We were big fans of country garage quintet Sleep Eaters’ Holy Days EP last year, making our end of year Best of List, and now they are back with In This Town, which is in fact the very first track the band recorded together two years ago. It is meant as a stopgap release to help tide us over during the quarantine and ahead of … Continue reading New From Sleep Eaters
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)
London based country-infused rock quintet Sleep Eaters will unveil their debut EP Holy Days next week, on 9th August, via Stockholm’s PNKSLM Recordings. With their country-infused take on garage rock, we’ve been looking forward to this one a lot – we’ve already shared a couple of tracks from it and now we have the psych-tinged darkness of Life of Sin to brighten up your Friday. It … Continue reading Sleep Eaters – Holy Days EP
London based country-infused rock quintet Sleep Eaters will soon unveil their EP Holy Days on 9th August via Stockholm’s ever reliable PNKSLM Recordings. We were excited by their debut single Ghost on Fire last year and if anything Bad Love from the new EP is even better. It follows on from first taster Don’t Sell Your Soul and both are brilliant country-infused takes on garage rock. … Continue reading Sleep Eaters – Holy Days EP
It’s time for MM’s annual round up of our favourite songs of the year. Thanks as always go to all our regular contributors – Mrs Mackerel, Chris T Popper, the Italian Job, Polly Pocket and a very welcome return to the fold for Dr Roddy. So without further ado, lets start the countdown. 100 Cabbage – Preach To The Converted In a year that … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Songs of the Year – Part 1 (100-76)
Emerging from the darkest depths of Hackney Wick in London comes garage-rock outlaws Sleep Eaters with their brilliantly catchy debut single Ghost on Fire out on Strong Island Recordings via digital and a limited run of handmade tapes. It is just over two minutes of cacophonous, fuzzed out, desert, cowboy garage-rock, that sounds like a feral cross between The Black Lips, The Stooges and the … Continue reading Introducing >>> Sleep Eaters
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