We are muchly looking forward to Simone Felice’s new album The Projector, described as “a handcrafted album of lone guitars echoing in the twilight, nocturnal electronics and woodsy vocals.” The second track from it is The Fawn, and it certainly seems to be living up to the hype – intense, mesmeric and building to an undeniably powerful coda. Listen below. Continue reading Simone Felice – The Fawn
Dr Dog – Go Out Fighting Simone Felice – The Projector Vintage Crop – Gerald Part 2 Drinks – Real Outside The Low Anthem – Give My Body Back Bonny Doon – A Lotta Things Dan Michaelson – Sand Beach House – Lemon Glow Swampmeat Family Band – Needle & Thread Eleanor Friedberger – In Between Stars Holly Miranda – To Be Loved … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
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
Following our countdown of favourite songs of the year, here is part one of MM’s selection of the forty albums we most enjoyed throughout 2014. 40 The Orwells – Disgraceland . 39 Iceage – Plowing Into The Field Of Love 38 The Cult Of Dom Keller – The Second Bardo . 37 Mark Lanegan Band – Phantom Radio . 36 Hamilton Leithauser – Black Hours … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Albums Of 2014 (Part 1)
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
The longest day has come and gone, and halfway through the year we are. It seemed a good point to reflect and share thirty of our favourite albums of 2014 so far, and so here they are, in strictly alphabetical order of course… . The Amazing Snakeheads – Amphetamine Ballads . Amen Dunes – Love . Avers – Empty Light . Dan Baker – Pistol In … Continue reading Favourite Albums of 2014 (So Far)
We were fortunate enough to receive our advance copy of Simone Felice’s new album Strangers in the mail this week and it has been in pretty constant play ever since. We’d already posted a couple of outstanding tracks from the record and happily the rest of it is just as good, if not better. It is a mix of the tender, the forlorn, the beautiful … Continue reading Simone Felice – UK Tour & Posters
We are looking forward immensely to Simone Felice’s new album Strangers (UK release on 24th March via Team Love Records). If the release of the first track from it, Molly O!, fed that anticipation, a first listen to Running Through My Head has fuelled it a whole lot more. More introverted, more isolated, it amply showcases his very considerable talents as a poet and songwriter. … Continue reading Simone Felice Reveals Running Through My Head
As you might expect, December is a quiet month for new releases, especially non-festive ones, but we’ve still managed to come up with a mix of 16 top-notch downloads for you from our monthly postings. As always, we have a couple of new tracks too, and you can also check out our new monthly mix page here, that has every single monthly mix we’ve posted available … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: December 2013
Taken from the forthcoming new album Strangers, set for release through Team Love Records in the UK on March 24th, songwriter, and longstanding MM fave, Simone Felice returns with the record’s opening single, Molly-O! It comes draped in the additional vocal talents of Wesley Schultz & Jeremiah Fraites of The Lumineers, and the song is described by Felice as “a song where we get to go … Continue reading New Simone Felice Single & Album
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