We’re a little late to this one, but our recent discovery of Bad//Dreems’ latest album Gutful was simply too good to keep to ourselves. From the self-proclaimed Aussie “outsider rock” camp, their blend of snotty garage punk, self-deprecating black humour and infectiously catchy pop melodies draw positive comparisons with other MM faves from the same stable such as The Dune Rats and Scott & Charlene’s … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends: Bad//Dreems
A new project from Stefanie Drootin (The Good Life, Big Harp, Bright Eyes, She & Him) and Chris Senseney (Big Harp), Umm finds the couple drawing inward, draping vintage harmonies and shards of fuzz over grounded, primitive rhythms and simple, aching pop melodies. Like the Everly Brothers and Suicide smoking cigarettes in bed and listening to the Breeders! Sound good? If so, check out a … Continue reading Introducing >>> Umm
We’ve been sharing a few tracks from Quiet Hollers forthcoming album Amen Breaks (it is out tomorrow via sonaBLAST!). The latest is Funny Ways, a song about criminality and the self-perpetuating prison-industrial complex. Have you ever had a friend that just can’t seem to stay out of trouble? That’s exactly who frontman Shadwick Wilde wrote this song for…. Listen below. Continue reading Quiet Hollers – Funny Ways
Bury, Manchester five-piece Ethan & The Reformation are all set to take off on their magic carpet whilst putting a contemporary twist on lost 60s psychedelia that allows them to make the most alluring escapist music. Across its 7 minutes, new single Free From Everything, is full of Eastern promise as its sucks up the dust from melodic artefacts through history and scatters it wide over a … Continue reading MM Shorts 957: Ethan & The Reformation
BRONCHO write some of the catchiest, most infectious indie-rock anthems around and Get In My Car, the Oklahoma quartet’s first new offering since releasing their third album Double Vanity in 2016, completely lives up to all expectations. A bit of glam rock, some garage swagger, and classic pop…stream it below. Continue reading BRONCHO – Get In My Car
Hiss Golden Messenger – Standing In The Doorway L.A. Witch – Kill My Baby Tonight Offa Rex – Sheepcrook and Black Dog Caroline Says – Winter Is Cold Wand – Plum Hans Chew – Give Up The Ghost Terry – Glory The Mynabirds – Cocoon Guantanamo Baywatch – Area 69 Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
At the start of the year, London label Fuzz Club Records put out a brilliant new record from Mexican duo Has A Shadow – a menacing, nine-track dive into motorik, almost-gothic post punk propelled by eerie organs, metronomic percussion, screeching guitars and haunting, atonal vocals. Watch the video for Sorrow, one of the stand out tracks from the record. Continue reading MM Shorts 956: Has A Shadow
The National have released the single Guilty Party off their forthcoming album, Sleep Well Beast out September 8th on 4AD. It is a typically haunting, flickering track, that manages to be both sombre and compelling. Watch the video below. Continue reading The National – Guilty Party
Sonically, Widowspeak exist somewhere in the overlap between sombre indie rock, dream pop, slow-core and their own invented genre, “cowboy grunge”. New album Expect the Best is the follow up to 2015’s All Yours. While previous albums were conceived as a duo, the new LP finds the band playing to the specific strengths of the current four-piece touring incarnation and exhibits a marked increase in energy. Their usual palette of dusty guitars … Continue reading New Album From Widowspeak
After waiting a goodly while for Wooden Wand’s excellent new album Clipper Ship, James Jackson Toth has surprised us with a second full length release, Toth’s Law. It is a collection of songs which were, for one reason or another, not included on previous releases. Not because they weren’t good, but because according to JJT ” I think of every album as a fish tank. As … Continue reading Wooden Wand – Toth’s Law
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