Panache is excited to announce that Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Mac Demarco and Mikal Cronin will be performing at this year’s FYF Fest at the beautiful LA State Historic Park. We are very excited to spend two amazing days out in the sun with such a fabulous line-up. Tickets are available now and can […]
“…Check out a trailer for the record below, which features Ty cheekily resting in various spots and a bit of music, presumably from the release…”
“…”Change” is its most aggressive moment, a “wild and wooly” guitar freakout “made more forceful by dizzying strings and woodwinds.”…”
“…Directed by Claire Marie Vogel, the video follows the antics of a wild house party…”
“…California fuzz-rocker Mikal Cronin has shared a grungy house-party clip to accompany “Change”, a highlight from his excellent new MCII LP…”
“…Canadian musician Mac Demarco was on several Paste staffers must-see list as we embarked on the week-long music overdose of SXSW…”
“Ty Segall makes it difficult to imagine him ever resting, let alone sleeping. On August 20, however, the Bay Area garage rocker will release a new album titled Sleeper via Drag City…”
“…The band’s live shows are renowned for the energy and a sort of heads-down-no-nonsense-mindless-boogie that makes the show at Exit07 an exciting prospect…”
“…Cronin’s shiny, happy second album packs a surfeit of melody, an unexpected boogie-woogie piano solo, some violin, key changes to punch the air to…”
Photos from Thee Oh Sees’ show at London’s Scala.
“MCII, smartly arranged with a keen, child-of-the-’90s ear for quiet-loud dynamics, is a glimmering feast of sun-licked, surf-spackled melody that benefits from the emotional layering that Cronin finds lacking in “fuck it garage-rock.”…”
“Mac’s hitting the road this summer for an epic US/Canada tour…”
“…Cronin’s sincere, gentle approach breathes new life into the Scot rockers’ oft-mocked chugger, which came to fame via 1993’s Benny & Joon.”
“…Today’s Top Tune is the churning “Toe Cutter/Thumb Buster,” from their CD, Floating Coffin.”
“…But MCII exhibits such an easy, enjoyable knack for pop songwriting that, whatever it is, it’ll almost certainly be a joy to behold.”
“…The Lagniappe Sessions return with Mikal Cronin, whose sophomore solo LP and Merge Records debut, MCII, lands at your favorite record store today…”
“His debut on Merge, the CoS Top Star-earning MCII, is the product of ever-shifting landscapes in Cronin’s personal and professional life…”
“Cronin’s sophomore release, MCII, is a nuanced collage of quintessentially “California” pop songs—or, at the very least, how the rest of the country perceives such songs to look and feel…”
“…It’s all about things I’m trying to figure out in my personal life and about myself. That seems to be pretty universal in twenty-something people, as I’ve discovered…”
“…The 7-minute mini-doc, directed and produced by Babak Khoshnoud and Will Abramson, follows Cronin around the Mission in San Francisco, into the studio, and down to the gritty-looking basement where he works…”
“Cartoon hub Adult Swim recently leaked new tunes by Thee Oh Sees and the Black Lips to promote their Dr. Pepper-assisted Garage Swim comp, and today (May 6) it is giving the whole thing away for free…”
“I’ve listened to Mikal Cronin’s sophomore album about 54 times already. That doesn’t say anything else but this: It’s really good…”
“MCII, Cronin’s sophomore outing, is a fresh beginning. It’s a celebration of the new, even if that’s scary at times, rather than a reflection on the past…”
“The album itself is full of emotion, lushly layered with a saturation of sound (a formula that sounded distinctively familiar to my ear…”
“…For this edition, we spoke with Mikal Cronin, a member of Ty Segall Band whose second solo album, the Best New Music pick MCII, is out next week…”
“John Dwyer’s otherworldly vocal yelps belie the morbid lyrical undertones of Floating Coffin, his prolific band’s latest collection of joyous nihilism…”
“…The Montreal-based musician’s latest slo-fi album, 2, and crazy stage antics have made him a favourite with Pitchfork, European festivals, bloggers and Phoenix…”
“…Cronin has proved with this album that, like Cobain before him, he’s so much more than a longhair with a fuzz pedal. He’s an excellent pop craftsman who knows how to turn the power up for maximum effect.”
Mac DeMarco performs his track, “Still Together” on Zündfunk Video Unplugged.
“Thee Oh Sees set my brain on fire… My music nerd brain tries to summon the name of every band they remind me of…”
