ALBUM REVIEW: Yung – ‘Ongoing Dispute’
Ongoing Dispute is is an album of maturity and fittingly, a grower with each listen
TRACK: Mint Julep – ‘Black Maps’
Announced less than a year after their last album release, Stray Fantasies, which came out in January 2020, Mint Julep return in March with a new album entitled In A Deep And Dreamless Sleep, via Western Vinyl. That album was a kaleidoscopic and dreamy concoction of shoegaze wonder, from album opener “Blinded” to the disco-tinged …
Premiere: Piqued Jacks release the glorious alt-rock of ‘Golden Mine’
Out tomorrow (27th November) is the brand new single from Italian outfit Piqued Jacks. Called Golden Mine, it’s a track of rich aplomb from a band who are seeking to make themselves very much heard, and we’re delighted to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. Whilst earlier single ‘Every Day Special’ featured ear …
ALBUM REVIEW: Anna McClellan – ‘I Saw First Light’
While this may be her third album, you get the feeling this is merely the tip of the iceberg and there is so much more in terms of potential and ability at her disposal
SEE: Robbie & Mona ‘Wallpaper’: hazy Bristolian dreampop
FOLLOWING the announcement of another lockdown, the dreampop duo Robbie and Mona are happy to announce the delayed release of their debut album, EW, out on January 29th via Spinny Nights. And they’re teasing for it today with the video for the single drop, “Wallpaper”. The partnership of William Carkeet and Eleanor Gray, Robbie & …
SEE: Prints in the Snow – ‘Killing Me’
THE NEW single from four-piece Prints In The Snow is a haunting hit for this time of Hallowe’en. The track is what you would expect from a four-piece who have seemingly been summoned from the mid-1990s’ heyday of BritPop: energetic guitars, ferocious drums and powerful vocals make for a barnstorming tune. The four-piece hail from …
New track: David Nance ‘My Love, the Dark and I’
Brand new single release from American rocker. FFO: My Morning Jacket, Neil Young, The new single comes a month ahead of his album release ‘Staunch Honey’ from Trouble in Mind Records on November 13th. Nance turned many heads in 2018 with his release of ‘Peace and Slightly Pulverised’ a pulsating blast of old fashioned spit …
SEE: Robbie & Mona – ‘Fidelity’: eerie dream pop from Pet Shimmers project
“FIDELITY” is the new single by the duo Pet Shimmers’ side project, Robbie and Mona. Hailing from Bristol, Robbie & Mona is the pseudonym for the pairing of William Carkeet and Eleanor Gray, two members of the esteemed Pet Shimmers. It’s an outlet for their surreal, psychedelic pop, seemingly transmitted straight from a David Lynch …
TRACK: Crawford Mack – ‘A Love I Can’t Live Up To’
CRAWFORD MACK is back with a new single, “A Love I Can’t Live Up To”, following his brace of recent single releases, “Depends On Where You Stand’ and “Firing Squad” Again mixing his influences across the musical spectrum from jazz to pristine pop to classical, he’s once more crafted a song which is both effortlessly …
TRACK: Jesse Markin’s ‘Stars In Your Eyes’ is shimmering Finnish folk-soul
JESSE MARKIN is your new favourite artist. Liberian born, Jesse was raised in Finland and was the only black boy in the village; he found escapism in American hiphop and television – the English language clicked with him more than Finnish. He released his debut album, FOLK, in 2019, which garnered him Newcomer of the …