We’re liking this, the latest track to be given away by The Whigs from their album In The Dark. Dying is a visceral, slow burn of a track, gradually building into an explosive crescendo of guitars, drums and feedback. Pulsating is probably the best word for it. Visit their MySpace here. Buy In The Dark from Amazon here. Download The Whigs – Dying mp3 (from … Continue reading New track from The Whigs
Insound.com have made their free June mixtape available here. As always, it will only be up for around a week (so be quick), and as always it is packed full of excellent tracks, which can all be yours in return for an e-mail address. Highlights among them this month being MM faves Blitzen Trapper, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Suckers, Teenage Fanclub, and these two gems we’ve picked … Continue reading Insound’s Free June Mixtape
To date, the sole commercially available release by striking new singer-songwriter Catherine A.D. is the Carry Your Heart EP, which saw the NME style her as ’kooky and spooky and very good’. The demonstration of that talent is perfectly exhibited on the forthcoming collection that comprises her EP Skeleton Songs. The songs are pared down to the bare bones, recorded in a bedroom atmosphere that leaves all … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Catherine A.D.
Common Prayer’s debut album, There Is A Mountain, was officially released yesterday through most digital retailers. The band is the new project from Jason Russo of Hopewell/Mercury Rev acclaim. The album is one of jangly off-kilter pop songs, often somber in theme, and concerned with the lives of the heartbroken, reckless, romantic and mentally ill from a reflective and victorious post-everything perspective. To begin with, … Continue reading New Album from Common Prayer
So the England squad is named for the festival of football in South Africa. So Emile Heskey is in and Darren Bent isn’t. So some things don’t make a whole lot of sense… This does though – a psychedelia-tinged, tribal, rubbery sing-along African anthem for the World Cup from the Blk Jks. Now that’s how you write a world cup song. Marvellous. Visit their MySpace … Continue reading A World Cup ahem “anthem”
Singer-songwriter Lail Arad releases her debut album Someone New on the 14th June via Notify Music. It is a wonderful blend of sharp-tongued pop and lovely folk overtones and is most certainly good enough to mark her out from the crowd as one to watch. Try the jaunty, strummed acoustics of Everyone Is Moving To Berlin, which has shades of Jeffrey Lewis, but most reminded us … Continue reading Introducing…Lail Arad
Here is our usual end of the month round up of the very best tracks posted on Mad Mackerel, with a couple of new ones too. A perfect mixtape for May. Wilderness of Manitoba – Hermit mp3 Intimate and gorgeous, with haunting guitar lines and beautiful harmonies. Buffalo Moon – Beach Boy mp3 Summery pop, beach references, breezy beats and sweet lounge vocals. Sun Kil … Continue reading MM’s Best Of The Month: May
You know what you’re going to get with Australian four-piece Eddy Current Suppression Ring. You’re going to get high octane, garage rock and proto-punk, drawing influences from The Troggs through to Wire and The Fall. There are no pretensions, no apologies, no surprises, no airs and graces and frankly they are all the better for it. The last album Rush To Relax was energetic, good humoured … Continue reading New from Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Le Sang Song are a folk band of sorts. However theirs is a skewed folk, mixing in all manner of styles and instruments, but never at the expense of the song or the rhythm. Their self-titled album was actually recorded in 2007, but only got a limited release at the start of this year. Gingerella is a case in point. It is right up MM’s … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Le Sang Song
We’re a little late to this one, 600,000 Bands being a 7″ single that came out at the tail end of 2009. However, it is one of those songs that once you’ve heard it, you shake your head, play it again and see if it was quite as original and surprising as you first thought. It is! The band, Felt Letters, are a trio from … Continue reading Introducing…Felt Letters
