Music
Album review: Justin Townes Earle – Absent Fathers
‘Wish I could say I know you/’cause lord, I Wanna Understand/Need you to now there’s nothing I want more in this world as a man.’ If you kick off you latest album with those words, and then call it Absent Fathers, then you are pretty clearly laying out your agenda. Justin Townes Earle is the …
New music: First Aid Kit “Master Pretender”
First Aid Kit make music which sounds like it belongs in the latest cool indie film of the moment. All bouncy backing, soaring strings and vocals which are both endearingly plaintive and beautifully whimsical. Against the somewhat overpopulated marketplace of pop folk, First Aid Kit manage to stand out for a number of reasons: firstly, they …
Track: OOFJ release the ethereal electro-indie of I Forgive You
Listening to OOFJ makes me want to slip into a silk paisley dressing gown, light up a pipe and watch some burlesque. And in this, ‘I Forgive You’, the third single from this eclectic duo, they introduce a sense of epic foreboding into the sensuous delight, accentuated by a prowling, insistent bass drone that installs a …
See: Halestorm release new visuals for Apocalyptic
With the band’s third studio album ‘Into The Wild Life’ coming in April, Halestorm have recently released the video for the first single from their forthcoming album. ‘Apocalyptic’ is a simple but effective video not only showing their capabilities as a live act but also their personalities for a striking and energetic video. Frontwomen Lzzy …
Album Review: The Primitives – Galore (expanded reissue)
One of the highlights of my student days in London was getting a ticket to a hot new band called The Primitives at the much missed Astoria. The NME (remember them- if not, ask your dad) loved them and it seemed every student was wearing a T-shirt with cool singer Tracy Tracy’s image on it. …
EP: Emmy The Great – S
Out yesterday was the new EP from singer-songwriter Emma-Lee Moss, aka Emmy the Great. Moving on from her two albums to date, First Love and Virtue which showed her to be a master of the one liner, although not for comic effect, more as a spokesperson for broken and lonely hearts. Although the new EP, …
Live Review: Mark Lanegan Band – Trades Club, Hebden Bridge 24.01.2015
One word immediately springs to mind battling through the crush of bodies towards the stage tonight: oversold. The Trades Club is heaving to capacity on this Saturday night of the Heavenly Records weekend and the suspicion is that the huge demand for entrance has somehow overwhelmed the usually strict, but fair, security measures. I mark …
Meet: we interview Perth singer-songwriter Peyton
Backseat Mafia were recently impressed by the debut single, New York Era, from Perth’s Peyton. So impressed that we fired a few questions to singer/songwriter Peyton Sears to find out more: Where does the name Peyton come from? My full name is Peyton Sears. I was originally considering going under another name but I just thought Peyton …
News: The Selecter announce tour dates and details of new album.
1980 was the year I first properly got into music. Not quite in my teens I’d received a stereo radio cassette player for my birthday and a wedge of Boots vouchers, (sounds shit today, but at the time most Boots had a semi-decent music department; as well as a chemist???). With those vouchers and a …
Meet: A Talk With Jakob Skott
Way back in July of 2014 I was lucky enough to sit down and pick the brain of Causa Sui drummer and sound wizard Jakob Skott about his excellent albums Doppler and Amor Fati, as well as his work with Causa Sui. We also discussed running his own record label, El Paraiso Records, along with Causa Sui guitarist Jonas …