See: Årabrot’s “Kinks Of The Heart” on display with new clip. [NSFW]
Industrialized post-punk duo Årabrot are certainly having a productive 2021. Ahead of the release of Norwegian Gothic, due out through Pelagic Records on April 9th, the combined direction of Kjetil Nernes and Karin Park dropped a surprise EP earlier in the year. They’ve now released the first video from the new album, a somewhat NSFW …
Album Review: FM Einheit orchestrates dreams with “Exhibition Of A Dream.”
Having made mention of KMFDM in a previous review, it would seem that the more euro-centric oddities that are emerging from the winter have made their way into the collective leftfield inbox a lot more than anticipated. That’s fine; when you’ve been asked to take a listen to an album by former Einstürzende Neubauten percussionist …
See: METZ become Kings of the Road with “Sugar Pill.”
Say what you will about METZ, the noisy Canadian post-punk three-piece currently signed to Sub Pop Records, but they are consistent. They have been across four studio albums now – Atlas Vending their most recent, critically acclaimed work. Stemming from that album, the group have released their latest video from the 2020 release, “Sugar Pill.” …
REVIEW: Marsha Fisher – New Ruins
There is a genuine, haunting beauty that comes with Minnesota-based sound artist Marsha Fisher. With the release of New Ruins also comes a compelling take on repurposing and interpolating older music. Sampling isn’t anything new in music – it’s a tenet for producers both within the genres of hip-hop all the way through to low-key …
SEE: Gary, Indiana game break with Alien 3
Manchester electronic post-punk outfit Gary, Indiana seem very much attuned to the habits of many bored-at-home UK residents, with the release of “Alien 3“, out now through Fire Talk Records. Bringing together clips from, among other things, hallowed video game Red Dead Redemption II (from what we spy… it could easily be an earlier instalment) …
TRACK: This Morn’ Omina release “1.000 Cuts (Lingh Chi)”
Belgian tribal industrial; three words that will undoubtedly pique your interest or have you wondering “what on earth is that?” But Belgian collective This Morn’ Omina rightfully summarise their output well with those three words and head of the release of their album, The Roots of Saraswati, have unveiled their newest single. Infectiously groove-laden, embracing …
NEWS: EUGENIUS’ “MIDLIFE” ISSUED ON CASSETTE.
I’ve admittedly slept on Ohio experimental hip-hop artist Eugenius when his album, Midlife, dropped in late 2020. Which is criminal given my appreciation of Death Grips, the sorely missed MF Doom and Danny Brown’s Atrocity Exhibition. Midlife by Eugenius Originally released in October, Eugenius’ fifth album “combines elements of hip hop, industrial, pop, noise and …
SEE: BLACK (W)HOLE – THE SHIFT
Austrian experimentalist Black (W)hole is already getting the leftfield brigade here at Backseat Mafia excited – the release of their forthcoming album Strange Worlds on March 5th has seen a few tracks shared for streaming over on their Bandcamp. It is however the simplistic, yet hypnotizing video for single “The Shift” that has further caught …
SEE: CHAOS E.T. SEXUAL – TOMORROW, PRUDENCE
2020 was, for want of better words, a real piece of work. Despite everything though, musically there were a few bright spots – one of which in his writer’s humble opinion being the release of French noise-rock trio Chaos E.T. Sexual‘s album Only Human Crust. The doomy, gritty music that Chaos, E.T. and Sexual committed …
ALBUM REVIEW – MATTHEW SWEET – CATSPAW.
Those of us around a certain age may fondly remember the college rock movement of the early-to-mid ‘90s. Lord knows I do. For a period of time, power-pop became fused with bittersweet moments that reigned across college radio in the United States. Juliana Hatfield, Grant Lee Buffalo, Luscious Jackson, Saturday Morning Cartoons’ Greatest Hits; the …