We’re absolutely loving the new single from Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. Channelling past masters like the Modern Lovers, The Fall and Iggy Pop, as well as contemporaries like Idles and Shame, Chequeless Reckless is built on a great hypnotic, kraut-rock infused cyclical riff, and some scalpel sharp lyrics. We’re pretty damn sure it is going to end up in our end of year best of lists… A sellout … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Fontaines D.C.
Catch It is Iceage’s first new material since 2014’s Plowing Into The Field of Love. Recalling the Bad Seeds or a more brutal version of the Cure, the song thrums with barely restrained tension, teetering on the verge of collapse for the first three and a half minutes while Elias Bender Rønnenfelt’s lyrics plumb the deepest corners of human emotion – intimacy, betrayal, and contemplation, before exploding into … Continue reading Iceage – Catch It
We recently shared Russian Baths’ excellent What’s Your Basement, a marvellously queasy slab of noise rock, and now we have the follow-up for your listening pleasure. Poolhouse is a slightly more restrained affair, with a woozily elegant yet sweetly off-kilter middle bookended by rushes of swelling, noisy guitars and thunderous percussion. Good stuff. Dive in here. Continue reading More From Russian Baths
Okkervil River’s new record is called In The Rainbow Rain, and is released on the 27th April. Described as a buoyant and playful record spattered with starbursts of electric guitar, big blooms of synth, and a chorus of backing vocals, the first taste is Don’t Move Back To LA, the light-hearted midpoint of the album. Bandleader Will Sheff says the song “had a very straightforward impulse behind it: … Continue reading Okkervil River – Don’t Move Back To LA
PJ Harvey & Harry Escott – An Acre Of Land Goat Girl – The Man Screaming Females – No More I Love You’s (Annie Lennox cover) EELS – Today Is The Day Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Middle America King Tuff – Psycho Star Say Sue Me – Old Town Shakey Graves – Counting Sheep Plain Dog – Reptile Boy … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Here is a second track from psych-rock supergroup MIEN. With members from The Black Angels, The Horrors, Elephant Stone and The Earlies expectations are naturally high and Earth Moon delivers in spades. A hypnotic, transcendental groove with its roots in the mystic sounds of the east combines with the wide-eyed innocence of the peace and love era of the sixties. Listen here. Their self-titled debut album is out on … Continue reading MIEN – Earth Moon
Haley Heynderickx’s debut album I Need To Start A Garden mixes folk, doo wop, atmospheric guitars with beautiful instrumentation sitting next to stark rawer moments. We already shared the stunning Untitled God Song, and now we have the equally good Worth It, which over the course of nearly eight minutes undulates from soft-hums into moments of crashing catharsis all led by her incredible, arresting voice and … Continue reading More From Haley Heynderickx
Car Seat Headrest has unveiled the final single before the release of his new album Twin Fantasy, which is out on the 16th February on Matador. This time it is the album opener My Boy (Twin Fantasy), which kicks off with a sparse, plaintive declaration of “my boy, we don’t see each other much”, and blossoms into a towering sonic climax, with the mantra of … Continue reading Car Seat Headrest – My Boy (Twin Fantasy)
We loved Suck The Blood From My Wound, the last single Ezra Furman shared from his much anticipated new long player Transangelic Exodus, which will be released on the 9th February on Bella Union. Now we have his latest offering from the record, the jagged, agitated, and it must be said, spectacularly named Maraschino-Red Dress $8.99 at Goodwill. Give it a spin below. Continue reading New Single From Ezra Furman
We loved Disgraced In America, the most recent single from Ought’s soon to be released new album Room Inside The World (out via Merge Records on the 16th). Now we can share the album’s side one closer, Desire, with you. Marvellously described by bassist Ben Stidworthy as “Sade meets Bruce Springsteen,” the song employs a 70-piece vocal choir and uncovers a romantic side of the band … Continue reading More From Ought
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