Album Review: Soft Covers – Soft Serve; charming Australian jangle purveys debut long player
If an indie pop record with a DIY aesthetic is the sort of affair that floats your boat, then you need to jump on the debut record from Melbourne based Soft Covers, out right now via Hidden Bay and Little Lunch cassette and vinyl respectively. After homing skills in bands such as Dumb Things, People …
Track: Actress release brilliant double sided single Its Me ( g 8 ) / Oway ( f 7) from forthcoming album on Ninja Tune
Out on November 3rd via the ever brilliant Ninja Tune imprint comes a new double sided single from Actress (Darren Cunningham), and the next instalment in his ‘LXXXVIII’ album, with a chess inspired “Its Me ( g 8 ) / Oway ( f 7), and follows on from his recent ‘Push Power ( a 1 …
Track: Glasgow rockers Lucid Sins hark back to the classics with new single ‘Take Me With You’
Glasgow’s occult rockers Lucid Sins are back with a new single ‘Take Me With You’,ahead of the release of their third album ‘Dancing In the dark’, which drops on October 27th via Totem Cat Records. Of the track, which features Dunbarrow frontman Espem Anderson on vocals, the band say “In a smoky tavern in a …
News: The Professionals announce extensive UK tour, and double vinyl repress of ’What in the World’ and ‘SNAFU’
The Professionals, the outfit formed by Paul Cook and Steve Jones out of the ashes of the Sex Pistols, have announced a bunch of UK dates as part of their Back and Better Tour 2023. Still led from his drum chair by Cook, he’s joined by Jones’ long term replacement Tom Spencer, alongside Dean Croney …
Track: Legendary Brighton indie pop outfit The Popguns roar back with new and brilliant EP – Popism
Those of us of a certain vintage will remember the The Popguns, and the 90s band of some repute are back with a new single/ep ‘Popism’, that shows they’ve lost none of their melodic exuberance in the intervening couple of decades or so. The fact that Matinee Records- purveyors of fine indie and jangle pop, …
Soundtrack of our lives: Queens based artist Will Kaplan give us his picks as his TransBorder Art residency begins
New Jersey born, Queens based artist Will Kaplan crosses boundaries of mediums, techniques and text to create his work. Exploring hemmed nature reserves growing up he focused on tensions between the organic and the human made in his work. As well as creating, Will writes about the NYC art scene and the work of other …
Track: Newcastle’s TV Death release the glorious garage punk of Village Mentality, along with new video; check it out here
Newcastle garage punks TV Death are back with a new single, Village Mentality, taken from their EP ‘The God, The One and The Devil’, which is out on November 24th. Off the track, the band say, “Village Mentality’s character embodies the mindset to blindly believe everything you see in the media. During the time of writing …
Track: Hamburg outfit Mint Mind Release the glorious shoegaze shuffle of Glow
We love Tapete Records here at Backseat Mafia. Don’t even get me started on the injustice that The Elephants weren’t massive. And they’ve another winner on their hands here in the form of Hamburg based indie rock outfit Mind Mind, and their new single Glow. It’s taken from the bands forthcoming third album ‘VG+’, out …
Album Review: False Hope For The Savage – False Hope For The Savage; Cardiff band produce a glittering self titled album of yearning post-rock.
Cardiff post-rock outfit False Hope For The Savage released their debut self titled album back in August, but with the physical release now out, we took the opportunity to take a closer look (and listen) to the album that has set tongues wagging. Containing seven songs written, rehearsed and refined between 2017 and 2020, when …
Live Review: David A Jaycock / Cracked Hands – Bishops House, Sheffield 24.09.2023
It was hard to believe there was anything going on at Bishops House at all when I arrived (admittedly, late- it being my first time there and estimating set times etc), with the 15th century house on the edge of a park in Sheffield shrouded in darkness and with no audible noise emanating from it. …