TRACK: Adulkt Life – ‘County Pride’: Huggy Bear and Male Bonding types combine for a righteous thrash
ADULKT LIFE is the new project of Chris Rowley, formerly of the brilliant riot grrrl torchbearers Huggy Bear, who’s got together with John Arthur Webb and Kevin Hendrick of Sub Pop noiseniks Male Bonding. And they’re setting out their manifesto for a nicely noisy indiepop future with their first single, “County Pride”, which is out …
Feature: Andy Tillison of The Tangent takes us through ‘Auto Reconnaissance’ track by track
WHAT started life as a side project – a chance for Andy Tillison, Parallel or 90 Degrees keyboard player, to kick back and explore some other deep musical avenues in the company of like minds – has really taken on a life of its own this past decade. Beginning with the twin-suite sequence of The …
TRACK: Blue Hawaii – ‘Feelin”: slinky deep house from Braids’ Raphaelle
BLUE HAWAII is the project of Raphaelle “Ra” Standell-Preston (also known and loved by us here at Backseat Mafia as the singer with Braids) and Alex “Agor” Kerby, one based in Montreal, the other in Berlin. Distance is no barrier to their creative spark; they’ve been releasing albums well worthy of your ears since the …
NEWS: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah embark on digital reissue mission with extra goodies
ALEC OUNSWORTH, the Philadelphian indie minstrel with such a lovely line in pretty lo-fi, has embarked on a digital reissue campaign of his entire catalogue; he’s gonna be reissuing one album a week from now through to September 18th – each being bolstered by rare or previously unheard bonus tracks, demo takes, B-sides and more. …
Soundtrack Of Our Lives: Paul Molloy
PAUL MOLLOY is something of a psychedelic pop gentleman around town. He wielded six strings in a later incarnation of The Zutons, who of course gave us that song for Amy Winehouse to conquer just about everything with. He’d come up through the Liverpudlian scene ranks, having previously being a member of both cult buzz …
SEE: Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard: ‘Double Denim Hop’: a trash-glam cracker with its thumbs in its front pockets
OK, what you need to know about breaking Welsh quartet Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard is: they’re a lot of glam-trash fun, with a way with a solid, twelve gold bars boogie that sits right on your hips and sticks its thumbs in your johnny pockets. They’ve shared the video for “Double Denim Hop”, a neon-framed infomercial …
SEE: Watch the video for Kevin Morby’s ‘Campfire’; new album for Dead Oceans; live stream ‘tour’
KANSAS’ favourite guitar-wielding son, Kevin Morby, who’s delighted us over the past seven years with five rather lovely solo albums, has announced his sixth full-length set will hit the racks on October 16th – and has released a video for the lead track,, “Campfire”. Watch it with us. With last year’s Oh My God at …
SEE: Tunng’s ‘A Million Colours’ as they look to the final curtain on new album and podcast
IT’S SOMETHING that comes to us all … hopefully later than rather sooner. Yes, death; something that’s been shoved into our purview a little harder than usual during 2020, what with all of it; but it isn’t necessarily a subject you’d expect a rather blissful and lauded folktronica act to get deeply involved in. But …
SEE: Tomberlin – ‘Wasted’: evocative rootsiness trails October Saddle Creek EP
SADDLE CREEK’S Tomberlin, who delighted the ears of those who found her on her seductive 2018 debut LP At Weddings, has announced a new EP for late October. And in a come-hither for the forthcoming Projections EP, which Alex G produced, she’s released the video for one of the five tracks, “Wasted”: watch with us, …
NEWS: Max Cooper announces immersive experience for Camden Roundhouse
BRITISH IDM supremo Max Cooper has announced he is staging another of his immersive, enveloping audio-visual shows – this time at the legendary Camden Roundhouse. After his critically praised previous event at the capital’s Barbican last year, Yearning For The Infinite, in which he delivered “the experience of drowning in the sea of information, using …