We’ve posted a couple of times about the sophomore album Two Ghosts by Sick Figures and the latest track they are giving away is the eerily catchy Never Change. Tombstone pop anyone? Download Sick Figures – Never Change mp3 (from Two Ghosts) Continue reading MM Shorts 186: Another From Sick Figures
We’ve posted a couple of times from the Sick Figures excellent album Two Ghosts released back in the autumn of 2011, and they have now made another track available for free. This is the morbidly portentous Manor Song, a slow, swirling velvet fog of a tune. a Continue reading MM Shorts 121: More From Sick Figures
Another bonanza month of top tunes, all rounded up for you in one perfect download mix. Here are the September highlights together, as always, with a couple of top-notch new tracks too. Download The Migrant – The Hurricane mp3 (from Amerika) Distinguished by a slow blues refrain, handclaps and a mournful vocal, it is one of those tunes that sounds like it has been around forever. Download … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: September 2011
We posted last month about Sick Figures new album – a morbid tale of two lovers, titled Two Ghosts. The album got its official release yesterday and here are two more tracks for you to sample. The brilliantly off-kilter Whiskey Song with its military beat, chaotic sounds and chanted lyrics that calls to mind a nursery rhyme composed by Charles Bukowski at his most pissed … Continue reading Sick Figures New Album Released
Our usual round up of the very best of our August posts and some new tracks too. Dip in – every one a winner as they say. Download The Cabin Dogs – High Falls mp3 (from Midnight Trail) Invites you to kick off your boots, pour a stiff one and sit on the porch to watch the sun go down – a song for when you’re busy … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: August 2011
Sick Figures second album, Two Ghosts is a collection of songs which weaves a morbid tale of two lovers whose affair will not end in death. The band maintains the raucous, saloonish type of rock and roll that they are known for, but this time evoke a darker, more eerie mood. Here is the lead off single from the album, the appropriately entitled Graveyard Swagger. … Continue reading Introducing…Sick Figures
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