, sonic textures defy their simple set up. Recalling Angel Olsen or PJ Harvey, Heather Sheret’s vocals can go from grit to honey, weaving extra layers and emotion into the band’s wall of sound. Her guitar like a one-person My Bloody Valentine – crunching riffs that recall early Black Keys and all backed by Jack Watkin’s … Continue reading Introducing >>> Hanya
Start All Over Again is the debut album by Seattle’s Matt Berry under the pseudonym The Berries. It is a study of the mythology of freedom – a modern country-rock record made up of songs of love and hate, songs under the spell of Neil Young and Townes Van Zandt, and songs carved out of the disappointment of a morose Seattle winter. We already shared Junkyard Dog earlier … Continue reading The Berries Release Start All Over Again
The wonderful David Cronenberg’s Wife (aka DCW) are back with a new EP, The Octoberman Sequence, which is due out via Blang Records tomorrow (digitally) and on the 2nd November on limited 12″ vinyl. Key players in the UK’s antifolk scene in the late 2000s, we loved them for their black humour, sense of the macabre and twisted, often enjoyably bitter lyrics. Theirs was a … Continue reading The Return Of David Cronenberg’s Wife
Venom & Faith is the new album from Nashville based sister duo Larkin Poe, to be released on the 9th November. The Atlanta-born sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell are descendants of celebrated US writer Edgar Allen Poe and have an appropriately gothic feel to their country blues churn and holler. Even the record’s title, taken from a lyric from album track Honey Honey, is intended to conjure … Continue reading Larkin Poe – Bleach Blonde Bottle Blues
Fiercely independent Croydon-based duo Frauds are set to release their brand new single Animals due out on the 2nd November. It follows their well received debut album With Morning Toast & Jam & Juice. This new single may well be their most political track to date, pointedly tearing down the absurdity of the current regime in a way that will make you laugh, if even … Continue reading Frauds – Animals
Nashville’s Taco Mouth are releasing their full length album A Deafening Silence on Friday. We were big fans of the first single from it, You Say, and now here is the second, Fighting For Today. The single is a big fuck you to Donald Trump and his backwoods, ignorant, hateful views on Trans rights. Watch the video here. Continue reading Taco Mouth – Fighting For Today
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