Album Review: Gum Country – ‘Somewhere’
The debut album from the duo of Courtney Gavin (The Courtneys) and multi-instrumentalist Connor Mayer, is released via Bandcamp on June 19th. The album is a buzz of fuzz, feedback ricocheting off of walls and eardrums a plenty, Garvin’s open-tuned guitar has a warmness reminiscent of The Breeders and Mayer’s accompaniment is the perfect compliment …
Album Review: Doomshakalaka – Doomshakalaka
Rafferty has constructed a collection of ten songs that work as both a great piece of work but also a piece of archive material as he looks back on his life in and around music starting with the album opener ‘One Last Saturday Night’ a song he originally wrote in 2011 about the feeling of …
Track: Blue River – ‘Tetsuo’
Out this Friday from These Bloody Thieves Records, the new single from Cornwall band Blue River with Tetsuo. We are thrilled to host this track ahead of release. The track is a powerful stomping shot of rock and roll adrenaline. Taken from the Japanese for ‘clear thinking man’ the track the band states is about …
Album Review: Katie Malco ‘Failures’
The debut album by UK based singer-songwriter Katie Malco. The much anticipated debut by Katie Malco, Failures, is released by 6131 records, and is both a personal soul-bearing record and an album about the power of connecting with relationships; marking this out as a record of this time and by this time. The ten song …
Meet: Doomshakalaka aka Paul Rafferty ahead of his album release
One of our favourite tracks of the year here on Backseat Mafia has been ex-Hot Club De Paris bassist / singer Paul Rafferty’s tracks One Last Saturday Night in his new guise – Doomshakalaka. Its a gorgeous slice of life affirming indie rock, and with his album out next week (June 5th) via Moshi Moshi, …