Thirty Pounds of Bone’a annual Christmas sing-a-long this year is In The Bleak Midwinter, which according to his Twitter was recorded “in a little cottage on an island on a lake in Ireland”.
Have a listen.
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Christmas Is Coming… Here Are Thirty Pounds Of Bone
Posted: December 21, 2016 in Alternative, Indie, Music, RockTags: Thirty Pounds Of Bone
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Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: March 2013
Posted: April 1, 2013 in Acoustic, Alternative, Americana, Country, Folk, Garage, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, RockTags: Beams, Blank Realm, Blood Sister, Broken Anchor, Burning Hell, Colleen Green, Conner Youngblood, Dillon Hodges, Dirty Fences, God Tiny, Graham MacRae, Hawk And Dove, Killing Fields Of Ontario, Kurt Vile, Lower Plenty, Monuments & Statues, Owl Fly South, Pairs, Pure X, Quiet Parade, Scanners, Steady Sun, Thermals, Thirty Pounds Of Bone, Upside Drown, Virginia Wing, Wooden Wand
Here are the very best of our downloads from March’s posts together with a few new tunes for your listening pleasure. So close to 30 tracks in all – a perfect playlist to kick off April.
Quite Parade – Edge of the Ocean
A perfectly judged slice of Canadian indie rock, it is an anthem about a dying town that seems hopeless but is still worth fighting for.
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Conner Youngblood – Vegas
Kicks off with some ominous ringing guitar over which vocals echo and swirl before slow but hypnotic percussion cuts in and the song gradually increases in intensity before finally fading away like a firework over a night sky.
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Download Colleen Green – Heavy Shit mp3 (from Sock it to Me)
Perfectly judged pop-punk.
Blank Realm – Go Easy
Takes 90s slacker indie and buries it in a heady swirl of scuzzy guitars and stoned vocals.
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Download Pairs – Part Songs mp3 (from If This Cockroach Doesn’t Die, I Will)
Clocks in at just over 2 minutes of buzzsaw guitars, machine gun percussion and lyrics about dead shipmates, date-rape and all manner of other sordid topics.
Beams – Be My Brother
Lush instrumentation and lovely vocal harmonies hide the fact that lyrically something altogether more discomforting and baleful lies beneath the surface.
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Wooden Wand – Dungeon Of Irons
Yet another stand out track from an outstanding album.
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The Burning Hell – Grown-ups
Deep, baritone vocals reveal a caustic, almost savage, black humour and brilliantly observed comments on the minutiae of life that can make you squirm with embarrassed recognition.
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Thirty Pounds Of Bone – Home Faring
Possessed of a singular and unique vision, where distraction, desolation, and despair are constant companions and distortion and drone are artfully used to heighten emotions and force the listener to really partake of what is going on.
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Lower Plenty – Nullarbor
A perfectly judged track of hazy countrified melancholia.
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Monuments & Statues – Red Dress
Beautifully anchored by banjo with animated cello and vocals alternately assuming lead status.
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The Thermals – Born To Kill
Dark, brash, and violent.
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Download Kurt Vile – Never Run Away mp3 (from Wakin On A Pretty Daze)
Another hazy, woozy taste from forthcoming album.
Download Dirty Fences – Heaven Is Tonight mp3 (from Too High To Kross)
Razor sharp riffs and perfectly executed harmonies.
God Tiny – Fearless
Oozes primal garage rock and psych-blues creds in a way that is impossible to resist.
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Broken Anchor – Never Leave Me Alone
Infectious, catchy, anthemic indie rock.
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Download Owl Fly South – Blink (Incandescent Days) mp3 (from Blink/Castle)
More than promising garage/psych/pop.
Steady Sun – Eyes Wide
A lovely blend of gentle psychedelia and pastoral folk.
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Blood Sister – Bart Simpson
Noisy trash-pop.
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Upside Drown – Go
Naggingly catchy garage pop.
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Pure X – Someone Else
Synths, guitars and tortured vocals make a compelling package.
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Virginia Wing – Red Sails
Their sound veers from the minimalist post punk of Young Marble Giants, to the twisted 60s psych bliss of Arthur Lee and Love and the cinematic krautpop of Broadcast.
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Hawk And Dove – Things We Lost So Far
Acoustic country with a classical influence make for a unique take on Americana.
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And to finish we have new tracks from The Scanners, the jaunty indie strum of Mexico comes from their new self-titled EP, while the brilliant and haunting Bullet From A Broken Heart by Dillon Hodges is Americana at its absolute finest and is taken from forthcoming album Rumspringa. Our third new track Wait comes from Graham MacRae’s new album Dundrearies, a perfectly judged downtempo contemplation of loneliness, disappointment, and how to live well. Lastly we have the high octane indie-folk of Killing Fields Of Ontario and the riotous, gypsy-tinged tale of disaster that is Twisted Little Theatre, which comes from new album How The World Ends.
Follow @madmackerelNew Album From Thirty Pounds Of Bone
Posted: March 19, 2013 in Alternative, Folk, Indie, Music, PsychedelicTags: Thirty Pounds Of Bone
A long time ago when we were on the hideous Google blogspot platform we posted about the unique and dislocated folk of Thirty Pounds Of Bone (aka singer-songwriter Johny Lamb).
So the news that he has a new album titled I Cannot Sing You Here, But For Songs Of Where, due out on the 6th May via Armellodie Records was especially good to hear. Even more so when we found out that the track Home Faring can be downloaded as of right now as a tasty appetiser.
This is one of those records that is possessed of a singular and unique vision, where distraction, desolation, and despair are constant companions and distortion and drone are artfully used to heighten emotions and force the listener to really partake of what is going on. It is a record concerned with movement and time and space, with tales of itinerants and migrants, about displacement and the search for home and belonging. It is a genuine folk record, not because it is carefully rooted in traditions, but precisely because it is the exact opposite, absorbing and translating modern times in a way that is intensely personal and absolutely original.
In short it is a damn fine record and for those of you who, like us, like a bit of grit and reality with your music from time to time, we’re willing to wager you will find exactly what you seek in this album.
You can pre-order it from Bandcamp here.
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