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Track: Lushes – Low Hanging Fruit
After their debut album, What Am I Doing, caused some fawning and admiration in almost equal parts, Brooklyn duo Lushes moved on and are back with album number two. Titles Service Industry, it drops on October 16th via Felte, and from it the band have released a new song, Low Hanging Fruit. Equally muscular and …
See: Whisky Stain release video for The Lord’s Revolver
Around since 2011, meeting somewhere between London and Nottingham, and straddling other duos Royal Blood with a touch of Drenge and even a whiff of the much missed (at least by us here at Backseat Mafia) Wet Nuns, Whisky Stain have just released their new single, The Lord’s Revolver on I’m not from London Records. …
Track: Jojee – Think of Anything
We’re a little behind – holidays and all that, but sometimes while trawling through the emails and submissions, you happen upon a little gem. So was the case with Jojee. Following on from her debut single ‘I don’t give a’ comes a new track – ‘Think of Anything’, once again produced by Mickey Valen. It’s …
Live: Tramlines 2015 – 26.7.15 – Crystal Bar/Frog and Parrot – Promenade Cinema / Clubs / Delamere / The Mexanines galleries
We took in a number of bands from the fringe of Sheffield’s Tramlines Festival this year. Over at the Frog and Parrot was Sheffield Synthpop duo Promenade Cinema, aka Emma Barson and Dorian Cramm, who deliver cinematic electronic pop music, as evidenced by their debut single A Chemical Haunting, which you can pick up from …
Live Review: Tramlines 2015, Desperate Journalist – Crystal, 26.7.15 plus Gallery
You’ll know if you read Backseat Mafia regularly, that Desperate Journalist are one of our favourite bands right now. On the back of their debut album, which we awarded 9.9/10 (see here) we take any opportunity to see their raw and incendiary live set, so when we saw they were on at Crystal, Sheffield as part …
Album Review: The Train Set – Never California
In my day,that day being back in the late 80s and early 90s, the home made compilation cassette was the calling card of the young man about town. From subtle messages contained within for potential partners, to an assert action to a new acquaintance that your musical taste marked you out as a person it …
Album Review: This Other Kingdom – Telescopic
Dublin Neo-Psych band This Other Kingdomwill release their debut album ‘Telescopic’ in the UK on August 28th. The album was released in Ireland in April 2015 and charted in the top 10 on iTunes and also featured prominently in the Irish chart. The UK version is set for release on Good Vibrations Records and will …
Tracks: Library Voices – Oh Donna, plus new album details
There was a chance that Canadian indie rockers Library Voices forthcoming third album, Lovish, might never have seen the light of day. A combination of endless touring, exhaustion, and a serious attack in the street on singer/guitarist Carl Johnson which left him with blood pooling on the front of his brain, a severe concussion, an …
Track: Fine Print – Really
Uk duo Fine Print’s debut self-titled EP is out today. The pair, who mix up elements of jazz, soul and electronics have already found favour with previous singles taken from the EP, ‘About You, ‘Can’t Lie’, and ‘Tell Me’. That leaves only Really that’s new, and you can listen to that now. More upbeat than …
New Music: Adir L.C. – New City
Adir L.C. seemingly cut his indie rock teeth in the Glen Rock< new Jersey basements that bred the likes of Titus Andronicus and Real Estate. However, in his new album Oceanside Cities, its tales from his globetrotting nature that fuels the material, as evidenced by the fact it was written in multiple cities and recorded ...