And so here is the final personal Top Twenty of the year. This time it is my turn! Another twelve months neatly wrapped up and delivered for your listening pleasure and here’s to 2016… 20. Quiet Hollers – Mont Blanc An apocalyptic, “end-is-nigh” rolling, country rock anthem. Pure poetry with the best coda to a song I heard all year, “shed a tear for the books … Continue reading MM’S BEST OF THE YEAR: MAD MACKEREL’S TOP TWENTY SONGS
Our Best of the Year posts are coming to a close and for the penultimate list we hand over to the ever fragrant Mrs Mackerel. Over to you Mrs M… Another year banked. As ever, I look at my list and think yes, there are some that are keepers and others that maybe were just a mirage. A little like life really. 20 The … Continue reading MM’S BEST OF THE YEAR: MRS MACKEREL’S TOP TWENTY SONGS
The latest instalments of personal Top Tens comes from regular MM contributor Polly Pocket. Enjoy. 10. Courtney Barnett – Pedestrian At Best I always find myself smiling and shouting along to this one in equal measure. A ton of lyrics that shouldn’t work together but somehow sound perfect. I’ve always loved origami. 9. Noah Gundersen – Slow Dancer This is a beauty. A … Continue reading MM’S BEST OF THE YEAR: POLLY POCKET’S TOP TEN SONGS
Following Barry-Sean’s welcome return to the MM bosom yesterday, we are equally delighted to now introduce The Italian Job’s debut entry into MM’s Best Of annals (and don’t try saying that when you’ve had too much eggnog). Providing us with a welcome European flavour, and writing better in her second language than we can in our first, we invite you to sample her pleasingly punk-tinged favourites … Continue reading MM’S BEST OF THE YEAR: THE ITALIAN JOB’S TOP TWENTY SONGS
Here we go then, our final countdown of our favourite tracks of 2015, with no fewer than three artists managing two entries in the top 25 this year! And don’t forget you can see the other 75 choices here (100-75), here (75-51) and here (50-26). Enjoy. 25 Ghostpoet – Off Peak Dreams 24 Tracy Thorn – Goodbye Joe (2015 re-issue) 23 Calexico – Follow … Continue reading MM’S BEST TRACKS OF 2015: 25-1
It’s the third instalment of our end of year list of our favourite tracks of 2015. Today we enter the top half of the chart with numbers 50 through to 26. 50 Mutual Benefit – Not For Nothing 49 Rats On Rafts – Last Day On Earth 48 Slaves – Ninety Nine 47 Diet Cig – Harvard 46 Decemberists – The … Continue reading MM’S BEST TRACKS OF 2015: 50-26
Here are our favourite albums of 2015. 15 Julien Baker – Sprained Ankle 14 Joe Ely – Panhandle Rambler 13 Low – Ones And Sixes 12 James McMurtry – Complicated Game 11 Titus Andronicus – The Most Lamentable Tragedy 10 Quiet Hollers – Quiet Hollers 9 Girl Band – Holding Hands With Jamie 8 Ezra Furman – Perpetual … Continue reading MM’S BEST ALBUMS OF 2015: 15-1
A bumper round up this week – new songs from The Decemberists, Steve Earle & The Dukes, Saintseneca, the mighty Killing Joke, cover songs from Iron & Wine and Okkervil River and plenty more besides. The Decemberists – Why Would I Now? Saintseneca – River Alela Diane & Ryan Francesconi – Shapeless Killing Joke – I Am The Virus The Lovely Eggs – Goofing’ Around (In Lancashire) … Continue reading Twenty Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 1)
Our regular round up of the songs you really should have heard already this week, chief among them a brand new song from MM fave Sharon Van Etten, a couple of cracking covers and a newly discovered Jason Molina song with Will Oldham and Alasdhair Roberts. Enjoy. 1. Sharon Van Etten – I Don’t Want To Let You Down 2. The Smoke Fairies – Steal Softly … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Our final entry of the year highlighting the songs you really should have wrapped your earbuds around already this week. 1. Male Bonding – Falling 2. Menace Beach – Tastes Like Medicine 3. The Decemberists – The Wrong Year 4. Meat Wave – Mystery (Wipers cover) 5. Evans The Death – Don’t Laugh At My Angry Face 6. Modest Mouse – Lampshades On Fire . … Continue reading Six Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
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