So we exit April, which true to form turned out to be wetter than a Mackerel's handshake. No matter, banish the blues with this scorching mix of some of the best downloads we offered in the month, plus a few new ones to get to know and love too. Download Alexander Tucker - Window Sill mp3 (from Third Mouth) Minimalist string arrangements with electronic manipulations and drones to produce a doom chamber-pop song. Download Amanda Jo Williams – The Bear Eats Me mp3 (from The Bear Eats [...]
Swedish indie Americana outfit The Plastic Pals are back with a new album on the way, here the teaser track to whet the appetite. THE PLASTIC PALS | "Leave It Til Tomorrow" (2012) by birdswillsingforyou
The Plastic Pals left a mark on the European garage and Americana scene with their debut album Good Karma Café a few years back. This time around the band are offering up single, Leave It 'Til Tomorrow as a taster of their forthcoming new album. This is heroin disco chic in the style of the Velvet Underground and Berlin-era Bowie . Download it below. a Follow @madmackerel
Released back during the warmer temperatures of August as a free download, evoking distant memories for Santa Claus resting by the pool in his red and white Speedos, checking his Emails while sipping a margarita. Mind you, it does seem a while since we posted a more acoustic filled agenda. Banjos and mandolins, fresh harmonies with sophistication. Callooh! Callay! provide a nice calming substitute for today`s more fastidious live audiences. "Callooh! Callay! released `The Bird's Run` EP on August 4th, 2009. The EP was their first release, it was [...]
Continuing our healthy interest in the musical talents of Scandinavian guitar outfit `The Plastic Pals`, so frequently categorised under bands that always seem to have places to go and people to see. Still riding on a retro high with last years fantastic `Good Karma Cafe` album, two live shows are booked for the pleasure of the London Boroughs of Camden and Leytonstone . Ignoring the comfort zone, our Swedish friends still have the appetite for winning over new audiences so far from home. 6th November – The [...]
The first rock riffs cut like a sharp razorblade through all veils of distance that was present before I started to listen. And so I enter Lars Clevemans new album "Voices In My Head", a record that was released yesterday. And Lars deserves the attention he gets as I continue to listen. It's a real album, twisting and turning, surprising, going inwards and outwards. And yet it forms a whole with Lars Cleveman's special voice. And special it is. First I come to think of Iggy Pop and his special expression in the seventies [...]
A couple of months ago The Plastic Pals released their debut album "Good Karma Café". A solid, exciting rock and powerpop album with a collection of strong tracks with The Plastic Pals' own special sound. It feels like great retro mixture molded into something new. I get so many associations to this that I find it hard to tell them apart into some kind of description. Sixties pop, psychadelia, Blue Öyster Cult, Television, and yes it feels clean and rough at the same time. I really love the vocals from Håkan Soold, which adds a lot of soul [...]
Just under a week to go before the city suburbs are woken to the very marvellous sound of The Plastic Pals, undoubtedly one of the most multi-influenced bands from Scandinavia to play dates in London this year. New Wave to moody PowerPop, long coated Eighties Indie to Sixties Psychedelia, I love the varied tone these guys have achieved with their new release `Good Karma Cafe`, musically laid down as an inspired blueprint or an instant guideline for the last four decades of guitar based music. For us, the pick of these three [...]
Jag fick mail från gruppen The Plastic Pals häromdan. Bandet är från Stockholm och har följande laguppställning: Håkan Soold : gitarr och sång Anders Sahlin : gitarr och kör Olov Öqvist : trummor och percussion Bengt Alm : bas och kör På deras Myspace-konto finns fyra låtar att lyssna på och när jag lyssnade på första låten If love should call så hörde jag plötsligt Bruce Springsteen i Håkan Soolds röst. Den försvann nästan lika fort som den kommit men känslan av [...]
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