ALBUM REVIEW – POM POKO – CHEATER.
Pom Poko were first brought to Backseat Mafia’s attention early last year when they released their single “Praise” from their debut album Birthday released in 2019. Since then, they’ve been one of the bands from Bella Union’s spectrum of talent that have been a regular feature on the website and the release of “Like A …
ALBUM REVIEW – FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY – MECHANICAL SOUL
My Spotify Wrapped for 2020 showed that I listened to a lot of Fear Factory throughout the year. A lot – an obscene amount. What’s always been fascinating about the industrial metal band isn’t just the frenzied drumming or the harmonic-to-death-grown vocals but the ambience on both Demanufacture and Obsolete. Those mechanized effects, the haunting …
Album Review: Hanni El Khatib – FLIGHT
Reading about Hanni El Khatib, you get a real impression of the slacker-pop dream; an almost hobbyist musician who was inspired by friends to make a go of it, the one-time creative director for HUF passed around his CDR to people after a show in San Francisco. That landed in the hands of Innovative Leisure‘s …
Track: The Ellen Degenerates Fanorexic Club – The Ellen Degenerates Fanorexic Club
A double helping from Tauranga – still low in fidelity but arguably high in catchyness. The mouthful that is The Ellen Degenerates Fanorexic Club brings together a “who’s who” (or rather, “who the f**k”) of members from the area’s music scene – Austin Cunningham and Luke Turner (Threat.Meet.Protocol), Joel Burgin (Grown Downz, the previously covered …
Listen: BURG – Secretor
There’s a muddy fuzz emanating from Tauranga, New Zealand once again, as Grown Downz and Super Narco Man member Joel Burgin has released a quick follow up to his previous lockdown-induced EP. Secretor is a four track bedroom-punk released that, to quote the musician, was “recorded on my iPhone using an app called Four Track.“ …
Watch: Ela Minus – “they told us it was hard, but they were wrong”
Colombia-born/raised and Brooklyn-based Ela Minus has come the latest to join the revered ranks at Domino recently, with her downtempo electronic music has captured the attention not only of fans but purists alike; overjoyed Minus’ work is all hardware-based than software-based. Her debut single, “they told us it was hard, but they were wrong“, came out …
Track: Nia Wyn – Who Asked You.
Fresh from releasing her debut EP Love I Can’t Ruin in February, UK soul artist Nia Wyn has released her brand new single “Who Asked You“. Focused on dealing with negative energy from people with unwelcome opinions, especially about the stigma around mental illness and naysayers doubting your aspirations of leaving a small town and …
Track: Erland Cooper – Peedie Breeks.
ERLAND COOPER has shared the video for the latest track to be released from Hether Blether, the third and final album in his triptych of albums shaped by the Orkney islands where he grew up. Named after the local dialect for “short trousers”, meaning children, “Peedie Breeks’ is a song about the need to preserve our coastlines …
Track: The James Dean Driving Experience – Sean Connery
Optic Nerve Recordings have been carefully curating a reissue series of 7″ records from late last year, and come May 15th are set to release the next in this pantheon of late ’80s alternative music. “Sean Connery” was originally released in 1990 by The James Dean Driving Experience and would be the 4th and final …
Watch: GLOWS – Easy
South London experimental artist GLOWS returned with his new single ”Easy“ last month via Slow Dance, and is now unveiling the accompanying music video. A perfect distillation of the “post-club, bedroom-pop” sound he has been honing since emerging on the scene with PERLA back in 2018, the charm of “Easy” stems from its almost minimalistic structure – building up …