Here is the second part of our countdown of our favourite 100 songs of 2020. 75 Protomartyr – Worm in Heaven 74 Flat Worms – The Aughts 73 IDLES – Mr Motivator 72 Bee Bee Sea – Day Ripper 71 TRAAMS – Greyhound 70 Gum Country – Tennis (I Feel OK) 69 Songhoy Blues – Badala 68 … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Tracks Of 2020: Part 2 (75-51)
Young Knives (brothers Henry Dartnall and The House of Lords) are releasing a third track from their forthcoming album Barbarians. The outstanding Society for Cutting Up Men is named after Valerie Solanas’ feminist political pamphlet the SCUM Manifesto. Henry says: “I really just wanted to write a song from this position. The basic idea is that women should rise up and the man is obsolete. It … Continue reading New Video: Young Knives – Society For Cutting Up Men
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The Young Knives have released a typically oddball video for their track White Sands (which they have described as “Almost a bit like “Song 2″ but more Big Black”). Either way the video is full of flags, bugs, crustaceans and Mentos! Go figure, good song though! . . Continue reading Video: Young Knives – White Sands
A month ago, Young Knives released their fourth album proper (and fifth if you count debut mini-album The Young Knives …Are Dead) entitled Sick Octave. Funded by a Kickstarter campaign, it is a typically wilful and exhilarating sharp left turn from the band following the bright indie pop of Ornaments From The Silver Arcade, encompassing jagged industrial beats, ferocious krautrock, the occasional sneering brit-pop pastiche, and … Continue reading MM’s 5:1 Interview No. 15: Young Knives
We’ve posted one taste from the forthcoming Young Knives album Sick Octave, which is due for release in November, and now we have another in the shape of new single We Could Be Blood (out on 28th October). They will also be on tour throughout most of November (dates below). They are perhaps our most natural successors to that great line of observational, and opinionated, … Continue reading Young Knives Tour and New Single
We have had a taste already from the Young Knives forthcoming album Sick Octave, which sees a release on November 4th following a successful Kickstarter campaign. Here is another, and Something Awful would seem to confirm that the three piece have gleefully taken a sharp left to deliver something darker and more industrial than anything they have done before. The band say of the song, “Something … Continue reading New Young Knives Track
An excellent set of videos/tunes today from the outstanding Joe Pug with a lyric video with a slight difference and the song itself, a cover of Harvey “Tex” Thomas Young’s Deep Dark Wells is a stunner. We have the Young Knives continuing their welcome return with their new musical film for Maureen, and Soledad Velez’s video for Black Light In The Forest. Lastly, we have MM … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Joe Pug || The Young Knives || Soledad Velez || Hookworms
The Young Knives, adopted by my hometown Oxford by way of Loughbrough, are undoubtedly one of the finest post punk guitar bands of the new millennium. From the early krautrock inspired Walking on the Autobahn to angst ridden shout-a-thon She’s Attracted To via the brilliance of miserabilist anthem Weekends and Bleakdays (Hot Summer) and straight-up rocker Terra Firma, they have provided a plethora of outstanding singles and albums. Blending a … Continue reading The Very Welcome Return of the Young Knives
Seeing the Young Knives perform at Truck recently reminded me what a damn fine band they are. Last week they released a new single from latest album Ornaments From The Silver Arcade. Vision In Rags melds the band’s well known piquant lyricism to a carnival swing fit to grace Notting Hill. The single is available to download as a bundle with new and exclusive content. Why … Continue reading New Single & Video From Young Knives
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