See: Dave + Sam reveal new video for ‘Til The World Blow Up’
Taken from the album No Shade, (Classic Music Company) which we were hugely taken with upon its release back in March, Dave + Sam have returned with a new video for the track ‘Til The World Blow Up’ featuring Mike Dunn. With a mission to create music and visual art that challenges the status quo, …
See: Wicketkeeper release new video for single ‘The Side’
London/Margate Trio Wicketkeeper have released a new video for their single The Side, taken from their upcoming debut LP Shonk, out on October 16th via Meritorio Records. Of the track, the bands simon describes it as “Have you ever seen someone in a crowd and recognised them, but then realised it’s because they look like …
Premiere: Killer Whale release new video and single ‘Drop Out’
Taken from their forthcoming album ‘Tastes Like Yesterday’, out via Devil in the Woods Records on September 18th, we’re delighted to premiere the new single and video from Louisiana’s Killer Whale right here on Backseat Mafia. After spending time in New Orleans, the band drew on the likes of Dirty Projectors, even Unknown Mortal Orchestra, …
Premiere: Fever Queen release new single,’Charmer’
Fever Queen is the moniker of Chicago based songwriter Eleanor Rose Lee. She’s releasing her debut album, The World of Fever Queen on September 10th via First To Knock, and from it we’re delighted to premiere her new single Charmer. The album draws on her experiences working and travelling across America, and contains a couple …
Premiere: BAIRD releases new single, ‘Sunken Place’
London based dance-pop artist BAIRD has today released his international music debut with a single and accompanying video, Sunken Place, and we’re delighted to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. Growing up between Canada, Berlin and London with an Irish background gave BAIRD the opportunity to gather together cultures, influences as well as …
See: TV Coma release new video for single ‘Congratulations’
Brighton based power-pop trio TV Coma have released a new single, Congratulations, recounting a fiery farewell with a former lover, and to go with it they’ve released an accompanying video to go with it. Of the track TV Coma’s vocalist Leo says “It’s about the unexplored paradigms of modern relationships. As the first humans to …
RSD2020: Album Review: Dune Soundtrack
Out on August 29th for Record Store Day is a new pressing of Toto’s score for the 1984 fantasy science fiction film, Dune, the epic tales of a time – 10191 to be exact, when the planet Arrakis – home to the most valuable substance in the universe, melange, has caused the Harkonnens to violently …
EP: Troye Sivan – In A Dream
Fans of Australian singer-songwriter Troye Sivan who have been there from the start will have seen the evolution of an artist, from the early YouTube videos to the early Eps June Haverly and TRXYE. The trilogy of videos from his debut long player Blue Neighbourhood as well as his coming out video have made him an LGBT icon. The second …
Track: Emmy the Great reveals new single ‘Mary’
Following on from the news that Emmy the Great is to release her new album April / 月音 on October 9th via Bella Union, she has followed up recent single Dandelions / Liminal with a new track, Mary. Of the track Emmy says: “Mary is named for a Hong Kong fortune teller I met in Kowloon, who gave me the wrong fortune …
Track: WaqWaq Kingdom, aka DJ Scotch Egg & KiKi Hitomi, reveal new track – Positive Sound
Japanese electronic royalty Shigeru Ishihara (DJ Scotch Egg / Seefeel) and Kiki Hitomi (ex-King Midas Sound) have teamed up for a new EP, Dokkoisho, under their WaqWaq Kingdom moniker – out on 18th September via Phantom Limb. From it the pair have released a new track, Positive Sound. Dokkoisho is a Japanese word, an informal interjection roughly equivalent to …