With Dream Dream Secret Colours continues to craft a sound that reaches far beyond the city limits of their hometown of Chicago, taking its musical cues from indie, pop, psychedelia, and garage rock, and offering listeners a myriad of melodies that make up the band’s signature sound. Check out Feed the Machine, which delivers a pounding vibe of bass with an attitude of 70s London and the … Continue reading New Album From Secret Colours
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)
Positive Distractions Part II from Secret Colours will be out across all digital formats on the 29th April. The merged vinyl and cassette versions of Positive Distractions Part I and Part II will be available the same same day, April 29… that same week they will be performing at Austin Psych Fest. Here is Into You, a surprise single for the weekend. . Continue reading MM Shorts 540: Secret Colours
Shortly after releasing Positive Distractions Part I, Chicago’s Secret Colours release the first single, Heavy & Steady, from Positive Distractions Part II. The bass-heavy single showcases the quintet’s maturing psych-pop sensibilities heard throughout both EPs. Have a listen. . Continue reading Secret Colours – Heavy & Steady
MM regulars and psych-rockers par excellence, Secret Colours have a new single to share with you. City Slickers is a brilliant slab of lean, pulsating, hypnotic rock-riffing that begs to be heard…loud. The track comes from the first of two scheduled EPs, Positive Distractions Part I (out on February 4th). Positive Distractions Part II follows towards the end of April. Check out our previous post of … Continue reading Secret Colours – City Slickers Single
Videos to banish the January blues! Watch top notch musical films from Secret Colours, the second in a series of four new videos from Cass McCombs, Austin Lucas’ Elvis impersonation, Elf Power’s recruitment of the infamous Goth Clogger, and the excellent Persian Leaps. . . . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Secret Colours || Cass McCombs || Austin Lucas || Elf Power || The Persian Leaps
A superb collection of videos (and songs) today. Just dive into these from The Handsome Family, Secret Colours, Dinosaur Bones and a live version of one of our favourite tracks from 2012, Willy Mason’s brilliant Restless Fugitive. . . [Click through for free downloads] . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Handsome Family || Secret Colours || Dinosaur Bones || Willy Mason
Yesterday the hippie loving, Britpop loving, reverb loving, space-rocking Secret Colours officially released their excellent sophomore album Peach. Here is a another taster from it, the slow burning Freak that gradually builds and builds before exploding thrillingly into a full-on psych blowout. In fact, this track is so damn groovy it can be seen in its spare time wearing a kaleidoscopic kaftan and thumbing a lift … Continue reading Secret Colours Release Peach
Watch the tripped out video for Secret Colours excellent track Blackhole and the unsettling and spooky video for Arrows of Love delicate yet blood-splattered murder ballad The Knife. We have more kaleidoscopic effects on Temples video for forthcoming single Colours To Life, and finally (via a heads-up from Slowcoustic) comes Bird Of Song from a Show Me Shows session by the wonderful Water Liars that was way … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Secret Colours || Arrows of Love || Temples || Water Liars
The kaleidoscopic psychedelia and space rock hymns of Secret Colours have been longstanding faves on MM since we first discovered them back in 2010. On May 28th the band will release sophomore album Peach and for now you can revel in the feedback and mind bending sonics of Blackhole and Blackbird (Only One). Continue reading MM Shorts 364: Secret Colours Announce Peach
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