We’ve decided to do things a bit differently this year – too many times in the past we’ve posted our favourite songs of the year and then discovered late releases we wished we’d added! And also 2019 was a shit year for the world – Brexit, Johnson, Trump, the world burning… at least there is music. So, way after everyone else has done theirs, here … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Songs of 2019 (Part 1)
T. Hardy Morris -Scare Easy (Mudcrutch cover) Damien Jurado – Throw Me Now Into Your Arms Cate le Bon – Daylight Matters Calexico And Iron & Wine – Father Mountain Wand – Walkie Talkie An Horse – This Is A Song Weyes Blood – Movies Honeyblood – Glimmer The Dream Syndicate – Put Some Miles On Mitski – Let’s Get Married (Bleachers cover) Cherry Pickles … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
A slightly quieter week due I suspect to Thanksgiving, but still we have eight new songs from you. Check out tracks from Father John Misty, Cate Le Bon, Howe Gelb and Tim Cohen (of the Fresh & Onlys), another taste from the Lower Plenty’s album Sister Sister, as well as excellent new singles from Proper Ornaments, Beachheads and Matthew Squires & The Learning Disorders. Over … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
With her much anticipated fourth album Crab Day due for release 15th April on Turnstile Records, and some live UK dates coming up, Cate Le Bon has today unveiled a video for new single Wonderful. Shot in Berlin, the video features Le Bon performing an idiosyncratic freeform dance-cum-exercise routine. Of the video, she simply says: “‘Wonderful’ is an awkward love song accompanied by an equally awkward video. … Continue reading New Video: Cate Le Bon – Wonderful
Our penultimate offering comes in the shape of Mrs Mackerel’s favourite songs of 2014… …I think, being a fish of some advancing years now, I know what I like – but at least that ranges quite widely (she says, defiantly). As usual, though, I’m late to deadline, so without further pontification or procrastination, here are my favourite songs of 2014. 20. War On Drugs – … Continue reading Best of the Year: Mrs Mackerel’s Top Twenty
Day three of our countdown – tracks 60 through to 41 of our favourite songs of the year. 60 Cate Le Bon – He’s Leaving . 59 Jamie T – The Prophet . 58 Mark Lanegan Band – Sad Lover . 57 The Districts – Funeral Beds . 56 The Amazing Snakeheads – Here It Comes Again . 55 Sleaford Mods – Routine Dean . … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Songs Of 2014: 60-41
Mrs Mackerel was lucky enough to catch Cate Le Bon live in Oxford this week, so it seemed an opportune moment to share her new video for Duke. It is a tour diary that takes a murderous turn! Watch it here. . . . Continue reading New Video: Cate Le Bon – Duke
Previously we’ve just offered Best of the Month postings with downloads, but that excludes so many quality songs we’ve decided to just post our favourite tracks – irrespective of whether they are free to download or not. If you like them add them to your Spotify playlists or do the old fashioned thing and download them from iTunes, Bandcamp, or wherever. Anyway, with a bit … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Months: March – May (Part 1)
The third single to be taken from her third album Mug Museum, and one of our favourite tracks on the record, Sisters explores the female relationships in Cate Le Bon’s life, following the loss of her Grandmother, a running theme throughout the album. Cate comments, “Following the death of my maternal Grandmother I felt a very palpable shift in the roles that we’d all become accustomed … Continue reading New Cate Le Bon Single
Another month, another free mix of the best of our downloads from February. As always the mix includes some new tunes too from the retro 60s swagger of The Rebel Light, quirky bedroom pop from Copenhagen’s Eerie Glue, the excellent Lou Reed inspired, slacker rock of Posse, and King of Prussia’s literate, indie pop jangle. Download them all below. . The Woodgrains – Devils Disheveled … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: February 2014
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